When Emilie Vincent was born on 26 September 1903, in Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States, her father, Euphemon William Vincent, was 19 and her mother, Selonia Suire, was 18. She married Otis P. Meaux on 9 July 1921. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ward Six, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States in 1910 and Ward Nine, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States in 1940. She died on 8 June 1996, in Vermilion, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Cossinade Cemetery, Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States.
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English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and Spanish: from the personal name Vincent, Latin Vincentius, a derivative of vincens, genitive vincentis, present participle of vincere ‘to conquer’. The name was borne by a 3rd-century Spanish martyr widely venerated in the Middle Ages and by a 5th-century monk and writer of Lérins, as well as various other early Christian saints.
Irish: the English surname (see 1 above) has been established in the south of Ireland since the 17th century, and has also been adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Dhuibhinse ‘son of the dark man of the island’.
History: The surname Vincent of French origin (see 1 above) is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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