Last name: BURKS
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BURKS : This last name is indexed 23,707 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BURKS : 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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