Minstrell Family History
Minstrell Name Meaning
from Middle English minstral ‘minstrel’ (Old French menestral ministral). As well as singing playing music and telling tales a minstrel might also perform other types of entertainment such as juggling: note the example of Hugo Harper de Wolpet tregettour alias dictus Hugo Mynstrall de Bildeston jogelour 1483 in
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016