Are Miners miners?

[Allie]

If my last name is Miner, does that mean that some of my ancestors would have been miners?

 

[mugwortismy cat]

Likely yes. But this would be back in the middle ages

 

[Archie's Mum]

Or could have been from the French Huguenot name ‘Miniers’, still meaning miner. Huguenot’s were French and Belgium Protestants who fled those parts to escape persecution.