Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameMerlin Theodore Minshall 
[4, 1911 ref: RG14PN5730 RG78PN260 RD93 SD3 ED15 SN237], [3, Birth, Q1 of 1907, Chertsey dist, vol 2A, p. 67], [3, Death, Sep 1987, Kings Lynn dist, vol 10, p. 1453]
[4, 1911 ref: RG14PN5730 RG78PN260 RD93 SD3 ED15 SN237], [3, Birth, Q1 of 1907, Chertsey dist, vol 2A, p. 67], [3, Death, Sep 1987, Kings Lynn dist, vol 10, p. 1453]Birth21 Dec 1906, Cobham, Surrey
Death3 Sep 1987, The Old Bakery, Stoke Ferry, King's Lynn
General1st s.
FatherThomas Herbert Minshall (ca1873-1971)
MotherTheodora Wigham-Richardson (ca1871-1932)
Spouses
Marriageca Aug 1932, Witney district, Oxon [3, Marriage, Q3 of 1932, Witney dist, vol 3A, p. 3759]
No Children
Marriage25 Nov 1937, St Mark, North Audley St, Westminster, Mx [52, Marriage on 25 Nov 1937 at St Mark North Audley Street, London], [3, Marriage, Q4 of 1937, Westminster dist, vol 1A, p. 1027]
No Children
Marriageca Aug 1948, Kensington district, London [3, Marriage, Q3 of 1948, Kensington dist, vol 5C, p. 3239]
No Children
FatherWilliam Warren Shaw-Zambra (born Zambra) (ca1898-1971)
MotherMarjorie Anderson Mann (1899-1989)
Marriageca Feb 1956, Westminster district, London [3, Marriage, Q1 of 1956, Westminster dist, vol 5C, p. 839]
Notes for Merlin Theodore Minshall
m. (1) Elizabeth Loveday, (2) Isyllt Llewellyn, (3) Jeannine Sergent, (4) Christina Zambra
(but in the fourth he was 'Minshull')
No children to the first three marriages.
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His birth index:
Name: Mother's Maiden Surname:
MINSHALL, MERLIN THEODORE WIGHAM-RICHARDSON
GRO Reference: 1907 M Quarter in CHERTSEY Volume 02A Page 67
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Perhaps in 1911 and after the early death of his brother he was being brought up in the fresh bracing air of the Isle of Wight at Horestone Point, Sea View, I W, St Helens, Isle of Wight, Hants, albeit with his first name wrongly transcribed as Martin:
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
William Garnett Head Married Male 60 1851 Educational Adviser To London County Council Hampshire Portsea
Mary Desiree Waller Visitor Single Female 24 1887 Student London St Marylebone
Hilda Garnett Daughter Single Female 26 1885 - Hampshire Southsea
Martin Theodore Minshall Visitor - Male 4 1907 - Surrey Cobham
Annie Laurence Visitor Single Female 19 1892 Nurse Domestic Surrey Chesbury
Amy Stratford Servant Single Female 22 1889 Kitchen Maid Domestic Wiltshire Swindon
Evelyn Hopkinson Visitor Widow Female 60 1851 Private Means Yorkshire Leeds
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His (only) and Christina's children:
Last name First name(s) Year Of Birth Year Of Death Year Registration district
Minshall Luke 1964 — 1964 Surrey South Eastern, Surrey
Minshall Matthew 1958 — 1958 Westminster, London
Minshall Peter 1956 — 1956 Westminster, London
Minshall Timothy Herbert W 1967 — 1967 Surrey South Eastern, Surrey
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His death index:
First name(s) MERLIN THEODORE
Last name MINSHALL
Gender Male
Birth day 21
Birth month 12
Birth year 1906
Death quarter 3
Death year 1987
District Kings Lynn
Register number 987
County Norfolk
Volume 10
Page 1453
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
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(but in the fourth he was 'Minshull')
No children to the first three marriages.
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His birth index:
Name: Mother's Maiden Surname:
MINSHALL, MERLIN THEODORE WIGHAM-RICHARDSON
GRO Reference: 1907 M Quarter in CHERTSEY Volume 02A Page 67
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Perhaps in 1911 and after the early death of his brother he was being brought up in the fresh bracing air of the Isle of Wight at Horestone Point, Sea View, I W, St Helens, Isle of Wight, Hants, albeit with his first name wrongly transcribed as Martin:
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
William Garnett Head Married Male 60 1851 Educational Adviser To London County Council Hampshire Portsea
Mary Desiree Waller Visitor Single Female 24 1887 Student London St Marylebone
Hilda Garnett Daughter Single Female 26 1885 - Hampshire Southsea
Martin Theodore Minshall Visitor - Male 4 1907 - Surrey Cobham
Annie Laurence Visitor Single Female 19 1892 Nurse Domestic Surrey Chesbury
Amy Stratford Servant Single Female 22 1889 Kitchen Maid Domestic Wiltshire Swindon
Evelyn Hopkinson Visitor Widow Female 60 1851 Private Means Yorkshire Leeds
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His (only) and Christina's children:
Last name First name(s) Year Of Birth Year Of Death Year Registration district
Minshall Luke 1964 — 1964 Surrey South Eastern, Surrey
Minshall Matthew 1958 — 1958 Westminster, London
Minshall Peter 1956 — 1956 Westminster, London
Minshall Timothy Herbert W 1967 — 1967 Surrey South Eastern, Surrey
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His death index:
First name(s) MERLIN THEODORE
Last name MINSHALL
Gender Male
Birth day 21
Birth month 12
Birth year 1906
Death quarter 3
Death year 1987
District Kings Lynn
Register number 987
County Norfolk
Volume 10
Page 1453
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
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Will notes for Merlin Theodore Minshall
His probate index:
MINSHALL Merlin Theodore of The Old Bakery Stoke Ferry King's Lybbe died 3 September 1987 Probate Ipswich 30 October £4022 8781503173T
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MINSHALL Merlin Theodore of The Old Bakery Stoke Ferry King's Lybbe died 3 September 1987 Probate Ipswich 30 October £4022 8781503173T
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DNB Main notes for Merlin Theodore Minshall
From The Times of 23 September 1987:
Merlin Minshall, a rumbustious adventurer was born three or four years centuries too late, died on September 3. He was 81. Merlin Theodore Minshall, son of a newspaper proprietor and nephew of a baronet, had a conventional education - prep school, public school, Oxford, architectural school - and loathed it. He gave up his architectural training to spend over two years sailing across Europe in a small boat, thus coming into contact with the Nazi regime, which had just come to power. He next turned to car-racing, found himself being presented with a prize by Mussolini and went off to cross the Sahara north-to-south in a three-wheeled light truck coming into further contact with fascism. He tried to get authorities in Whitehall interested in what he had found out; without, in the floodtide of appeasement, much success. He did secure a sub-lieutenant's commission in the RNVR, but his was not in any sense a subordinate temperament. His bristly personality soon put him at odds with Admiral Godfrey, the director of naval intelligence. Luckily for Minshall, Godfrey's assistant, Ian Fleming, gave him a helping hand (Minshall is supposed to have been one of the characters from whom Fleming later drew James Bond). As he had intimate knowledge of the middle-Danube, he was sent to take part in ineffective British attempts to stop the flow of Romanian grain and oil to Germany. He returned to England after various hair's breath's escapes, and was snapped up by SOE on its formation in the summer of 1940. Late that November he ran operation 'Shamrock'. He took a small party of Frenchmen to the Gironde Estuary. They travelled by submarine and seized a fishing smack from which they studied the movements of U-boats going in and out of the estuary. They then sailed the smack back to England to report. Minshall then spent a spell in New Zealand, organizing special naval intelligence. From this comparative rest he was recalled in the autumn of 1943, promoted Commander, and sent to establish naval liaison with Tito's partisans on the coast of Yugoslavia. This provied him with a further string of adventures, recounted in his entertaining war autobiography, Guilt-edged, published in 1975 with a foreword by his friend, Len Deighton. When the war was over, uniformed service held no attractions for Minshall. Once he tried his hand at politics. His half-brother, Lord Poole, had been chairman of the Conservative party; his own inclinations, though strongly anti-Socialist, were more Liberal. He settled in Norfolk, with his third wife and their four sons.
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He also gets a page on a Singer Cars website at <http://www.singercars.com/history/merlin.html>;
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Merlin Minshall, a rumbustious adventurer was born three or four years centuries too late, died on September 3. He was 81. Merlin Theodore Minshall, son of a newspaper proprietor and nephew of a baronet, had a conventional education - prep school, public school, Oxford, architectural school - and loathed it. He gave up his architectural training to spend over two years sailing across Europe in a small boat, thus coming into contact with the Nazi regime, which had just come to power. He next turned to car-racing, found himself being presented with a prize by Mussolini and went off to cross the Sahara north-to-south in a three-wheeled light truck coming into further contact with fascism. He tried to get authorities in Whitehall interested in what he had found out; without, in the floodtide of appeasement, much success. He did secure a sub-lieutenant's commission in the RNVR, but his was not in any sense a subordinate temperament. His bristly personality soon put him at odds with Admiral Godfrey, the director of naval intelligence. Luckily for Minshall, Godfrey's assistant, Ian Fleming, gave him a helping hand (Minshall is supposed to have been one of the characters from whom Fleming later drew James Bond). As he had intimate knowledge of the middle-Danube, he was sent to take part in ineffective British attempts to stop the flow of Romanian grain and oil to Germany. He returned to England after various hair's breath's escapes, and was snapped up by SOE on its formation in the summer of 1940. Late that November he ran operation 'Shamrock'. He took a small party of Frenchmen to the Gironde Estuary. They travelled by submarine and seized a fishing smack from which they studied the movements of U-boats going in and out of the estuary. They then sailed the smack back to England to report. Minshall then spent a spell in New Zealand, organizing special naval intelligence. From this comparative rest he was recalled in the autumn of 1943, promoted Commander, and sent to establish naval liaison with Tito's partisans on the coast of Yugoslavia. This provied him with a further string of adventures, recounted in his entertaining war autobiography, Guilt-edged, published in 1975 with a foreword by his friend, Len Deighton. When the war was over, uniformed service held no attractions for Minshall. Once he tried his hand at politics. His half-brother, Lord Poole, had been chairman of the Conservative party; his own inclinations, though strongly anti-Socialist, were more Liberal. He settled in Norfolk, with his third wife and their four sons.
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He also gets a page on a Singer Cars website at <http://www.singercars.com/history/merlin.html>;
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Notes for Merlin Theodore & Elizabeth D (Family)
Their marriage index:
First name(s) MERLIN T
Last name MINSHALL
Marriage quarter 3
Marriage year 1932
MarriageFinder MERLIN T MINSHALL married one of these people
Elizabeth D Loveday
Spouse's last name Loveday
District Witney
County Oxfordshire
Country England
Volume 3A
Page number 3759
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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First name(s) MERLIN T
Last name MINSHALL
Marriage quarter 3
Marriage year 1932
MarriageFinder MERLIN T MINSHALL married one of these people
Elizabeth D Loveday
Spouse's last name Loveday
District Witney
County Oxfordshire
Country England
Volume 3A
Page number 3759
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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Notes for Merlin Theodore & Isyllt Gwyneddy Winn (Family)
From the image of the Marriage Register:
Place: The parish church of St Mark North Audley St, London
Date: 25th November 1937
Entry No: 36
Him Her
Name Merlin Theodore Minshall Isyllt Winn Llewelly [but see note below]
Age 30 24
Condition: Bachelor Spinster
Job: Architect -
Residence: 13 North Audley Street W.1. 20 Chesham Place S.W.
Father: Thomas Herbert Minshall Richard Llewelly Jones Llewellyn (deceased)
Father Job: Colonel retired D.S.O. Physician
Minister: Ethlebert Goodchild, Vicar of St Luke
Witnesses: T Herbert Minshall, W N Manning, E C Heath
Note in the margin:
"In Entry No 36, Col 2 for "Isyllt Winn Llewellyn" read "Isyllt Gwyneddy Winn Llewellyn" otherwise "Isyllt Winn Llewellyn" Corrected on the 6th Dec 1937 by me W G Perryman, Vicar In the presence of James D Holliday Deputy ... & Registrar ..., T Herbert Minshall, A W N Waler(?)
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Their marriage Index:
First name(s) MERLIN T
Last name MINSHALL
Marriage quarter 4
Marriage year 1937
MarriageFinder MERLIN T MINSHALL married one of these people
Isyllt G Llewellyn
Spouse's last name Llewellyn
District Westminster
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page number 1027
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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Place: The parish church of St Mark North Audley St, London
Date: 25th November 1937
Entry No: 36
Him Her
Name Merlin Theodore Minshall Isyllt Winn Llewelly [but see note below]
Age 30 24
Condition: Bachelor Spinster
Job: Architect -
Residence: 13 North Audley Street W.1. 20 Chesham Place S.W.
Father: Thomas Herbert Minshall Richard Llewelly Jones Llewellyn (deceased)
Father Job: Colonel retired D.S.O. Physician
Minister: Ethlebert Goodchild, Vicar of St Luke
Witnesses: T Herbert Minshall, W N Manning, E C Heath
Note in the margin:
"In Entry No 36, Col 2 for "Isyllt Winn Llewellyn" read "Isyllt Gwyneddy Winn Llewellyn" otherwise "Isyllt Winn Llewellyn" Corrected on the 6th Dec 1937 by me W G Perryman, Vicar In the presence of James D Holliday Deputy ... & Registrar ..., T Herbert Minshall, A W N Waler(?)
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Their marriage Index:
First name(s) MERLIN T
Last name MINSHALL
Marriage quarter 4
Marriage year 1937
MarriageFinder MERLIN T MINSHALL married one of these people
Isyllt G Llewellyn
Spouse's last name Llewellyn
District Westminster
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page number 1027
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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Notes for Merlin Theodore & Jeannine P (Family)
Their marriage index:
First name(s) MERLIN T
Last name MINSHALL
Marriage quarter 3
Marriage year 1948
MarriageFinder MERLIN T MINSHALL married one of these people
Jeannine P Sergent
Spouse's last name Sergent
District Kensington
County London
Country England
Volume 5C
Page number 3239
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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First name(s) MERLIN T
Last name MINSHALL
Marriage quarter 3
Marriage year 1948
MarriageFinder MERLIN T MINSHALL married one of these people
Jeannine P Sergent
Spouse's last name Sergent
District Kensington
County London
Country England
Volume 5C
Page number 3239
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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Notes for Merlin Theodore & Christina Marjorie (Family)
First name(s) MERLIN T
Last name MINSHULL
Marriage quarter 1
Marriage year 1956
MarriageFinder MERLIN T MINSHULL married one of these people
Christina M Zambra
Spouse's last name Zambra
District Westminster
County London
Country England
Volume 5C
Page number 839
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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Last name MINSHULL
Marriage quarter 1
Marriage year 1956
MarriageFinder MERLIN T MINSHULL married one of these people
Christina M Zambra
Spouse's last name Zambra
District Westminster
County London
Country England
Volume 5C
Page number 839
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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