Släkthistoria för Minchinton
Minchinton Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from Minchington in Sixpenny Handley (Dorset) which is recorded as Munecheneton in 1307. The place-name means ‘farmstead of the nuns’ from Old English myncen ‘nun’ (genitive plural myncena) + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
