Sentence examples for immediate parentage from inspiring English sources

Originally, children each generation were given last names indicating their immediate parentage; thus Simon Johnson might be the son of John Frederickson, who was the son of Frederick Stephenson.

The most immediate cause of the current civil war in Ivory Coast was the exclusion from the 2000 Presidential election of one candidate because of his foreign parentage.

Why lie about her parentage?

Their father is Breton from Vietnamese parentage.

Nothing is known of his parentage.

Flory was born of Huguenot-German parentage.

Agricola was born of obscure parentage.

Parentage and legality of status are not.

Here the parentage becomes more muddled.

Jessica Ennis's parentage is just normal.

Rumors of his parentage were always rife.