Park Family History
Park Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from
Middle English, Old French parc ‘park’; a metonymic
occupational name for someone employed in a park or a topographic name
for someone who lived in or near a park. In the Middle Ages a park was
a large enclosed area where the landowner could hunt game.English and Scottish: from a medieval pet form of the personal
name Peter. Compare Parkin.Swedish: ornamental name
from park ‘park’.Korean: variant of
Pak.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Park
Name Distribution of Park Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Park families
 789 - 1,575  264 - 788 |
 1 - 263  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Park families
|
770 - 1,537 257 - 769 |
1 - 256 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Park census records
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Park Family Origin
Park Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Park Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Park Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Park census records
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Military Service by Park
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