Talk:Mansur

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Can somebody add Rabbi Eli Mansour, A famous Rabbi in the Syrian Jewish community(in America) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.241.193 (talk) 01:03, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

English surname Mansur

Although the name/surname of Arabic origin is globally more widely known, this page currently omits mention of the Mansur surname of English (and possibly Norman) origin, reportedly with early roots in Westmorland, which apparently has no connection to the Arabic word. On Wikipedia, Charles H. Mansur may be of this heritage. (My own family background includes Mansurs of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.) In English it has sometimes been spelled Manser, and misspelled in some older US Censuses as Mansar.--A12n (talk) 07:20, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

See also new article on Joseph W. Mansur.--A12n (talk) 03:53, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Further to this subject, two external sources, the first of which place the name (which like the Romanized Arabic name has variant spellings) in a different context than the Swiss Manser: A short paper, "The Origins of the Mansurs of New England"; and a genealogical work, Mary Rebecca Ellis, 1926, The House of Mansur, Jefferson City, Mo.: The Hugh Stephens Press. I don't anticipate editing this article, but leave the info here in case it is of use to someone who might undertake to do so.--A12n (talk) 11:01, 28 August 2015 (UTC)