St. Louis Case
Autor: STL11 • January 29, 2012 • Case Study • 771 Words (4 Pages) • 1,595 Views
St. Louis
• Surname--- a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. A family name.
• Matrilineal kinship--- a system in which descent is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors. Matrilineal also a societal system in which one belongs to one's mother's lineage, which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.
• Patrilineal kinship--- system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage. It generally involves the name of property, names or titles through the guy line.
• Patriarchal family structure--- social system in which the role of the male as the primary authority figure is central to social organization, and where fathers hold authority over women, children, and property.
From what I was told my last name came from the French. I was given the last name whenever they had won a fight. They were sitting around a camp fire and then one of the officers elected someone the name St. Louis. I never found out what battle they won or who all was there. But it’s pretty interesting finding out who all you get your name from.
From the research I have looked at I got the last name St. Louis from the French. This is a French vocational surname. It originates from one of the various places in France called St. Louis, and particularly the town of St. Louis near the mouth of the Rhone river in the south of the country. However there is no evidence that the surname is specifically from this region as the surviving church registers for the area are few and far between, as most were destroyed during the French Revolution of 1792 - 1798 when the church itself was banned. Locational names in many ways are the most obvious to see, but equally because they are from names, they are usually the most difficult for people to trace. From names are ones given to people after they left a particular village of town, and moved elsewhere, it being an easy form of identification to call a stranger by the name of the place from whence they came. Traditionally the kings of France for many centuries
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