Person: Minnie (Mintaha) Trad

Name:
Minnie Trad

Occupation:
Home Duties

Religion:
Catholic

Birthplace:
Abbilias, Syria/Lebanon

Arrival In Australia:
1901

Years Lived In Brisbane:
1901-1910; 1925-1957

Date Of Naturalization:
By marriage: 10/01/1906

Year Of Birth:
1887

Place Of Death:
Brisbane

Date Of Death:
8/09/1957

Spouse

  • Marriage Date: 10-01-1906
    Birthplace of spouse: Abbilias, Syria/Lebanon
    Heritage of spouse: Syrian/Lebanese
    Place of marriage: Brisbane

Story

Her son, Nick, remembers his mother, Mintaha (Minnie)  as ‘a wonderful person’  who ‘devoted herself one hundred percent, wholly and solely, to the family’. Minnie raised a large family. Eight of her thirteen children lived to adulthood. Four died as infants and a daughter, Alma died of meningitis when she was fifteen. Nick who was almost four at the time of his sister’s death, remembers ‘being in that room with the uncles, the aunts, my parents and the older ones who were desperately expressing their sadness at the death of this fifteen-year-old- girl’.

Minnie’s ‘one interest outside the family’, was the Catholic Women’s League and she often held Saturday night parties to raise funds for the Mater Hospital.

 

References

Nick Dyer, The Dyer Family: a Loving Tibute to SAlem Dyer and Mintaha Trad, Brisbane: Author, 1991.