Stirling Minor/ Sterling Miner

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

The Qld Early Pioneers Index has the first for Sterling Minor as 20th January 1844 with a reference number.  Hopefully I will be going to the Brisbane State Library on Friday and I'll see if I can check this reference on microfilm.

There are also other references up to 1856.

Gerry

[wivenhoe]

From QLD BDM, and refining time frame  -

BBP 2310 1854 MINOR Edward   b. 14 Aug 1845
BBP 2082 1854 MINOR Harriett   b. 19 Dec  1853

Tree online has
2154/1871  DAVIS Christopher  m.  MINNER Harriett                 FORBES

births to this couple include
13510/1877  DAVIS Sterling  C M parents  Christopher / Harriett        HAY

same tree  - death
8822/1876  MINOR Margaret E   parents John /  Catherine           WALLSEND

that death certificate would be useful for children born to Margaret.

[Middie01]

Do you have a birth certificate for Sarah?  That is something I have been unable to track down.  Her marriage cert. and death cert. give her mother as Josephine and this is what I have been trying to track down.  I'm building up quite a dosier on Sterling but getting no answers to my puzzle. I am a Ludlow descendant, Sarah and Edmund were my great grandparents. 
Bette

[judb]

Hi Marcia

You also asked about Edmund John LUDLOW, Sarah's husband.  Following on from the info given in the obit posted by Essie:
FreeBMD has this birth (Clifton is part of the City of Bristol now)
Dec qr 1849   
Edmund John LUDLOW, registered Clifton    Vol 11 p293

1851 at 4 Seymour? Place, Bristol
Edmond Ludlow   32, b Bristol, clerk, ale and porter brewery and xxx(illegible) malthouse
Mary Ludlow   34, b Englishcombe, Somerset
Mary Ludlow   8
Eliza Ludlow   6
Edmund John Ludlow   1
Emily Jane Ludlow   1 Mo
Ann Ancel   14, servant

1861 at Lower Easton, Bristol (seems his father has remarried - and taken a few years off his age!  FreeBMD has a death registered in Clifton for a Mary LUDLOW and a marriage for Edmund LUDLOW to Grace Mendham, reg Bath 1859)
Edmund Ludlow   35, wine merchant
Grace Ludlow   25
Mary Ludlow   16
Eliza Ludlow   14
Edmund Ludlow   10
James Ludlow   8
Henry Ludlow   6/12
Emily Woolley   18, servant
John Ludlow   6, son

John Gay LUDLOW is also listed in the 1871 census still with Edmund and Grace.  He marries Emma Jane HILL in 1875 in Bedminster, Somerset and comes to NSW in 1885 with his wife and 5 children.  There is more information about him if you would like it.  Did the brothers keep in touch?

The name "Gay" is from his (and Edmund's) mother's maiden name.  Here is the marriage:
4 February, 1841 at Bristol
Edmund LUDLOW, 22, his father: John LUDLOW
Mary GAY, 22, her father: George GAY

Judith

[Kensi]

Sterling was born in Mohawk New York. His Father was Samuel A Miner who was a cooper, his mother was Polly, both were from Connecticut. Samuel resided in Martinsburg New York until his death in the 1860's. There is a entry for a Samuel Miner of Connecticut having enlisted in the US Army in September 1814, he was struck off the roll in December the same year as he was unfit for duty, it seems he was continually sick from September to November and never saw any 'action'. Sterling left New York on the whaling/sealing ship the Huron and after a very lengthy time at sea collecting Sperm Oil, he deserted the ship when it docked here in Australia.
Sterling is my GG/grandfather and from all accounts quite a character, My GG/grandmother Harriet 'did a runner' from him in the 1850's with her then youngest child (my G/grandfather) in a very public spat that was published in the Sydney Morning Herald.

[Briode McCarthy]

Hi, Sarah Jane Minor and Edmund John Ludlow are my second great grandparents. I have been researching their families and am quite confused! I would love to see your tree and clarify some information! Any help is appreciated. As I believe I May have a few mistakes from what I have gathered!

[Briode McCarthy]

Hello, if anyone is related to or has information on Sterling Minor/ Miner and his family could you please make contact with me jezbs@bigpond.com