Ok
So le'ts try another tack.
That marriage of 1794 James Minton and Mary Adamson.(on FindMyPast)
Let's assume that Mary like her surname suggests is a nice Scottish lass and she wants to name her children in the traditional Scottish naming pattern.
So first daughter after herself ,second after her mother and third after her mother in law.
Her first child is Mary Catherine ,presumably after herself and her mother.The second daughter is therefore after her mother in law.
So any James Minton with a mother called Lucy?
Yes there is
James Minton son of Thomas and Lucy Minton sometimes Ann Lucy baptised at St Martins in the Fields 13.4.1776.
A couple of years out but maybe he wanted to be over 21 when he married in 1795 so he didn't need his parents consent.
Other children Charles 8.11.1763,Susanna 13.1.1766,Nancy 29.12.1769,Catherine Louisa 15.9.1771,Thomas 25.10.1772,John 5.7.1774 and then James 1776.
Thomas Minton dies at Knightbridge in the parish of Kensington (Probate 9th Feb 1793 )and leaves a PCC Will with a nice little surprise.
He is really concerned about his youngest child ,his daughter Frances who must be provided for until she she goes into service.
She must have been born 1776-4.3.1791 when the Will was made.
Thomas wants his lease hold property given up and his household items sold to pay his debts and funeral expenses before going to pay his eldest son Charles 1 shilling and the rest to support his daughter Frances until she goes into service .
Then if there is any money left it is to be divided equally between his children-Ann Catherine Thomas James and Frances.
His executors are his son in law Thomas Simpson and Catherine Minton.
On the 24th a codicil is added giving some furniture to Catherine in compensation for running his business when he was not able to.
Ann Minton married 7.1.1788 Thomas Simpson at St James Piccadily.
I can't find Frances baptism or Thomas or his wife's burial.Not sure where the records for Kensington would be.
There are references to a Thomas Minton of Knightsbridge on the London lives website.
Thomas victualer of the Two Brewers Knightbridge is a witness at the inquest into the death of William Taylor in 1779
His on Thomas junior seems to be enrolled as a carpenter in the Carpenters Guild to a Joseph Yalloway 4.7.1786.
Possible baptism for Thomas senior 31.5.1743 at St Anns Soho s of William and Ann Minton.
Daughter Sarah at St James Westminster 1.10.1739
There is a possible Will for William of Tooley St St Olaves Surrey 1768 again PCC which names his daughter Sarah Hewitson wife of Ralph as chief beneficiary and her daughters Ann and Mary.(who get £20).
Nephew Edward Minton son of brother Edward gets his watch.
Made 17.2.1767.
Sarah married Ralph Edward Hewitson 22.5.1763 at St James Westminster
I'd like to think John Minton of John and Angelique was another son but I can't see a baptism.
What do you think?
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