Alexander Minter

1830 - 1850  (20 years)

• Name	Alexander Minter
  Birth	30 Mar 1830	Rochester, Kent
  Christening	23 Apr 1830	St Margarets, Rochester, Kent
  Gender	Male
  _UID	A62BE4F0F8A24FB68E3C501201109EB0CF0D
  Death	21 Dec 1850	Calcutta, India
  Burial	22 Dec 1850	Calcutta, India   [1, 2]
  Notes	Educated at Kings School, Parramatta, NSW, Australia in 1840 - 42*. Officer in school Army Cadet Force. Lieutenant in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot. Died of cholera at Fort William, Calcutta, India. July 2015: I'm not sure where these years came from but The Kings School Register (copy of page supplied by Tim Kendall via Helen Connell) shows 1844-45. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, May 5." Times [London, England] 6 May 1848: 7.: "18th Regiment of Foot. - Ensign Alexander Minter to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Jones, who retires; Thomas Robinson Gibbons, gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Minter." From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, March 28." Times [London, England] 29 Mar. 1851: 4.: "18th Regiment of Foot. - Ensign John Edward Swindley to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Minter, deceased; Ensign Arthur Henry Thistlethwayte, from the 97th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Swindley." Buried aged 20, a lieutenant in HM 18th or Royal Irish Regiment.
  Person ID	I575	Canterbury, Kent
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	George Minter,   b. 15 Nov 1790, Butchery Lane, Canterbury d. 5 Apr 1871, Keswick House, Whiteladies Road, Bristol (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Emma Minter,   b. Bef 4 Nov 1798, Sittingbourne, Kent d. 19 Feb 1876, Whiteladies Road, Bristol (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	21 Jun 1824	St Andrews, Canterbury   [3]
  	Married by licence as a bachelor of St Andrews, Canterbury, a lieutenant in the 45th Regiment. His wife Emma was a widow - the sixth daughter of his father's younger brother.
  Family ID	F13	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 30 Mar 1830 - Rochester, Kent Death - 21 Dec 1850 - Calcutta, India Burial - 22 Dec 1850 - Calcutta, India  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S144] Burials in the Archdeaconry of Calcutta, Findmypast, May 2014. [S174] British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns at findmypast.co.uk. [S17] Cliff Minter.