Elizabeth MINNS in Devon and Essex

[Richard Knott]

He was on the Cossipore, on its way to Bombay. I think it was a merchant ship. there are two documents, on one he is 2 and the other only 1 (he died of measles/diarrhoea). I rejected him because I didn't think the families of non-officers went out to India. Launcelot was in India from Aug 1857 to Jul 1862, so wasn't home when Edward was born/baptised. (I think he had fourteen drink offences, so wasn't very reliable!)

Genealogically this is of little importance, but I became a little obsessed with what happened to the family and who Elizabeth married!

Richard

[trish1120]

She may not have remarried.

As Lancelot was still alive until 1884 they may have split up and she may be under any name and not able to remarry.

[Richard Knott]

I agree (as mentioned in an earlier post) but they (Eliz/Emily/Edw) must have died/married/emigrated under some surname.

I did find an Emily Minns of the right age who emigrated to the USA in 1890 and married there but she came from Cambridge.

Richard

[Milliepede]

I can see from a family tree that the informant on the death for Lancelot is named as Elizabeth Cunningham of Hexham - do we know who she was?

You have probably checked but were Elizabeth's parents/siblings still around in case she went to one of them? 

[Richard Knott]

I think she ran a boarding house with her father, but Lancelot wasn't there in 1881.

I did look at Elizabeth's mother (father died young), stepfather and siblings; but not very well. I might revisit them.

R