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Kir', or ker' are related to the French `cher' or `cheri' - dear', `beloved' - which seems more likely. But `car' or `cer' in Cornish, the Welsh `car' and the Breton All the standard references show that as a noun, in Old CelticĪnd Gaelic, `ker' or `kerre', `car' or `carr', and the Breton `karr', usually meant a wagon or chariot (thus the modern `car'). Languages divide into two principal dialects: the northern Goidelic (Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx) and the southern Brythonic, which includes Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Paris Review, telling him that `ker' meant `water' and `ouac' was `the language of' in Gaelic, the name being a derivation of the Irish `Kerwick.' Jack never revealed the source of his etymology. He gave another derivation to Ted Berrigan in an interview for One of the Iroquois nations is named Kerouac. They started in Ireland, travelled to Wales, then Cornwall, then Brittany, where they learned the old French, then 400 years ago to Canada. People bug me, they say what the hell kind of a name is Kerouac anyway? It's easy.
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He visited Paris and Brittany with the ostensible purpose of examining French genealogical records, but by then he was a complete alcoholic, the trip turned into a pathetic comedy of errors and he was unable to achieve his aim. Jack was fascinated by his surname and told many conflicting stories of its origin.
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In this way his maternal family names were perpetuated for another generation. Name, and Jean the maiden name of her mother Josephine. Jack was christened `Jean Louis Kirouac (Keroack), son of Leo Kerouack and Gabrielle L'Evesque.' On his birth certificate he was called Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, Louis being Gabrielle's father's christian Not Indians Jack got his Indian blood from his mother.
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His three sons married French-Canadian women, Scholars have been unable to substantiate Kerouac'sĪristocratic claim, but instead traced his family to a bourgeois French merchant, Maurice-Louis-Alexander Le Brice de Kerouack, who married in Saint Ignace, Quebec in 1732 and died in 1736. There is a hamlet called Kerouac near Rosporden, halfway between Quimper and Quimperle in West Finistere, off the Cote de Cournaille, and other hamlets nearby have similar names. Kerouac of Cornwall, Brittany, 1750 or so, was granted land along the Riviere du Loup after victory of Wolfe over Montcalm his descendants married Indians (Mohawk and Caughnawaga) and became potato farmers.' Kerouac is a Breton name: Jack claimed French aristocratic blood, and in the publisher's questionnaire for Lonesome Traveller, he wrote, `My people go back to Breton France, first North American ancestor Baron Alexander Louis Lebris de Ha! Jack's ancestors were among the earliest generations of French settlers to clear the forests and farm the banks of the Saint Lawrence. ' One wonders what grim humour caused the settlers to name a nearby village Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Kerouac described it, though he never went there: `The winds bring plague dust from all the way to Baffin and HudsonĪnd where roads end and the Iroquois Arctic begins, the utterly hopeless place to which the French came when they came to the New World. Was a brutally hard life: five months of cold and snow, then back-breaking work digging potatoes out of the black earth. The Kirouacks were potato farmers, eking out a living in an inhospitable land of bitter winters, black flies and mosquitoes. Riviere-du-Loup itself, about 45 miles to the west, on the southern shore of the great Saint Lawrence River. Jack's father was born Joseph Alcide Leon Kirouack on 5 August 1889 in Saint Hubert, a village on a lake in the foothills of the Notre Dame Mountains in the county of Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec.