McMinn Mystery Deepens...

[Jimbole]

Isanyone interested in the family tree of RSM McMinn after 1900 and up to the present day.  I can give much of it (from my father) and some that is missing.

[BallyaltikilliganG]

i am not sure if something in this note helps or not
amongst 111  McMinn listed in peoples trees on Genes Reunited are
George CharlesMcMinn   1869   Clonmel, Tipperary, ...   No   Lesley
William   McMinn   1868   Don'T Know, Tipperar...   No   Lesley   
Alexander    McMinn   1861   Tipperary, Scotland ...   No   Lesley   
Alexander   McMinn   1860   Tipperary Scotland ...   No   Stuart   A
lexander   McMinn   1860   Clonmel, Tipperary, ...   No   Jennifer
Alexander   McMinn   1807   Tipperary, Ireland ...      No   Mary

re GR British Army Service Recordsmore details about £11 each after you join
Alexander McMinn 1798  no birth locationEighteenth Regiment Of (Light) Dragoons
Alexander McMinn 1807 Kircudbright   GUNNER & DRIVER Royal Artillery
Alexander McMinn 1835 Burgh discharged Corporal Royal Artillery
Alexander McMinn 1860 Clonmel no rank
Alexander J. McMinn 1860 Clonmel no rank Royal Artillery Sergeant in 1891 census married living  in Folkstone Mary wife aged 20, Katharine aged 1 . Matilda Adelaide 8 months.  In 1901 Alexander john is living alone in New Monkland Lanarkshire  as
Papermaker's Timekeeper Also Serving As Royal Reservist Sergeant 132nd Batt R F A, Also in 1901 Mary b maryhill  lanarkshire now has Elizabeth b 1892,  Alexander John b1894, Wm b 1896, and Albert b 1900
Alexander McMinn 1869 Cropmichael no rank no Regiment given
George Alexander McMinn 1881 Woolwich 1881 Royal Artillery

[Jimbole]

I believe that Alexander J McMinn, late of 132 Bty RA was my great grandfather.  My grandmother was born in Maryhill Barracks where Alexander was a Sergeant Major. MY grandmother married David (Pop) Bole and they moved to Airdrie in Lanarkshire, where my father (David), Alexander (Sandy), Jimmy and Mary were born. Pop was an undertaker in the town.
Mary - served in the WRENS (at Bletchley Park), married and passed on, but has one surviving daughter.  She was a McMinn-McGrath before her marriage from the days when you could change your name with ease

Jimmy - joined the RAF and served with with a joint UK/Can squadron (one of the Bison Squadrons) before being commissioned and later joining the SAAF where he was sadly killed at the end of the war.  Survived by his son David (my cousin) who became a leading Neuro-surgeon

Sandy - still going strong, has a son and daughter, still lives in Airdrie

David (my dad) now 87 and still going strong (although he falls of his bicycle occasionally). Mum still going at 89 and I have 2 sisters, all three of us rapidly approaching the age where we should consider taking life a little easier. 

My father said last week that the McMinn side of the family all came from Clonmel, my great great grandfather being a site manager for one of the big wealthy estates in the area.  I will endeavour to ask him how much more he has found out.

Of course we are all Bole's now but the Scottish side of the family is lamentably small now.

We still have and still use, one of the woollen covers that the large rolls of paper used to be wrapped in, an hand-me-down from my great grandfather.