When Orval Alvin Roy Vincent was born on 27 May 1906, in Oregon, United States, his father, William Taswell Vincent, was 31 and his mother, Malinda Elizabeth Centers, was 29. He married Mary La Preal Burbank on 1 July 1925, in Gridley, Butte, California, United States. He lived in Sutter, California, United States in 1935 and Oroville Judicial Township, Butte, California, United States in 1940. He died on 15 March 1987, in Keswick, Shasta, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lawncrest Memorial Park, Redding, Shasta, California, 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.
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