When Margaret Ruth Banks was born on 20 January 1829, in Richland, Ohio, United States, her father, Nathaniel Butler Banks, was 27 and her mother, Anna Barbara Artman, was 19. She married William Morley Black on 5 February 1846, in Fulton, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1852 and lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Orderville, Kane, Utah, United States in 1880. In 1880, at the age of 51, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 29 June 1884, in Salina, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in East Side Cemetery, Salina, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesWilliam Morley Black The Son of John and Mary Cline Black Born Feb. 11, 1826, in Vermillion, Richland County, Ohio William Morley Black, during his last illness, dictated the following autobiograph …
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