When James Banks was born in 1824, in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, John Banks, was 45 and his mother, Mary E Farnsworth, was 31. He married Elizabeth Banks about 1847, in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years and Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. He died on 7 July 1905, in Tremont, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 81.
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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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