Surname Etymology and Meaning of PALMER
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| A pilgrim, so called from the palm-branch, which he constantly carried as a pledge of his having been in the Holy Land. "Here is a holy Palmer come, From Salem first, and last from Rome." Scott's Marmion. Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857). |
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