 1902 - 2004 (101 years)
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| Name |
Minnie Alexandra Frost |
| Birth |
17 Jul 1902 |
Cullompton, Devon  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
2 Apr 1911 |
Cullompton, Devon [2] |
| 1911 census, 4 Pen Y Dre, Higher Street, Cullompton: John Frost 45, Minnie 42, Louisa Gertrude 20, Alice May 17, Reginald John 16, George Clement 14, Frederick James 12, Minnie Alexandra 8 (born Cullompton), Eveline Sarah 6. |
| Death |
Feb 2004 |
East Devon, Devon, England [3] |
| Notes |
- "AUNT MIN". She wrote the family letter (media 495-498, c1977) about the Frost and Parker families. Only pages 2-5 survive, and none of them is signed or dated; her name and the year come from the original captions. She married Sydney H. R. James late in 1946, aged 44, and died in East Devon in February 2004, aged 101.
WHO THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN TO (INFERENCE): probably a grandchild of her eldest sister Louisa Gertrude Frost and Job Bailey. The letter says "If you want to know about your grandfather Bailey, your Mum can tell you", calls the Frosts the reader's great-great-grandparents, and explains "Cousin Frank, now in Adelaide" (Frank Todd Wilson) as if the reader did not know him.
She says she was "only about 4 or 5" when Aunt Gertie died; Gertie died in 1910, when Min was nearly 8.
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| Person ID |
I513974564 |
Walsh - Wilson Family Tree | Marjorie |
| Last Modified |
3 Nov 2026 |
| Father |
John Frost, b. 12 Aug 1865, Taunton, Somerset |
| Mother |
Minnie Parker, b. 13 Jul 1868, Weston Super Mare, Somerset d. Mar 1948, Tiverton, Devon (Age 79 years) |
| Marriage |
Jan 1890 |
Newport, Monmouthshire [4] |
| Photos |
 | John Frost, Wife Minnie (Parker) Frost, and Eldest Daughter Louisa Gertrude Frost
Circa 1892. Photographed A.V.G. Taylor, Wesley Chambers, Newport, Monmouthshire. Photograph courtesy of Susan Milroy. |
| Family ID |
F505778190 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 17 Jul 1902 - Cullompton, Devon |
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| Census - 1911 census, 4 Pen Y Dre, Higher Street, Cullompton: John Frost 45, Minnie 42, Louisa Gertrude 20, Alice May 17, Reginald John 16, George Clement 14, Frederick James 12, Minnie Alexandra 8 (born Cullompton), Eveline Sarah 6. - 2 Apr 1911 - Cullompton, Devon |
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| Photos |
 | The Frost Family
(L to R): Frederick Frost, Minnie [Frost] Parker, Nellie Frost (Frederick's wife), Gordon Frost, Chris Frost (Gordon's wife). Date of photo not known. |
| Documents
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 | Page 1 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter
Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026):
Her father's parents (the reader's great-great-grandparents Frost): she was a Somerset country woman; he came from Kent and, according to her father, was a ne'er-do-well whose family paid him to stay away: lazy, good-natured, weak and easily led. His wife brought up the large family. Her father (John Frost) left home early and was apprenticed to a tailoring firm in Bristol. He was treated so badly that at 17 or 18 he ran away to Newport, to a firm whose advertisement he had seen in a newspaper. He asked the way of a pretty girl with golden curls down her back, her mother (Minnie Parker). Minnie's mother pitied the lonely boy; they went to the same church, she invited him to Sunday lunch, and he became one of the family.
Records: John's parents were Andrew and Harriet Frost of Taunton. In 1881 John, 16, was an inmate of Kingswood Reformatory near Bristol, very probably the "apprenticeship" (inference). |
 | Page 2 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter
Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026):
Minnie Parker's mother's maiden name was MORGAN (Sarah Ann Morgan). She was said to descend from the old Princes of Wales and was proud of it; a forebear served under Nelson on the Victory, so that branch was called "the Victory Morgans". She had friends in landed and titled families but had married beneath her: they called in their carriages but had nothing to do with her husband Clement Parker, and dropped the family when she died in 1902. One of them, "Lady Lyons - or perhaps Lines", was godmother to Minnie. Most of this came from "Auntie Louisa, my mother's sister".
Records: Sarah Ann Parker's death is probably the one indexed Jul-Sep 1902, Axbridge (Weston-super-Mare), age 58. The noble connections are unsupported; her father was a collier. |
 | Page 3 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter
Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026):
Clement and Sarah had a large family, including twins who died in infancy. Girls: Minnie (the eldest), Louisa, Alice, Sarah and Gertrude. Boys: George and Alfred, and the twin sons. GEORGE was meant to be a teacher but stowed away on a ship to the West Indies, helped the captain in a mutiny and did well. He went to Ceylon and India, was librarian and secretary to a Maharajah, then joined the Indian Civil Service, became an engineer and helped build the Punjab canals. He married, had several children and died young, about 1906; his family went back to her people and contact was lost. ALFRED worked in London and had 9 children (5 boys, 4 girls); the family lost touch when they moved out of London.
Records: George married Gertrude Verschoyle Rose at Umballa in 1901, had three children 1902-05, and died at Tonk, Rajputana, on 2 May 1906, State Engineer, aged 31. |
 | Page 4 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter
Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026):
Cousin FRANK, now in Adelaide, was Auntie SARAH's only surviving child; she married an Irishman. Auntie LOU never married. Aunt GERTIE died tragically young, a talented musician and artist; the writer was "only about 4 or 5" (really nearly 8: Gertie died in 1910). Aunt ALICE married a schoolmaster, Jack Thomas, and had a son and two daughters. "Your grandfather Bailey... your Mum can tell you all she knows." The reader's grandmother spoke of visits to great-aunts who were Quakers in Weston-super-Mare, probably Clement Parker's aunts.
Records: Sarah's other child was probably Horace Parker Wilson, born and died 1912 in Birkenhead. |
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| Sources |
- [S51] England and Wales Death Index, England and Wales death index, Feb 2004, East Devon: Minnie Alexandra James, born 17 Jul 1902 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4981] 1911 England Census, piece 13224 (Reliability: 3).
- [S51] England and Wales Death Index, England and Wales death index, Feb 2004, East Devon district: Minnie Alexandra James, born 17 Jul 1902 (aged 101) (Reliability: 3).
- [S4907] Free BMD Index.
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, GRO marriage index, Oct-Dec 1946, Windsor district, vol. 6a p. 477: Minnie A. Frost and Sydney H. R. James (Reliability: 3).
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