Im trying to figure out my geneology.?

Question

Where would the name Parker be from?

Answer 1

http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Parker.ash...

Parker Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for a gamekeeper employed in a medieval park, from an agent derivative of Middle English "parc" ‘park.PARK: 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. (Note: In Korea, Park is a form of PAK)

’ This surname is also found in Ireland.

Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish names

Parker Civil War Service--4116 (South, or Confederate side, out of 1,050,000 veterans ); 5255  (North, or Union side, out of 2,213,363 veterans)

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?na...

Surname: Parker

This great and noble surname is English. Borne by the Earls of Morley and Macclesfield; the Barons of Boringdon and Monteagle, and having more than sixty Coats of Arms, it is ultimately of French occupational origins. It described an official in charge of the extensive hunting parks of a king or wealthy landowner. The derivation is from the words "parchier" or "parquier" meaning "park- keeper". The surname was first recorded in Englnd in the latter half of the 11th Century following the 1066 Norman Invasion, and as such was one of the very earliest surnames on record. Only five percent of the entries in the great Domesday Book of 1086 show people having surnames, and this is one of them. Amongst these very early recordings are examples such as Geoffrey Parchier, in the book of 'Seals' for the county of Northumberland, dated 1145 a. d. and Adam le Parker in the Hundred Rolls of the county of Norfolk for the year 1273. The surname was one of the very first into the new American colonies. William Parker, aged 20, who arrived in the ship Charles of London, in the year 1616, is shown in the records for January 23rd 1624 as being in the "muster" of Susan Bush, of 'Elzabeth Cittie'. Quite what his situation was is far from clear, as Susan Bush herself arrived in 1617, and was only aged 20! The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Anschetil Parcher, which was dated 1086, in the Domesday Book of the county of Somerset, during the reign of King William 1, known as "The Conqueror", 1066 - 1087.  

Answer 2

England. You might enter your grandfather's name at the Mormon (LDS) master genealogy site to begin.

Answer 3

Old French for "keeper of the park," Possibly Norman.

PARKER is an English nickname used for a man who was gamekeeper at a medieval park.

Parker is my family name, I have been able to research them back to the 1500's in Staffordshire UK.

Answer 4

Figuring out where Parker may / may not be from, is not figuring out your genealogy.  In fact, your surname is not your genealogy at all.. your ancestors are.

You have 2 parents, each with a different birth name. Same for grandparents, gr grandparents, and all the way back. Each generation, the number doubles. All of these persons are your ancestors. The basic process for genealogy is to determine WHO those persons are, and always by using records or documents to "prove" the relationship. Nothing to figure out, all of it comes from documentation. The only challenge is to define the right record, and where it might be.

Many people try to start genealogy by using surnames. Doesn't work, doesn't matter. Two easy examples of times when it clearly is useless.. one, you get back 3 generations on dad's side, and stumble onto an adoption, and learn his parents came from Germany. Second example, are African Americans, who often descend from slavery, and had NO surname before 1865.  The name comes from what they chose/ adopted. Having an English (French, etc) last name does not mean anything about where the ancestry comes from, unless the proof leads to an interracial parentage.

Surname etymology is the term for studying where names originated. It is totally distinct from genealogy. Not wrong/right.. just not the same thing.

http://www.cyndislist.com/beginner.htm

If you seriously want to do genealogy, this is a great place to start.  

Answer 5

go see a geologists