What I have found is that the name parker is not of English origin. According to sources, it is an old English name with history dating back to the old Anglo Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is an occupational name that was given to people who were employed as ‘park keepers’. Some of these parkers were actually responsible for large grounds as they were employed by the noble men to take care of their estates. Later on the name was adopted as a surname and the first family to have been found with this name was the parker family living in Derbyshire. The motto of the family was ‘to the faithful there is reward’. Many families moved from one place to another and the name parker could have gone to Germany with any immigrants.
