Parson Family History
Parson Name Meaning
English: from Middle English persone, parsoun
‘parish priest’, ‘parson’ (Old French persone, from Latin
persona ‘person’, ‘character’), hence a status name for a
parish priest or perhaps a nickname for a devout man. The reasons for
the semantic shift from ‘person’ to ‘priest’ are not certain; the most
plausible explanation is that the local priest was regarded as the
representative person of the parish. The phonetic change from
-er- to -ar- was a regular development in Middle
English.Americanized form of one or more like-sounding
Jewish names.Americanized spelling of Swedish
Pärsson, Persson (see Persson).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Parson Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Parson families
 182 - 362  61 - 181 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Parson families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Parson Family Origin
Parson Emigration Information (US)
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Parson Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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