Parsons Family History
Parsons Name Meaning
English: occupational name for the servant of a parish priest
or parson, or a patronymic denoting the child of a parson, from the
possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see
Parson).English: many early examples are found with
prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are
habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect
occupational names for servants employed at the parson’s house.Irish: usually of English origin (see above), but sometimes a
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Phearsain, which is of
Highland Scottish origin (see McPherson).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Parsons Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Parsons families
 1,790 - 3,577  597 - 1,789 |
 1 - 596  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Parsons families
|
16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Parsons Family Origin
Parsons Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Parsons Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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