Minnie (Brooks) Priestley (1866 - 1921)

Born 19 Jul 1866 in Honley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Wife of Williamson Priestley — married 1893 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died 15 May 1921 at age 54 in Maywood, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Minnie Brook was born 19 Jul 1866 in Honley, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Charles Brook and Ann (Turner) Brook.

Minnie married Alfred Williamson Priestly in 1893 in Nottingham.

By 1910 Alfred and Minnie had emigrated to Illinois in the United States.

Minnie died on 15 May 1921 in Maywood, Proviso, Cook Co., Illinois.

Alfred died on 20 Jan 1943 in Chicago.

Research Notes

Sister Ada - birth reg Sep q 1870 Huddersfield

Sister Ellen Ann - birth reg Mar q 1862 Huddersfield

Sources

• Birth registration listed on https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp (Mena Brooke, third quarter 1866, Huddersfield district, mother Turner)

• Marriage registration https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=3aq2755gr39R73db%2FwNaug&scan=1 and https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=0HYxPtGP2%2FrUcQFYBYG36g&scan=1

• Death "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQJ8-1JZ : 8 March 2018), Minnie Priestley, 15 May 1921; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,570,367.

• "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBHY-MQY : 29 September 2019), Minney Brook in entry for Charles Brook, 1871.

• "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4C8C-FZM : 26 November 2020), Minnie Brookes in household of Ellen Brookes, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Nottinghamshire county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

• "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSNC-7PK : 21 May 2019), Alfred W Priestley, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Carlton subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.