When Stanley Barvinek was born on 7 March 1895, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, his father, John J Barvinek, was 27 and his mother, Mary Bohac, was 21. He married Frances Mitvalsky in 1920. He died on 2 December 1952, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States.
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of numerous places (in Derbys., Durham, Gloucs., Staffs., Wilts., and Yorks.) so called from Old English stān ‘stone’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’. This is well established as a given name, and has been widely used as such since the 1880s. It had been in occasional use over a century earlier. Its popularity seems to have stemmed at least in part from the fame of the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley ( 1841–1904 ), who was born in Wales as John Rowlands but later took the name of his adoptive father, a New Orleans cotton dealer.
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