Researching Minnie Sharp
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 24957 people with the Sharp surname? In that year Sharp was ranked number 130 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Minnie means "loving memory" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Minnie Sharp on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Minnie Sharp in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Minnie Sharp and the Sharp Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sharp Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sharp family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 26145 people with the Sharp surname in the UK? Sharp is now ranked number 194 for popularity in the UK. |
Sharp Genealogy Databases
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Sharp Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 100262 people with the Sharp surname in the USA? Sharp is ranked number 124 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Sharp Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Minnie Sharp. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Minnie Sharp
Minnie Bell Sharp
Minnie Bell Sharp Adney (January 12, 1865 – April 11, 1937) was a Canadian music teacher and political candidate.
She was the daughter of Francis Peabody Sharp, a famous Canadian pomologist, and on September 12, 1899, married Edwin Tappan Adney, the Klondike publicist and Malicite ethnographer. They had one child, Francis Glenn Adney, born on July 9, 1902, in Woodstock, New Brunswick who became a minor jazz pianist and band leader in the US. Sharp and her husband lived together for only about a quarter of their 38-year marriage.
Born and reared in Upper Woodstock, NB, Sharp trained in music at New York City beginning about 1883. She claimed as instructors William Mason and Gonzalo Nunez for piano and Ange Albert Pattou and Frank Tubbs in voice. After some teaching at New York, Fredericton and Woodstock, in 1893 she purchased the business name and goodwill of the Victoria Conservatory of Music at Victoria, British Columbia, of which she was the principal until 1900. Thereafter she returned east and conducted the Woodstock School of Music for about two decades.
In September 1897 Sharp was arrested at Woodstock on a judgment debt for non-payment of school taxes and was in gaol (jail) for 17 days. She sued for false imprisonment and eventually won.
In 1919, the now impoverished and decidedly eccentric Sharp announced her candidacy for the constituency of Victoria—Carleton in the first post-war Canadian federal election. Although women could then vote they could not run for office, so her name did not appear on the ballot. She stood for elective office on at least three other occasions. The only time her name appeared on the ballot was the federal campaign of 1925, when she received 84 votes. Although apparently in favour of legislated prohibition, the only point in her political platforms that was vaguely feminist was her pledge to build an economy in which children could be reared in security.
As a music teacher Sharp was gifted. But like her gifted father before her, she had no head for business and, like her gifted husband, she was stubborn, defensive and eccentric in ways that exasperated many.
She is buried in the Upper Woodstock Cemetery, Woodstock, New Brunswick.
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