When Alfred Banks was born on 21 April 1881, in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Banks, was 45 and his mother, Harriet Fisher, was 36. He married Annie Eliza Johnson in 1919, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died on 10 November 1946, in Longton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 65, and was buried in Longton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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