In Reply to: Re: Miss E.P. McManus of Pontoon posted by MM/Mary McGreal/Blackshire on November 28, 2012 at 14:35:46:

I certainly heard of Mrs Minchin, though I recall her surname being pronounced as Mrs Minch, and she lived, I think, on Tucker Street. She would have been there in the 1940s, so there should be some folk in the town who have heard of her.