PARR. In Eng. Surn. i. 169, I ventured to derive this surname from Peter, and this, through the Fr. Pierre, is probably the true origin of it in some cases ; but a correspondent (the Rev. Henry Parr) says : " it is derived from the manor of Parr in Lancashire, which is also a township, and of late years has become a cliapelry. There all my ancestors were settled from the XIII. century, and there is sufficient reason for concluding, that every family bearing the name has branched out from the same parent stock." B.L.G. Nichols' Topographer, iii. 353.

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