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From: "Patricia O'Shea" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Mary Jane MINCHINGTON
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 23:34:04 +1200
References: <200505020944.j429ikY00437@stiletto.hotkey.net.au>


Hi Donna - this looks like the family in 1861 in Preston:

Henry MINCHINTON 39 Ag lab B Mudford
Mary 34 Working on Farm? B Odcombe
Emily 15 Working on Farm? B Mudford
Sarah 12 Working on Farm? B Ashington
Rosa 10 Glover (Leather) B Mudford Dumb
Charles 9 Bird Keeper B Mudford
Mary Jane 8 months B Yeovil

By 1871 Mary Jane and her mother, now widowed, are lodging in the household
of George Day, Yeovil Marsh.

Mary MINCHINTON Boarder/Wid 48 Glove sewer. B Odcombe
Mary J 10 B Yeovil.

The only other member of the family I can see (I think) is Sarah who is also
lodging in Yeovil and is listed as a Glover, deaf and dumb.

This doesn't shed any light on the disc but hopefully gives you a few more
details, if this is the right family. There is another family in Mudford
with a Mary Jane born in 1860. So if the father's name wasn't Henry let me
know and I'll send the other family (father = Mark)
Cheers, Patsy

<snip>
Perhaps it may help shed some light on the origins if SKS could look up my
> ggrandmothers family in the 1871 census, as I do not know how many
brothers
> or sisters she had, perhaps they were the owner of the medallion. Her
name
> was Mary Jane Minchington (she married William Henry Barge). I do know
that
> in 1881 she was living in Yeovil as a servant, and she was born in Yeovil
in
> 1861. She married there in 1882, her father is listed on the marriage
> certificate as a labourer (deceased), so I don't think that the medallion
> was his?

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