Please help me get my sister off my back !

[Megran]

Oops, many apologies. Must concentrate.
Megran

[JenB]

There is a Minnie Ritchie b. Holbeck Free BMD (v.9b, p.307) Sept. Q 1905
Could that be her?  perhaps she fibbed about her age??
Twilight

I think she died in 1906. Minnie Hardie Ritchie, 0, 1st q. 1906, Holbeck 9b 206

[carol8353]

Maybe Minnie was illegitimate(born with mum's maiden name) and just took on her step dad's surname?

[Flattybasher9]

The closest I can get is an Irene Minnie Ritchie, born 23rd November 1910, died December 1976 in Chelmsford, Essex, England.

Regards

Malky

Added, I have also found, Minnie Ritchie, born September 1910, Limavady, unfortunately, she died in the same month of birth.

Minnie Ritchie, born March 1912, Belfast.

[Nick29]

Thanks to all that have taken the time to research this 

Minnie Ritchie (Sleigh) was married again in 1942 to Joseph Taylor, so she would have died as Minnie Taylor.

I wish I could lay my hands on Minnie's first marriage certificate, but there's no trace of a first marriage in England/Wales/Ireland.

I think the only way forward with this is for my brother-in-law to apply for his father's army records, in the hope that there's something in there 

[carol8353]

I wish I could lay my hands on Minnie's first marriage certificate, but there's no trace of a first marriage in England/Wales/Ireland.

Maybe they never actually did marry Nick 

Shame that she married a Taylor,with a more unusual surname we might be able to work backwards from her death.

That's providing she didn't actually marry again for the 'third' time!

[Nick29]

I wish I could lay my hands on Minnie's first marriage certificate, but there's no trace of a first marriage in England/Wales/Ireland.

Maybe they never actually did marry Nick 

Well, that's possible, I suppose, but why should both Harold Leslie Sleigh and Minnie Ritchie say they were divorced on their second marriages ? 

[baggygenes]

This maybe just a massive coinkydink
 but
theres a George Ritchie marrying a Pollie Clayton in 1916 Aston
and theres a Harold Sleigh marrying a Clayton in stockport 1936 (although first name is lily)
I'm wondering if a)Minnie is a middle name/known name and b) whether she was born pre Clayton/Ritchie marriage so was a Clayton and married as such
this would seem odd to divorce as a nee ritchie but marry as a clayton but well frankly I've seen stranger things turn up on certificates etc

[Nick29]

That's another possibility - thanks for that 

It has run through my mind that there may have been a clerical error somewhere, but not being able to find the first marriage, and not being able to find any children born as Sleigh with a mother's maiden name of Ritchie, seems to suggest that maybe these events did not happen in England or Wales ?