Last name: MCPHERSON
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MCPHERSON : This last name is indexed 100,509 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MCPHERSON : Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac a' Phearsain ‘son of the parson or priest’ (see Parsons).
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