Harriet Salter

Abt 1845 -

• Name	Harriet Salter
  Birth	Abt 1845	Ilminster, Somerset, England
  Gender	Female
  Census	2 Apr 1871	Taunton, Somerset, England   [1]
  	1871 census, Taunton St Mary, Somerset. Andrew Frost, head, 34, born London; Harriet, wife, 26, born Ilminster, Somerset; John, son, 7, born Taunton; Charlotte, 4; James, 1.
  Census	3 Apr 1881	East Reach, Taunton, Somerset, England   [2]
  	1881 census, Seven Stars Court, East Reach, Taunton St Mary, Somerset. Andrew Frost, 40; Harriet, 33; Charlotte, 13; James, 11; Frederick, 8; Andrew, 4; Bessie, 1. (John, 16, was at Kingswood Reformatory.)
  Notes	Her maiden name SALTER is an inference, not proven. Andrew Frost's marriage is indexed in Taunton district, Jan-Mar 1864, GRO 5c 608. The other names on that index page are Harriett Salter, Sarah Day and James Speed, and Harriett Salter is the only Harriet on the page. Check with the marriage certificate or the Taunton parish register. Her age (26 in 1871, 33 in 1881) and birthplace (Ilminster) come from the census. Aunt Min's letter (c1977) remembers her as "a Somerset country woman" who brought up the large family herself.
  Person ID	I602074836	Walsh - Wilson Family Tree
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2026

  
  

  Family	Andrew Frost,   b. Abt 1837, London, England
  Marriage	Between Jan 1864 and Mar 1864	Taunton, Somerset, England   [3]
  Children	+ 1. John Frost,   b. 12 Aug 1865, Taunton, Somerset   2. Charlotte Frost,   b. Abt 1867, Taunton, Somerset, England   3. James Frost,   b. Abt 1870, Taunton, Somerset, England   4. Frederick Frost,   b. Abt 1873, Taunton, Somerset, England   5. Andrew Frost,   b. Abt 1877, Taunton, Somerset, England   6. Bessie Frost,   b. Abt 1880, Taunton, Somerset, England
  Family ID	F601969439	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2026

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Page 1 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026): Her father's parents (the reader's great-great-grandparents Frost): she was a Somerset country woman; he came from Kent and, according to her father, was a ne'er-do-well whose family paid him to stay away: lazy, good-natured, weak and easily led. His wife brought up the large family. Her father (John Frost) left home early and was apprenticed to a tailoring firm in Bristol. He was treated so badly that at 17 or 18 he ran away to Newport, to a firm whose advertisement he had seen in a newspaper. He asked the way of a pretty girl with golden curls down her back, her mother (Minnie Parker). Minnie's mother pitied the lonely boy; they went to the same church, she invited him to Sunday lunch, and he became one of the family. Records: John's parents were Andrew and Harriet Frost of Taunton. In 1881 John, 16, was an inmate of Kingswood Reformatory near Bristol, very probably the "apprenticeship" (inference).
  		Page 2 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026): Minnie Parker's mother's maiden name was MORGAN (Sarah Ann Morgan). She was said to descend from the old Princes of Wales and was proud of it; a forebear served under Nelson on the Victory, so that branch was called "the Victory Morgans". She had friends in landed and titled families but had married beneath her: they called in their carriages but had nothing to do with her husband Clement Parker, and dropped the family when she died in 1902. One of them, "Lady Lyons - or perhaps Lines", was godmother to Minnie. Most of this came from "Auntie Louisa, my mother's sister". Records: Sarah Ann Parker's death is probably the one indexed Jul-Sep 1902, Axbridge (Weston-super-Mare), age 58. The noble connections are unsupported; her father was a collier.
  		Page 3 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026): Clement and Sarah had a large family, including twins who died in infancy. Girls: Minnie (the eldest), Louisa, Alice, Sarah and Gertrude. Boys: George and Alfred, and the twin sons. GEORGE was meant to be a teacher but stowed away on a ship to the West Indies, helped the captain in a mutiny and did well. He went to Ceylon and India, was librarian and secretary to a Maharajah, then joined the Indian Civil Service, became an engineer and helped build the Punjab canals. He married, had several children and died young, about 1906; his family went back to her people and contact was lost. ALFRED worked in London and had 9 children (5 boys, 4 girls); the family lost touch when they moved out of London. Records: George married Gertrude Verschoyle Rose at Umballa in 1901, had three children 1902-05, and died at Tonk, Rajputana, on 2 May 1906, State Engineer, aged 31.
  		Page 4 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026): Cousin FRANK, now in Adelaide, was Auntie SARAH's only surviving child; she married an Irishman. Auntie LOU never married. Aunt GERTIE died tragically young, a talented musician and artist; the writer was "only about 4 or 5" (really nearly 8: Gertie died in 1910). Aunt ALICE married a schoolmaster, Jack Thomas, and had a son and two daughters. "Your grandfather Bailey... your Mum can tell you all she knows." The reader's grandmother spoke of visits to great-aunts who were Quakers in Weston-super-Mare, probably Clement Parker's aunts. Records: Sarah's other child was probably Horace Parker Wilson, born and died 1912 in Birkenhead.

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] 1871 England Census, RG10/2370 f41 p11, schedule 52 (Reliability: 3). [S63] 1881 England Census, RG11/2366 f135 p13 (Reliability: 3). [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, GRO marriage index, Jan-Mar 1864, Taunton district, vol. 5c p. 608 (Andrew Frost) (Reliability: 3).