Elizabeth Minter

Bef 1770 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Elizabeth Minter
  Birth	Bef 2 Dec 1770	Eyke, Suffolk
  Christening	2 Dec 1770	Eyke, Suffolk   [1]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	C1274D60281140859AFC533FBD5AD48A304C
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	There has been some uncertainty about Elizabeth's story. At one time it was thought that she was baptised and buried on the same day, 2 December 1770. Further investigation resulted in the following comments in correspondence with Graham Minter. 1. Graham Minter to me, 20 August 2012: I forgot to cover Elizabeth Minter in my comments. You may recall that you had her as baptised and buried in Eyke on the same day, 2-12-1770. That in itself is unlikely, but then you found a marriage of an Elizabeth Minter in Eyke on 9 July 1795. I've checked the records and there is indeed a burial of Elizabeth on 2-12-1770 and she is the daughter of John and Sarah. However, there is no baptism record on that date and I assume that someone read the burial record and mistook it for a baptism one. I have not found a baptism record for Elizabeth from an earlier date. I did not search for one this time, but have looked for (and found) children of John and Sarah in both the Eyke and the Campsea Ash records in the past, but no Elizabeth. As for the Elizabeth who married in 1795, she could be unrelated, or John and Sarah could have had another daughter, whom they also named Elizabeth, sometime after 1770. In the absence of any evidence of a link, I am inclined to the former as John and Sarah were getting on by that stage, I have found no record of a baptism record and there is no evidence of them moving away from Eyke at that time. 2. Me to Graham Minter, 25 September 2012: I went to the library today to have another look at Stella [Herbert]'s fiche covering 1770 baptisms and burials. I totally agree with you: there is an entry for the «u»burial«/u» of Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah Minter on 2 December 1770. There is no entry for the baptism of Elizabeth the same day, or indeed in the few years before 1770. My feeling is that the minister made a mistake and wrote 'buried' instead of 'baptised'. It wouldn't have been difficult to make this mistake - this was a mixed register and the entry before Elizabeth's is for a burial. I also think that the 1795 marriage of Elizabeth Minter and William Cook, which was witnessed by William and Matthew Minter, was very likely of the Elizabeth baptised on 2 December 1770 (ie John & Sarah's daughter). As you say, it seems unlikely, because of Sarah's age, that John and Sarah had a second daughter called Elizabeth. Would you be agreeable to adopting 2 Dec 1770 as Elizabeth's baptismal date and 9 Jul 1795 as her marriage (to William Cook) date? The upshot of the above is that we have agreed, pending further investigation, to adopt the suggestion in the final paragraph above.
  Person ID	I26	Eyke, Suffolk
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2015

  
  

  Father	John Minter,   b. Bef 24 Aug 1718, Marlesford, Suffolk d. Bef 25 Mar 1801, Eyke, Suffolk (Age ~ 82 years)
  Mother	Sarah WHITTLE,   b. 1727   d. Bef 6 Nov 1792, Eyke, Suffolk (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	15 Nov 1752	Campsea Ash, Suffolk   [2]
  Family ID	F8	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William COOK
  Family ID	F134	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2012

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Bef 2 Dec 1770 - Eyke, Suffolk Christening - 2 Dec 1770 - Eyke, Suffolk  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S62] Eyke Parish Register on fiche, July 2012. [S3] IGI.