Family: George Austin Minter / Janet WALKER (F100)

• Male George Austin Minter

  
  

  Birth	9 Apr 1890	24 Margery Park Road, West Ham, Essex
  Christening	16 Apr 1890	Emmanuel, Forest Gate, London
  Death	18 Apr 1970	8 Gainsborough Drive, Westcliff-on-Sea
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  Marriage	26 Dec 1914  [1]	St Matthews, Hammersmith, London  [1]
  Father	Walter John Minter | F27 Group Sheet
  Mother	Ellen Sophie HEWETT | F27 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Janet WALKER

  
  

  Birth	29 Sep 1880	Baildon, Yorkshire
  Death	6 May 1949	Southend on Sea, Essex
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• Notes

  Married: Married by licence. George Austin Minter, 24, bachelor, wholesale furniture maker of 26 Earlham Grove, Forest Gate, London E, father Walter John Minter, patentee. Janet Walker, 33, spinster of 128 Sinclair Road, West Kensington, father Thomas Walker, stuff merchant. Both signed full names. Witnesses Reginald Holmes Walker and W J Minter. George and Janet appear to have gone through two marriage sevices. Graham Minter has two marriage cerificates and there are two marriage registrations. The first marriage took place on 23 July 1914 at Fulham Register Office. The witnesses have no obvious family relationship to the couple. The marriage is in the BMD index in Q3 1914 Fulham 1a/784. The second marriage took place at St Matthew Church, Hammersmith - see above. The marriage is in the BMD index in Q4 1914 Fulham 1a/680. Graham Minter comments as follows: the question of George Austin's two marriage certificates, I understand that, when a couple marry first in a Register Office and later in a church, the minister is not supposed to record the second wedding in the civil register, which suggests that either (a) he made a mistake or (b) he was not told that they had already married in a register office.

  
  

• Sources

  [S28] London Metropolitan Archives at Ancestry.co.uk, October 2009 and later, Q3 1914 Fulham 1a/784. (Reliability: 3).