When Matilda Marguerite Banks was born on 3 March 1846, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Clement P Banks, was 47 and her mother, Catherine Lea Vanhook, was 43. She married William O. Butler in 1868, in Adair, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 7 Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 6 December 1922, at the age of 76, and was buried in Butler Cemetery, Adair, Kentucky, United States.
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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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