Gerald Richard "Dick" Minter

1915 - 1993  (78 years)

• Name	Gerald Richard "Dick" Minter
  Nickname	Dick
  Birth	12 May 1915	Great Horkesley, Essex   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	43BDEC6535C545CBADA3B4C9E8BECB88210E
  Death	Nov 1993	Sudbury, Essex   [2]
  Notes	According to Neil Minter's chart, Gerald is/was an electrical engineer. 1939 Register: at Treville , Lexden and Winstree R.D., Essex, Minter, Gerald R born 12 May 1915, married, electrician Minter, Kathleen I born 16 Oct 1915, marrried, unpaid domestic duties. Added later: ARP duties. Appears in the 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1963 and 1965 telephone directories at Treville Coach Road, Great Horkesley, telephone number Great Horkesley 327. May 2004: email from Janet Bureau: I remember Dick Minter, his wife and their 2 sons Jeffrey (Geoffrey?) and Alfred. I grew up a few doors away, in Coach Road, Great Horkesley. They were the first family we knew who had a television set, and we watched the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in their house. I am in touch with the daughter of a family who lived opposite who will remember a great deal more than I do. She has never moved away from the area, but I live in Cyprus! May 2010 (after sending Janet Bureau's note to Pauline Taylor) - from Pauline Taylor: "I could not believe my eyes when I saw the name of Janet Bureau. Janet was one of my closest friends when we were schoolchildren and we are still in touch, she was Janet Singleton then and I, of course, was Pauline Russell. I notice that she seems to have forgotten Doug Minter but then it was all a very long time ago. I wonder who the daughter of the family who lived opposite is, I don't remember anyone of our age who lived there but then, although I lived in Coach Road too it is a very long road and my home was nearly a mile away from Janet's. It was interesting to read that Dick had a television at the time of the coronation but I guess that it was something to do with him being an electrician, I think very few people in the village would have had a set then but I can remember being invited to the home of Sir Frederick and Lady Hall to watch the ceremony on their television as Lady Hall thought it so important that I should see it and remember it. I was certainly on my best behaviour that day and I do indeed remember it." May 2010 - more from Pauline Taylor: "Whilst I was searching through [my husband] Roy's notes I found a notebook that contains a diary that he kept when he was an assistant scoutmaster. This is the 'Log of 1953 Camping Tour by the !st Gt Horkesley Boy Scouts' and it includes the names of those scouts who went on the trip all along the south coast to Devon, one of those names is J Minter, so Dick's son Jeffrey must have gone together with my future husband, Roy, his father George Taylor, who was Skip the scoutmaster and my own father who just went along to help! I remember this camping trip very well as my father sent me 'wish you were' here type postcards which I still have."
  Person ID	I475	Great Horkesley, Essex
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Alfred Minter,   b. 30 Mar 1891, Great Horkesley, Essex d. 14 Jul 1969, Great Horkesley, Essex (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Florence Beatrice HONEYBALL,   b. 21 Apr 1882, Somerton, Suffolk d. Dec 1967, Colchester RD (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	16 Apr 1913	Great Horkesley, Essex   [3]
  Family ID	F55	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Kathleen Ida PITTOCK,   b. 16 Oct 1915, Islington RD d. 23 Jan 1995, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	10 Apr 1939	Lexden RD   [4]
  Children	1. Alan Jeffrey Minter   2. Douglas Minter   3. Alfred Minter
  Family ID	F72	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 May 2014

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 May 1915 - Great Horkesley, Essex Death - Nov 1993 - Sudbury, Essex  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Gerald Richard (Dick) Minter born 12 May 1915, Great Horkesley. This photo was taken on 17 June 1967 at an unknown location on the occasion of the wedding of Pauline Appleby, a neighbour of those shown, from left to right:  Alfred Denton Russell and his wife Annie Rosetta (nee Balls) (Pauline Taylor's parents), Dick Minter and his wife Kathleen Ida (nee Pittock).

  
  

• Sources

  [S174] Neil Minter chart. [S178] BMD index, Nov 1993 Sudbury 7521/8F. (Reliability: 3). [S178] BMD index, Q2 1913 Lexden 4a/1265. (Reliability: 3). [S178] BMD index, Q2 1939 Lexden 4a/2599. (Reliability: 3).