JOHN MINTO was born in England. He married an ELIZABETH ___________  who  was born during 1801 in England also.   They had 5 known children:

WILLIAM MARK MINTO  married ANNE LEWIS, daughter of HUMPHREY LEWIS and ELIZABETH POOLE around 1857.  Annie was born the day after Christmas in 1834  in Pennsylvania.  Her father was born in Wales; her mother in England. Annie died 1921 on Halloween in Suitland, MD - more than a decade after her husband died there.  William Mark Minto never became a citizen of the United States after he immigrated to America.  When he lived in Chicago IL, he is said to be the inventor of Eisen Glass used, for example, in wood stoves;  he purchased nearly 900 acres in Suitland around 1880 with the patent money.   William Mark Minto died 4 Oct 1909 in Suitland, PGC, MD.

GENERATION #3 - Children of Anne and William Minto

Children of WILLIAM MINTO and ANNE LEWIS are:

WILLIAM MARK MINTO b. Dec 1857

JOSEPH SWEETEN MINTO, b. 15 Mar 1859, Tioga County, PA; he was still living in Towanda PA during the 1870 census, but by the time he died on 25 Sep 1931 he and his family were living in Suitland, MD, where Joseph died.   He married EMMA JANE PECK  Sep 11, 1883, daughter of HAMMOND PECK and EMMA BURNS. She was born 11 Dec 1866 in Kane County, IL, and died 09 Aug 1916 in Providence Hospital, Washington DC

ELIZABETH MINTO, b. Dec 1863; Never married as of 1930 Census.

MARK MINTO b. Mar 1866.

MARGARET IRENE "MAGGIE" MINTO, b. Oct 9, 1869 in PA.  She married BENJAMIN BADEN CATOR
(a CATOR LINE).  Baden and Maggie lived in Prince George's County, MD and had the following children:

Margaret "Maggie" Irene Cator, born 23 Apr 1901 in DC.  Maggie Cator married a FNU Padgett or a Hershel M. Chevalier. Hershel was born 25 May 1916 and lived till  27 Sep 1976. He died in Alexandria,VA and was buried 30 Sep 1976 in Arlington, VA. She died on 12 May 1967 in Alexandria, VA and is buried in Arlington, VA.

Baden Minto Cator, born 29 Sep 1902 in SE Washington DC; died 13 Apr 1973 in DC.  Buried at Ft. Lincoln Cemetery

Clyde Minto Cator born 1904 in DC

Walter Leroy "Reds" Cater, born 14 Feb 1906 in DC; died 19 Nov 1974 in DC.  Buried at Ft. Lincoln Cemetery

Ross Cator, born about 1908 in DC.

Violet Irene Cator who was born on 23 April 1901 and baptized on November 12 of that same year.

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1860 CENSUS:   William Mark Minto and his wife Annie are living in Maryland with their 2 year old son William Mark, Jr., and 1 year old son Joseph Sweeten Minto.  Next door to them are his parents, John Minto and Elizabeth Minto with four of their children - John age 20, Margaret, age 19, Robert age 18, and Thomas age 12.  Both families farm.

1870 Census:  William Mark Minto is now a farmer owning $1300 of real estate and $1000 of personal property.  Annie is 34 and keeps house.  Annie's parents are listed as being of "foreign birth" -- likely England.  William Mark Minto's mother, Elizabeth Minto, is living with he and his family.

1900 CENSUS:   William Mark Minto and his wife Annie are now living in Spauldings District of Prince George's County, MD, with their children Elizabeth,  Mark and Maggie, plus their nephew John Wilson.   Mark was born in England to England-born parents; Annie in Pennsylvania to Wales-born father and England-born mother.  Children were all born in Pennsylvania.  John Wilson also born in Pennsylvania to an England-born father and Pennsylvania born mother.  1900 Census  Spauldings, Prince George, MD;  Roll: T623 626; Page: 12A; ED: 96.

Living on the same street (street name unknown, but listed on same page) is the family of Joseph and Emma Minto and their daughter Jennie Blanche.  Also living with them is Joseph's brother, William.  Emma is born in Illinois to a Scotland born father and an English born mother.   Joseph works as a Market Gardener.  Blanche attends school.  Brother William is a Farmer.

1910 CENSUS:   Annie Minto, a widow, is now living on New Cut Road in Spauldings 6th Dist, Prince Georges County, MD.  Annie is listed as having 4 living children only.  She is 73.  Her son William (single at age 52) and daughter Elizabeth (single at age 46) live with her, as it appears does son Joseph who is also listed as "Head" also with his wife Emma.  Emma is listed as age 46 with one living child.  William, Annie and Joseph do general farming.
 

Four doors down the street is the Benjamin Walls family.  Benjamin married Jennie Blanche Minto and they have three children:  Louis W. age 5; Benjamin age 2, and and infant daughter.   (See Generation 4)

1920 CENSUS:   Elizabeth Minto, her mother Anne, and her brother William H. are listed as living in Prince George's County, MD in the 1920s.  Elizabeth if 53, her mom is 82 and her brother is 62.  They were all born in Pennsylvania.

1930 CENSUS; PGC, MD taken on April 21, 1930 on Suitland Road.  

UPDATED:  This is her home on Suitland Road, which she bought in 1918:

Joseph S. Minto, age 71, born PA, married when he was 61 to Mary C. Minto when she was 41; she is now 52.  Joseph was born in PA; Mary C. in Maryland to Maryland-born parents. Roll: 877; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 16; Image: 904.0.

They live next door to the Walls family.  Benjamin Wall is the head of this family at age 48, born in Maryland, and marrying Jennie B. Walls when he was 22 and she was 18
(about 1904).  Jennie is also from Maryland; her father born in Pennsylvania; mother in Illinois.  Their children are Louis J. 25 born in DC; Benjamin R., 22 born in DC; Ethel M. 19, born in MD; Robert R. 17, born in MD; Lillian H. 13, born in MD; Margaret I.  11 born in MD; Violet E. 8 born in MD; James A. 5 born in DC; and George N. 1 year and 5 months old, born in DC.   The births suggest that the family lived in DC from about1904 to 1911; then Maryland from 1911 to 1922+; then returned to DC by 1925.

GENERATION #4 - Children of Joseph & Emma Peck Minto

LILLIAN ANNA MINTO, b. 1883; d. 14 Aug 1908; m. ARTHUR LAWRENCE LATIMER