Where does my fdamily name come from ?

Question:does anyone have any information on my surname or any free decent sites where i could find out any history on it. most of the ones ive looked at all charge a price and are quite complicated. my surname is parkin.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: does anyone have any information on my surname or any free decent sites where i could find out any history on it. most of the ones ive looked at all charge a price and are quite complicated. my surname is parkin.

According to the brief article here,
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx...
It is English.

An excellent site for getting started (for free) with family research is http://www.familysearch.org/

I typed in Parkin, and I immediately saw many records of Parkin's in England, like christening and things.

I hope this helps!

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name
Parkin
English (mainly Yorkshire): from the Middle English personal name Perkin, Parkin, a pet form of Peter with the diminutive suffix -kin. (The change from -er- to -ar- was a characteristic phonetic development in Old French and Middle English.)
Hope this helps.