Minter Family In Australia -Introduction - Their English Origins
The surname Minter is an English occupational name for a moneyer, deriving from the old English pre 7th Century "myntere", coming from "mynet" a "coin". The name was originally given to a workman who stamped the coins and later to the supervisors of the mint, i.e.,important members of society who had their names placed on the coins they were responsible for producing.
The surname is first recorded in the early half of the 13th Century. One, John Muneter, is noted in the 1296 Subsidy Rolls of Sussex, and Hamo le Meneter, appears in the 1296 Feet of Fines, of Essex. In the modern idiom, the surname has many variant spellings including Mintor, Mynter, Mintar, Minto, Mento and more.
On February 22nd 1584, the marriage of John Minter and Margery Mulcaster took place at St. Lawrence Pountney, London and Guilielm Minter and Bridgetta Nightingale were married on December 13th 1592 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William le Myntere, which was dated 1221, The Assize Court Rolls of Warwickshire, during the reign of King Henry 111, "The Frenchman", 1216 - 1272. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
Our Australian Minter genealogy began in 1872 when Thomas MINTER married Elizabeth Jane PHILLIPS in South Brisbane. Thomas MINTER was born in 1848 at Duptford, St.Nicholas Kent. Our line of MINTERS are known to have come from Whitstable, Kent. It is believed that Thomas came to Australia in the late 1860's and this research is on going.
In the biographies contained on this site you will discover many families that have become part of the MINTER & PHILLIPS genealogy. In the early history of Queensland and NSW they have been occupied as Stock Farmers, Cane Farmers, Blacksmiths, Miners, Motormen, Labourers, Religious Orders, Soldiers, Midwifery, Shopkeepers, Boat Builders, Sailors, Civil Engineers, Dressmakers and many more, not to mention the home duties and house wives. Read their documented life stories and be proud of their achievements amidst the joy and tragedy of early Australian pioneering life and War.
The surname is first recorded in the early half of the 13th Century. One, John Muneter, is noted in the 1296 Subsidy Rolls of Sussex, and Hamo le Meneter, appears in the 1296 Feet of Fines, of Essex. In the modern idiom, the surname has many variant spellings including Mintor, Mynter, Mintar, Minto, Mento and more.
On February 22nd 1584, the marriage of John Minter and Margery Mulcaster took place at St. Lawrence Pountney, London and Guilielm Minter and Bridgetta Nightingale were married on December 13th 1592 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William le Myntere, which was dated 1221, The Assize Court Rolls of Warwickshire, during the reign of King Henry 111, "The Frenchman", 1216 - 1272. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
Our Australian Minter genealogy began in 1872 when Thomas MINTER married Elizabeth Jane PHILLIPS in South Brisbane. Thomas MINTER was born in 1848 at Duptford, St.Nicholas Kent. Our line of MINTERS are known to have come from Whitstable, Kent. It is believed that Thomas came to Australia in the late 1860's and this research is on going.
In the biographies contained on this site you will discover many families that have become part of the MINTER & PHILLIPS genealogy. In the early history of Queensland and NSW they have been occupied as Stock Farmers, Cane Farmers, Blacksmiths, Miners, Motormen, Labourers, Religious Orders, Soldiers, Midwifery, Shopkeepers, Boat Builders, Sailors, Civil Engineers, Dressmakers and many more, not to mention the home duties and house wives. Read their documented life stories and be proud of their achievements amidst the joy and tragedy of early Australian pioneering life and War.