Walter Minto

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, where he inherited indebted estates and enslaved people from his father Robert Minto (q.v.).

1. Mary Gallimore, spinster, married Walter Minto Esq, both of the parish of Trelawny, 05/07/1809 at Trelawny. Walter Minto, born 22/11/1779 and baptised 24/04/1780 in Trelawny, was the son of Robert Minto, born circa 1740 in Scotland, and his wife, Elizabeth. Two younger sisters, Isabella born 10/07/1781 and Elizabeth Fletcher born 14/11/1782, were baptised 19/05/1783 in Trelawny.

2. Robert Minto was the brother of Walter Minto, born Scotland, who was, in turn, the father of Walter Minto, the mathematician at Princeton. Robert offered a position in Jamaica to the young Walter who refused it. Walter’s brother, Thomas, took up the offer.

3. Robert Minto was involved in a court case re mortgage debts on Water Valley and Dry Valley plantations. Robert Minto died in May 1803, aged 63, and is recorded on a monumentall stone in the Roslin Castle Estate, parish of Trelawny.

4. Walter Minto and Mary had five children baptised in Trelawny: Jarvis, born 10/09/1811 and baptised 17/04/1812, Sarah, born 01/12/1812 and baptised 19/03/1813, Robert, born 06/06/1810, and baptised 02/04/1811, Mary Eliza, born 14/11/1821 and baptised 23/01/1822 and Elizabeth Juliana, born 28/01/1814 and baptised 04/07/1815. Sarah was buried in Trelawny 13/07/1813 and Robert died 24/08/1814, recorded on the same gravestone as Robert Minto. Robert’s age at death does not quite match his date of birth on his baptism record as he is given as ‘4 years, 8 months and 11 days’ but he is described on his grandfather’s memorial stone as ‘child of his son Walter Minto and Mary his wife’ so seems to be the same child. (The memorial records have been scanned and are full of inaccuracies and faults.)

5. Walter Minto died 12/1830, aged 51, and is recorded on his father’s memorial stone at Roslin Castle.

1. Jamaica Church of England Parish Registers for Trelawny 1771-1839 online at FamilySearch.org; Jamaica Births and Baptisms 1752-1920 online at FamilySearch.org.

2. William L Clements Library Manuscripts Division Finding Aids: Minto-Skelton Papers 1757-1956 - Biography of William Minto at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-4423min?byte=8882400;focusrgn=bioghist;subview=standard;view=reslist [accessed 08/11/11] and Google Books: Encyclopaedia Perthensis at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zk8KAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=walter+minto+jamaica&source=bl&ots=Iejj11rark&sig=eUMOSUXXTG67iQ-RoCDY-j4zICQ&hl=en&ei=woW5Tv9cxJmFB7vQ9JgH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFkQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=walter%20minto%20jamaica&f=false [accessed 08/11/11].

3. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xo0wAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA119&dq=appellant+robert+minto&hl=en&ei=agK7ToOKDITS8QPqis3JBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=appellant%20robert%20minto&f=false [accessed 09/11/11]; Monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies from the earliest date by James Henry Lawrence-Archer at www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/j-h-james-henry-lawrence-archer/monumental-inscriptions-of-the-british-west-indies-from-the-earliest-date-with--hci/page-24-monumental-inscriptions-of-the-british-west-indies-from-the-earliest-date-with--hci.shtml [accessed 08/11/11].

4. Jamaica Births and Baptisms 1752-1920 online at FamilySearch; Jamaica Church of England Parish Registers for Trelawny 1771-1839 online at FamilySearch; Monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies from the earliest date by James Henry Lawrence-Archer at www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/j-h-james-henry-lawrence-archer/monumental-inscriptions-of-the-british-west-indies-from-the-earliest-date-with--hci/page-24-monumental-inscriptions-of-the-british-west-indies-from-the-earliest-date-with--hci.shtml [accessed 08/11/11].

5. www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/j-h-james-henry-lawrence-archer/monumental-inscriptions-of-the-british-west-indies-from-the-earliest-date-with--hci/page-24-monumental-inscriptions-of-the-british-west-indies-from-the-earliest-date-with--hci.shtml [accessed 08/11/11].