Charles Minter

1772 - 1831  (59 years)

• Name	Charles Minter
  Birth	1772	Folkestone, Kent   [1]
  Christening	21 Nov 1777	Folkestone, SS Mary & Eanswyth, Kent   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	809
  _UID	363D448F14E84091AD8DE3E8A2CB4B3C0C47
  Death	6 Jun 1831	Liverpool, Lancashire
  Burial	10 Jun 1831	Low Hill Cemetery, Everton, Lancashire   [2]
  Notes	Charles's death was announced in the Kentish Gazette Tuesday 14 Jun 1831: "Death: at Liverpool, on the 6th instant, Mr Chas. Minter, aged 58 years, son of the late Michael Minter esq. of Folkestone." The following is somewhat speculative. It appears that after his wife Margaret died Charles found his way to Liverpool and married again. The source for this is www.lan-opc.org.uk (website for Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks), which has the marriage by licence at St Nicholas, Liverpool on 21 December 1801 between Charles Minter, gentleman of Folkestone, Kent, and Sarah JOSEPH, minor of Liverpool. The same website has the burial on 10 June 1831 at Low Hill Cemetery, Everton, Lancs of Charles Minter, 57 of Christian Street, who died of consumption. The grave number is 3306. These items seems unarguably to relate to this Charles Minter. The story then gets less certain. The Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks website has the marriage by licence on 28 February 1829 at St Nicholas, Liverpool of John Ducrow, gentleman, and Eleanor Minter, spinster. John Ducrow was famous in the 1820s and early 1830s as a clown in Astley's Theatre. His brother Andrew was equally well-known and there is much about them on the web. John Ducrow died of consumption in 1834. In 1838 his widow Eleanor married Benjamin Stickney, an equestrian who had worked for Andrew Ducrow. This marriage is on Ancestry. Eleanor Ducrow is described in the marriage register as of full age, a widow, father Charles Minter, officer on the army, deceased. It is surely no coincidence that Eleanor's first marriage took place in the same church in Liverpool that Charles Minter married in 1801, or that when Eleanor married for a second time she gave her father's name as Charles Minter. There are two pieces of information that would settle the issue, firstly a record of Eleanor's birth/baptism and secondly confirmation that Charles Minter was in the army. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find either of these. But for the time being I'm assuming that Eleanor was the daughter of Charles Minter and his second wife Sarah JOSEPH.
  Person ID	I809	Folkestone, Kent
  Last Modified	30 May 2014

  
  

  Father	Michael Minter,   b. Bef 8 May 1738, Folkestone, Kent d. 27 Jan 1795, Folkestone, Kent (Age ~ 56 years)
  Mother	Margaret CAUSEY   d. 17 Jul 1797, Folkestone, Kent
  Marriage	3 Nov 1759	Folkestone, Kent   [1]
  	From original St Mary and St Eanswyth Folkestone Parish Register, examined by Cliff Minter February 2006, Michael Minter batchelor and Margaret Causey spinster both of this parish, by banns. Both signed. Witnesses Solomon Harvey Jnr and Jane Minter both signed.
  Family ID	F275	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret OVENDEN,   b. Bef 26 Jan 1773, Tenterden, Kent d. 20 Apr 1797, Tenterden, Kent (Age ~ 24 years)
  Marriage	24 Oct 1794	Tenterden, Kent   [1]
  	Tenterden Parish Register, March 2006. Charles Minter of Folkestone and Margaret Ovenden of this parish by licence. Sign/sign. (Ph) Ovenden (sign) Robert Avery Webb (sign) witnesses. Married as a bachelor grazier of Folkestone; Margaret a spinster of Tenterden. The marriage was announced in th Kentish Register, October 1794: "At Tenterden, Mr Charles Minter (son of Michael Minter esq. of Folkestone) to Miss Ovenden."
  Children	1. Michael Minter,   b. 25 May 1796, Tenterden, Kent d. Bef 22 Oct 1827, Tenterden, Kent (Age 31 years)
  Family ID	F282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2014

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah JOSEPH
  Children	1. Eleanor Minter,   b. Abt 1814   d. Bef 10 Oct 1850, Lambeth RD (Age ~ 36 years)
  Family ID	F532	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 May 2014

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1772 - Folkestone, Kent Christening - 21 Nov 1777 - Folkestone, SS Mary & Eanswyth, Kent Marriage - 24 Oct 1794 - Tenterden, Kent Death - 6 Jun 1831 - Liverpool, Lancashire  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S13] IGI & Cliff Minter. [S197] www.lan-opc.org.uk, May 2014, grave no. 3306. (Reliability: 3).