DOE

DOE. From the animal, like Hart, Buck, Roe, &c. Those mythical ' parties' to so many legal proceedings. " JonN Doe and Richard Roe," are evidently of forest extraction, aud point to the days when forest laws prevailed and venison was a sacred thing. In H.R. there is a John le Doe.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.