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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a gamekeeper, from Middle English park ‘park’ + man ‘man’, ‘servant’, cognate with Parker.
  • English : occupational name denoting the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Park (see Park 2).
  • English : Elias Parkman settled at Dorchester, MA, in or before 1633. He was the ancestor of a wealthy and influential Boston family.

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