In another post relevant to this thread, someone mentioned "Meinert Doodes and Doodes Minor", with I believe Doodes Minor being said to be the father of Elizabeth Minor. Were these men father and son? If so, could it be that the son for some unknown reason decided to flip the names, making "Meinert" into the similar-sounding "Minor"? Chris Moore EAFerguson@aol.com wrote: > Old fumble fingers here hit the 'Send' button instead of the 'Edit' button on > a draft e-mail to the group regarding the origin of the given name Minor. > This is the rest of that message. (((Snip))) > > How much of these lines can we document now? Where do we stop? And my > original question: Where did the surname Minor come from? As Ann Avery Hunter > pointed out in her response to my first e-mail on this subject, sometimes a > surname does not come from a direct ancestor. Any comments will be greatly > appreciated. > > Earl Ferguson > Atlanta