When Elizabeth Banks was born on 11 January 1735, in York, York, Maine, United States, her father, Moses Banks, was 45 and her mother, Ruth Weare, was 39. She married Benjamin Milliken on 26 August 1754, in York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 14 June 1766, in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 31.
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Historical Boundaries: 1760: Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Cumberland, Maine, United States
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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