When Jonathan Parmenter was born on 15 January 1703, in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Parmenter, was 54 and his mother, Thomasin Rice, was 41. He married Mary Spring on 30 March 1726, in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 12 April 1734, in his hometown, at the age of 31, and was buried in North Cemetery, Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English parmenter, parminter ‘tailor’ (Old French parementier, from Late Latin parmentarius), which could denote not only a tailor but also a maker of facings and trimmings or a furrier.
Possibly also an altered form of French (and Walloon and Flemish) Parmentier , a cognate of 1 above. Compare Permenter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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