Sir John Parr Knight
- Born: Kirkby-Kendal, Westmorland, England
- Marriage: Maud Leyburne 938
- Died: After 1350, Kirkby-Kendal, Westmorland, England 938
 General Notes:
~Topographer & Genealogist, "Early Pedigrees of the Parr Family," p. 354, Sir John de Parre, Knt. of Parre, living about 1350, m. Matilda, daughter of Sir Richard de Leyborne. 938
Noted events in his life were:
• Family Background. 938
The family name of Parr is derived from a manor and towship in the parish of Prescot, Lancashire, where the family were seated for several centuries. It is not known when they first settled there, or when the name was first assumed. Parr is not noticed in Domesday or in the Testa de Nevill.
The first record relating to the name of a place named Parr is dated 35 Edward III, or 1361, being the Inq. p. m. of William de Darce, by which he found to have held the manors of Skelmersdale, Whiston, Speke, and Parre, with the advowson of Prescot. The first time the surname Parr appears is at least as early as during the reign of Edward II, and the name of "Henry de Parr" occurs as a witness to a deed dated in the twelfth of that monarch's reign or 1318l After this period, the name frequently shows up in Lancashire records.
~Topographer and Genealogist, Vol. III, p. 353
John married Maud Leyburne, daughter of Sir Richard Leyburne Knight and Unknown.938
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