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Position:Home>Genealogy> Where does my fdamily name come from ?Question:does anyone have any information on my surname or any free decent sites where i could find out any history on it. most of the ones ive looked at all charge a price and are quite complicated. my surname is parkin. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: does anyone have any information on my surname or any free decent sites where i could find out any history on it. most of the ones ive looked at all charge a price and are quite complicated. my surname is parkin. According to the brief article here, http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx... It is English. An excellent site for getting started (for free) with family research is http://www.familysearch.org/ I typed in Parkin, and I immediately saw many records of Parkin's in England, like christening and things. I hope this helps! This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name Parkin English (mainly Yorkshire): from the Middle English personal name Perkin, Parkin, a pet form of Peter with the diminutive suffix -kin. (The change from -er- to -ar- was a characteristic phonetic development in Old French and Middle English.) Hope this helps. |