The question of John Winn - Elizabeth Minor seems to be pretty well laid to rest, at least in Westmoreland County (VA). While my line was tied to this, I have had serious doubts, as have many of us on this list. Myles has done a great service in disproving (if that can ever be done) what looks like a widespread and incorrect bit of history. But it was my history! Now I have some questions. If this Winn-Minor marriage didn't exist, who was Minor Winn? (The first one). And who were his parents? Minor is not a common given name, yet it has been so used at frequently in the Winn family. It also appeared in my Fortson line, which is also my Winn connection. If there is n o Minor - Winn marriage, why was Minor used as a given name for several generations? There must be a connection. To review my Winn lineage, in hopes that some one can help document some of the

EAFerguson wrote: > If there is n o Minor - Winn marriage, why was Minor used as a > given name for several generations? > There must be a connection. Not necessarily. In the Amelia/Nottoway Winn family, for instance, Richard Winn & Jane Pincham's daughter married as her second husband Warner Guy. The name Warner Guy was picked up and used by her nephew in Franklin Co., NC for one of his children, and it is still being used. There have been 4 or 5 generations of Warner Winns there, and that family has no Warner ancestors at all. Ann -- Ann Avery Hunter Richmond, Virginia mailto:annh@erols.com

Have been unable to check or reply to email for a week but I wanted to throw the name of Doodes Minor (Dutch sea Captain) into this discussion. There was speculation at one time that he might have had a daughter named Elizabeth who married John Winn. He suipposedly lived in the area with John Winn. Jack Wynn >The question of John Winn - Elizabeth Minor seems to be pretty well laid to >rest, at least in Westmoreland County (VA). While my line was tied to this, I >have had serious doubts, as have many of us on this list. Myles has done a >great service in disproving (if that can ever be done) what looks like a >widespread and incorrect bit of history. > >But it was my history! Now I have some questions. If this Winn-Minor marriage >didn't exist, who was Minor Winn? (The first one). And who were his parents? >Minor is not a common given name, yet it has been so used at frequently in >the Winn family. It also appeared in my Fortson line, which is also my Winn >connection. If there is n o Minor - Winn marriage, why was Minor used as a >given name for several generations? >There must be a connection. > >To review my Winn lineage, in hopes that some one can help document some of >the

EA Ferguson wrote: > But it was my history! Now I have some questions. If this Winn-Minor marriage > didn't exist, who was Minor Winn? (The first one). And who were his parents? My Question IS: Does anyone know the use of the name "Minor" ? Today at times if a son is named the same as his father he might be called "Junior". Could that be a possible use of the name "Minor" in the 1700's? Was Minor Winn called "Minor" because he was really named after his father? And we really don't know his true given name? There is a book titled: "The Winns of Fairfield County (SC), Colonel John Winn, William Winn, General Richard Winn" by Buford S. Chappell, M.D. Buford Chappell wrote that Minor Winn was the first of his lineage to arrive in VA from Wales. I can offer some info in that Minor Winn was a carpenter and he may have been more like today that we refer to a contractor: TLC Genealogy: Halifax Co VA, Feb. Court 1768: To Minor Winn for repairing the Prison 22. 19. 0 lbs. and Fauquier Co Minute Book, 1764-1768 (Sparacio) p. 11 p. 201: 31 Jul 1766: Minor Winn is allowed liberty to repair and use the Old Courthouse during the pleasure of the court. To learn the trade of carpentry Minor Winn was probably bounded out to another carpenter either in the colonies or Wales unless his father was a carpenter, too. Which is very possible. Deanna.