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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Essex) : occupational name for a maker of facings and trimmings, Middle English, Old French par(e)mentier (from parement ‘fitting’, ‘finishing’, Late Latin paramentum, a derivative of parare ‘to prepare or adorn’).

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