Banks Family History
Banks Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on
the slope of a hillside or by a riverbank, from northern Middle
English banke (from Old Danish banke). 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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Banks Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Banks families
 1,748 - 3,494  583 - 1,747 |
 1 - 582  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Banks families
|
183 - 363 62 - 182 |
1 - 61 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Banks census records
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Banks Family Origin
Banks Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Banks Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Banks Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Banks census records
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