When Merril Ralph Banks was born on 30 July 1909, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Junius Crossland Banks, was 26 and his mother, Edna Myrtle Hackett, was 26. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1929 and lived in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 5 March 1931, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Utah, 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 NamesTaken from BIOGRAPHY OF EDNA MYRTLE HACKETT BANKS BY her sister, May H. Marsh "Merril was a perfect type of splendid manhood and those of us who knew him can understand in part, the loss his loved on …
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