TOTEMISM AND NAMES - PARROT - Of this as a surname we cannot be sure that it is not a form of Pierrot.

PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES - The episcopal registers of the thirteenth century show us that the clergy who were ordained, and those inducted into livings, were known by the villages and manor whence they came. Many names that now appear to us as nicknames are actually corruptions, usually of place-names. They ceased to be generally understood, and were assimilated to some name more or less phonetically equivalent, as Greenhorn for Grenoven, a place near Tavistock; Parrott for Pierrot; Loveless for Lovelace.... (3)