Talk:Talbot O'Farrell

Minnie Lindley
Apart from press claims, there seems to be no evidence that O'Farrell and Minnie Lindley were ever married. She married Sam Taylor Lindley in 1894, but is recorded in the 1901 census as living in Batley with her parents and her three children (all born in Nottingham). The 1911 census shows Minnie Lindley (married for 17 years, four children of whom three were living) in Putney, with lodger Will McIvor [sic], music hall artiste, who had been married for 8 years and had one child. There is also a new-born son, Richard Lindley, aged under one month. By the 1939 register, they are recorded as Talbot and Minnie O'Farrell, living in Gordon Mansions, Torrington Place, London, with a 23-year-old daughter (so, born c. 1916). Samuel Taylor Lindley, incidentally, was born in 1864 (in Nottingham) and seems to have died in 1932; so, despite the press claims, Minnie was not a widow when she and O'Farrell purportedly married. None of this can really be included directly in the article, but it may be of interest to anyone undertaking any further research. Details of her birth name in Richard Anthony Baker's book (p.253) appear to be substantially wrong. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:44, 9 February 2023 (UTC)