This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mason, Phelps Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2UB.2ACI/1794.1 Message Board Post: My grandfather was Norman Phelps Mason, b 12/1893, in Birmingham, AL and I feel strongly the Phelps means something as so many were named after family members in the 19th century. Contact me if this is perhaps a connection with your Phelps or Norman query. Thanks.