When Vivian Irene Banks was born on 30 January 1925, in Greenwood, Steuben, New York, United States, her father, Homer Banks, was 32 and her mother, Ellen Conlon, was 30. She married Edmond Lawrence on 7 July 1942, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States for about 1 years. She died on 3 May 1993, in Lockport, Niagara, New York, United States, at the age of 68.
English: variant of Bank 5, with excrescent -s. The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’. Compare Bank 6.
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