----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Granzow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:46 AM Subject: Re: [TSL] Males named Doris > On the Ship List for the Bark Johanna Elisa which arrived in New > York from Hamburg, Germany on June 29, 1854 are three persons named > Doris who are listed as males. > > Can anyone tell me if " Doris" is a man's name in Germany of if it > is an abbreviation for another name, or if it has another meaning? Hi Don Its just a surname. To quote an example there were 367 people who had DORIS as a surname in the US 1860 census And there were 20 X DORIS in my Australian phone CD for 2003 I dont know what its roots are . Bye MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast NSW Australia