Message: "Re: Parish / used to be Parishione"

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Re: Parish / used to be Parishione

by Sean Foglai (guest)

8/4/2004, 8:01 PM

It would seem rather obvious that the name comes from someone who lived in or near a church district. I suspect the latter is either a French or Italian variant ...

Other similar names would be Churchill, Kirkland, Prescott (Priest's Cottage)...

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- Sagani (guest) +2

8/5/2004, 2:01 PM

In Italian instead of "parish" there are some surnames that derive from "Pieve" an old roman catholic circonscription that have disappeared now.
So here are the surnames:

PIOVANI
PIOVANO
PIOVANELLI
PIOVAN /regional from Venice.

- Anon. (guest) +1

8/18/2004, 9:28 AM

I agree that it is unlikely that 'Parishione' is an Italian surname. The 'sh' combination looks very 'un-Italian' to me.

- Anon. (guest)

8/29/2004, 6:44 AM

Closest I can find is 'Aparicione'.
See www.homunculus.com/babel/sampletext/onomasticon.html
(They say it means 'the apparition (of Christ)')

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