Mike Nason wrote:
> MNASON is found as a surname from 1602, in Warwickshire, to 1854, in
> Gloucestershire.  It is usually found in a context that includes the
> surnames NASON and MASON.  Indeed, there is ample evidence that
> families recorded in the C18/19th as MASON and NASON were descended
> from MNASON lines.

I'd say that "Mnason" is just an orthographic convention, deriving from Acts
21:16.  (And not evidence for Cyprian immigration!)  I don't have a Geneva
Bible to hand, but would expect to find it there, as it occurs in both of
Tyndale's versions.  Census records (and especially modern transcriptions)
are particularly unreliable for spelling, although they may give a clue to
pronunciation.

John Briggs