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This looks like the shoe guy in 1881 - his father is a shoe finisher

Name: William Minney
Age: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1876
Relation: Son
Father's Name: James
Mother's Name: Eliza
Gender: Male
Where born: Rushden, Northamptonshire, England

Civil Parish: Rushden
County/Island: Northamptonshire
Country: England

Street address: Duck Street
Education:

Employment status: View Image
Occupation: Scholar

Registration district: Wellingborough
Sub-registration district: Higham Ferrers
ED, institution, or vessel: 5
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Joseph Barrett 22
Eliza Minney 34
Ellen Minney 8
James Minney 35
James Minney 16
Thomas Minney 10
William Minney 5

James Minney
Age: 35
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Eliza
Gender: Male
Where born: Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England

Civil Parish: Rushden
County/Island: Northamptonshire
Country: England

Street address: Duck Street
Condition as to marriage: Married
Education:

Employment status: View Image
Occupation: Shoe Finisher

Registration district: Wellingborough
Sub-registration district: Higham Ferrers


1891:

Name: James Minney
Age: 45
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Eliza
Gender: Male
Where born: Norths, Yardley Hastings

Civil Parish: Rushden
Town: Rushden
County/Island: Northamptonshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Wellingborough
Sub-registration district: Higham Ferrers
ED, institution, or vessel: 13
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
George Buck 27
Eliza Minney 44
Ellen Minney 19
George W Minney 15
Herbert Minney 7
James Minney 45
James Minney 26
Thomas Minney 20

Hi there, Just chatted to my Mom - (his granddaughter). She says he could have been William Mark rather. Just before he left England he drove trams but she says he was very good with shoes because when in South Africa he had a business in making and repairing shoes.

Hmm, with names like that the marriage search should be easy but nothing showing yet - here is Doris May's birth ref though if you need to buy the certificate:

Births Dec 1907
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MINNEY Doris May Aston 6d 275

What a lovely name. Have to say I cant see a Mark Minney in Brum, but there is a William. Do you know what his occupation was? This guy is a boot cutter
Name: William Minney
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1877
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Northamptonshire, England

Civil Parish: Aston
Ecclesiastical parish: St Matthew
County/Island: Warwickshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Aston
Sub-registration district: Duddeston
ED, institution, or vessel: 23
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 126
Household Members: Name Age
William Minney 24
Harold E Plant 17
Mary A Plant 46





. If we can find the marriage ref you can then buy the cert from GRO for his fathers name and we will know what line to follow.

William Minney was my great grandfather, born abt 1 Feb 1877. He married Lilly (Lillie) Portch born abt 13 Jan 1878. They left the UK with their daughter Doris May Minney born 4 Sept 1907 in Birmingham, for South Africa when Doris was a child.
According to the marriage certificate of William and Lilly his father was also a William Minney.
I need help to expand the Minney line - anyone?