PERRIER. An ancient and noble family of Brittany, traced in tlie archives of the College Heraldique at Paris, to the tentli century, and to the ancient dukes and princes of that province. The first of tlie name who settled in Ireland, was Mark du Perrier, who expatriated himself at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1G85. B.L.G. The surname is perhaps a corruption of poirier, a pear-tree, and so analogous to Appletree, Plumtree, kc. De la Perere, Del Perer. H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.