From The Parkhurst Family Journal Vol. 3, No. 4 October 1997. Editor William P. Parkhurst writes on page 8 an article he called "Best Guess?". It says, Now then, a theory I have is that Parkhursts did come from the Isle of Wight, but they were not known as Parkhursts when they lived there. As you know a lot of people got their names from whence they came. In this account we have three people who were caretakers of the "Parkhurst Forest", and when they migrated to the mainland and were asked where they came from what do you suppose was their answer? "Parkhurst", maybe? It sounds plausible to me.


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