Actually, Whitton (numerous spellings) and Minor are very common surnames with the high
probability that one is the maiden name of a maternal grandmother and the other is the
maiden name of his mother or paternal grandmother. This giving of maiden names as given
name was extremely common in the 1600-1900 period with quite a few cases even through the
last century and even today.
Sparkgapper
On Aug 23, 2013, at 9:00 AM, gc-gateway(a)rootsweb.com wrote:
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Author: MarkRPutnam
Surnames: Chambers, Minor, Van Norman, Fleming
Classification: queries
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Message Board Post:
My great-grand mother was Mary Chambers who I believe is a somewhat distant relative of
Joseph Chambers who married Sarah Gibbs and who settled in German, Bartholomew, Indiana
about 1823 after going there from Canada. Joseph was born in 1792 in NJ.
Joseph Chambers was the son of Sarah and a Mr. Chambers whose first name has been lost
and is unknown.
Joseph Chambers had brothers Thomas Whiten or Whiting and Minor Chambers along with two
sisters.
The names Thomas Whiten and Minor are very rare first names.
To date, it is my conclusion that my Chambers line comes down from Samuel Chambers of
Walpack, NJ, who was born in 1710 in NY.
Samuel had a son name Johannes Chambers who seems to have been my ancestor.
Samuel Chambers had a daughter Christina, too, who married Charles Fleming, and they had
a son name Thomas Whiting Fleming.
Samuel Chambers had another son among others named James born about 1760 in Walpack, and
he had a son named Joseph who is otherwise unknown. This later information was recorded in
the will of Joseph Chambers James' brother who were was another son of Samuel
Chambers.
It is my guess that the first name Minor in the Indiana Chambers family came from
Sarah's last name, or Sarah "Minor" was the mother of Joseph, Thomas Whiten,
and Minor Chambers.
There was a Minor family that was recorded in the Walpack Reformed Dutch Church including
a Sarah Minor, but little is known about her while the rest of the Minor family is
documented. They went to Ontario, Canada.
It is my guess that James Chambers the son of Samuel married Sarah Minor, and they had
Joseph Chambers who married Sara Gibbs along with having sons Thomas Whiting and Minor
Chambers.
Ephraim Van Norman married Elizabeth Minor a sister of Sarah Minor, and Ephraim's
sister Sarah married Thomas Whiting Fleming a son of Christina Chambers, which is
connection.
So, the Van Norman's, Fleming's, Minor's, and Chambers were closely
associated in NJ and it appears in PA.
The only way to confirm a familial connection between Joseph, Thomas Whiten, and Minor
Chambers of early Indiana and my Chambers family, which seems to come from Walpack, NJ,
presently, is to do a DNA test, which my Chambers family has already done with three of my
relatives who all match.
I would like to know if anyone would like more information and if anyone knows of a
living male Chambers descendant of Joseph, Thomas Whiten, or Minor Chambers who would want
to take a DNA test.
I would pay for the purchase of the test. Currently, it is only $49.00 for a 12 marker
DNA Test that should prove the relationship.
Can anyone help me and may I help anyone with research on this family particularly when
it some to DNA testing to define a connection?
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