When Vida Margaret Burks was born on 7 July 1897, in Ontario, Canada, her father, John Burks, was 47 and her mother, Cynthia Ann Potter, was 42. She lived in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada in 1901.
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English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): habitational name from Birks in Cumberworth (Yorkshire) or from a minor place of this name in another county, named from Middle English birkes, berkes ‘the birches’. If from Staffordshire, the name may be a variant of Birch .
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