When Erastus Millard Banning was born on 25 November 1812, in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Philemon Fuller Banning, was 25 and his mother, Mary Millard, was 19. He married Almena Hall on 2 May 1834, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1865 and Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 25 March 1883, in West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 70.
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English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Banning, which might be a pet form of Old English Banna (see Bann 2).
Dutch and German: habitational name from a farm so named, which once belonged to a certain Banno and his kin. The personal name Banno is possibly a form of an ancient Germanic Bern- ‘bear’ name. The farm name Banning has been located in several places in Gelderland. In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of the Dutch cognate Bannink.
History: The Bannings were an important family in Amsterdam from the 15th century on. Rembrandt's famous painting The Night Watch (16th century) depicts the militia company of captain Frans Banning Cocq.
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