Nellie Maud Banks was born in 1881, in Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom. She married Arthur Ernest Parnell Molesworth on 28 November 1910, in New Zealand. She died on 2 January 1956, in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 75.
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.
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