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parish Name Meaning and History

English and Irish: variant spelling of Parrish.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of parish Families in the US in 1920

Number of parish families

113-224

38-112

1-37

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 418 - Messages: 966

Thread	Author	Replies
Parish family from Va, to AL. to Texas	dia51	1
I'm looking for all Parish's with one "R"	workingman75	22
PARISH Mittie RICH 1900-1992	t42NormanIOOF	1
Lora Parish	ForrestSanford64	0
PARISH Agnes H 1891-1989	t42MountOlivet	0
PARISH William L 1887-1955	t42MountOlivet	0
MYERS Margaret L PARISH 1959-1981	t42MountOlivet	0
PARISH William D and Floy Jane	t42MountOlivet	0
Some Parish obits	JIWelsch	0
william john mcintosh parish	joyceclarkson51	0

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