PARKER

PARKER. An officer who had the surYeillance of a park for some royal or noble personage. Collins traces the Earl of 3Iacclesfield's family to Thomas le Parker, temp, ■ Edward III. The extinct baronet family, Parker of Ratton, traced their pedigree to temp. Edward I. in Sussex. Le Pai'kere, Le Parker, Parcarius, &c., H.R.

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