From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 10:57:25, Jenny M Benson    
   wrote:   
   >On 22/08/2020 08:56, John Armstrong wrote:   
   >> It happened once while I was at a Scottish boarding school in the 60s.   
   >> Major, minor, and the youngest was "terts", short for "tertius", Latin   
   >> for "third".   
   >>   
   Odd, as maior and minor don't mean first and second, but bigger and   
   smaller (which usually mapped OK, as the older boy usually _was_   
   bigger), and why I had a vague feeling minimus (smallest) might have   
   been used when there was a third.   
   >   
   >An uncle-by-marriage of my mother's had a brother whose forenames were   
   >John Middleton Tertius and he was known generally as Tertius.  Their   
   >father's forenames were John Middleton as I presume their grandfather's   
   >were also.   
   >   
   Was he the third after a father and grandfather, or the third to the   
   same parents? (I have one ancestor* called Thirzen, who was the   
   thirteenth [surviving - fourteenth altogether I think] child, and I like   
   to think the parents were just too tired to think of another name for   
   her.   
   *not direct ascendant, a sibling of one [so a child of one]; is that   
   still an ancestor?)   
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