Marvin Alonso Carballo Vargas

Brief Life History of Marvin Alonso

When Marvin Alonso Carballo Vargas was born on 30 October 1939, in Orotina, Alajuela, Costa Rica, his father, Miguel Bertali del Socorro Carballo Carvajal, was 35 and his mother, Belarmina Elba Victoria de Jesús Vargas Arguedas, was 28.

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Family Time Line

Miguel Bertali del Socorro Carballo Carvajal
1904–1997
Belarmina Elba Victoria de Jesús Vargas Arguedas
1911–1986
Marvin Alonso Carballo Vargas
1939–
Rita Carballo Vargas
1941–

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  • Marvin Alonso Carballo Vargas, "Costa Rica, Civil Registration, 1823-1975"

World Events (3)

1948

Civil War. Rafael Angel Calderon Guradia refuses to step down for election winner Otilio Ulate. Don Pepe Figueres Ferrer leads the revolution against Calderon and topples the government after 40 days of fighting.

1987

The Central American countries sign a peace plan. Devised by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias Sanchez, it is signed by the Central American countries of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala which have been in the midst of civil wars. Arias wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

2006

Public workers strike in protest at free trade deal with the U.S. Costa Rica is the only country in the region that has yet to ratify the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Carlos, Jorge, Manuel, Pedro, Roberto, Enrique, Jesus, Juan, Luis, Fernando, Francisco.

Spanish and Galician: from carballo ‘oak’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous oak tree or in an oak wood, or a habitational name from any of several villages so named in Galicia.

Asturian-Leonese: topographic name from a Castilianized form of carbayu ‘oak’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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