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Minnie Katherine Bryant was born on 1 July 1887 at 26 Keston Road, Goose Green, Surrey. Her father was Henry Bryant who was a Life Assurance Clerk and her mother was Alice Rosa Cormack, also a clerk, and they were married in 1886 in Dulwich, SE London, where they continued to lived. She had a younger sister, Elsie who was born in 1889. Minnie remembers being teased because her father was pro- Boer and a radical (about 1900)
After attending James Alleyn's Girls School (JAGS) in Dulwich Minnie went on to Bedford College, London and trained as a teacher. She then went back to JAGS to teach Botany. Botany was a new science for girls as Biology was not considered ladylike.
Minnie married Sydney Hunt on 26 April 1913 in Dulwich and they lived in Hillsboro Road, first at no1 with his parents then they bought no 21. When the 1914-18 war broke out and the air raids started, Minnie took her baby, Geoffrey (born in 1914), to live on a farm near Faygate in Kent - for safety and better food.
Minnie and Sydney had two daughters as well as their son Geoffrey - Muriel b 1918 and Irene b 1921. Both girls went to school at JAGS, as did Irene's daughter, Paula.
In 1938, just before the Second World War started, the Hunt family went to live in Loughborough but after her husband died in 1945, Minnie moved back to south London and bought a house with her sister Elsie, at 20 Cloisters Avenue, Bickley, near to where her son Geoffrey was living.
Minnie died at Cloisters Avenue on 11 July 1953, aged 66, from 'acute pulmonary odema /coronary occlusion /coronary atheroma' (Heart attack??)
As I was only 3 years old and living in Kenya when Minnie died so I never knew her as a grandmother but I know she made me toys and clothes and wrote a bedtime story for me (see contents). We only met once in 1951.