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December 11, 2004

Minchin place names

As part of the series on the Minchin name, I am collating place names containing "minchin", and trying to determine their origins.

  • Towns
    • Minchinbury, New South Wales, known throughout Australia for its champagne.
      William Minchin was the Principal Superintendent of Police and Treasurer of the Police Fund in the colony. He was granted 1,000 acres of land in the area named after him and now known as Minchinbury.
    • Minchinhampton, England. This is Stroud gives the origin:
      The name actually takes its meaning from an old word for "nuns" - William the Conqueror originally gave the town to the Abbaye aux Dames of Caen.
    • Minchinton, England
    • Minchinabad, Pakistan
  • Roads
  • Natural features

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September 10, 2004

James Minchin is alive

The people named James Minchin who are currently alive that I know of are:
  • James N Minchin (me), computer programmer in Perth, Western Australia
  • James R Minchin III, a photographer (mainly of music-related stuff) in Los Angeles
  • James E Minchin, who in 2000 had some connection to King's College London
  • Father James Minchin, Anglican priest at Melbourne's St Kilda parish, and author of respected book on Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, No Man Is an Island. Interviewed on Lateline, on Australian national tv in 2002.

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September 9, 2004

James Minchin

Although I have an uncommon name, and I am by far the most internet-orientated James Minchin I know of, I am dismayed to see that my web pages are barely in Google's top 10 of hits for my James Minchin. In an attempt to rectify this, I shall write the occasional blog entry about my name, in particular the Minchin part of James Minchin.

If you're after real information on this topic, then take a look at the genealogy section of this site.

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