Birks of Hemingfield

The Birks family lived at Hemingfield near Wombwell, Yorkshire for many years.

The earliest record is of Richard Birks b 1634 who married Grace Bradley in 1674 at Darfield. Their children:

• Richard Birks 1674
• Thomas Birks 1675
• Alice Birks 1677
• Joseph Birks abt 1679
• William Birks abt 1679
• John Birks abt 1683
• Grace Birks abt 1685
• Elizabeth Birks abt 1689
• Samuel Birks abt 1693
• Benjamin Birks abt 1697

Richard Birks (1674-1743) married Dorothy Thomas (b 1684). Their children:

• Richard Birks 1709
• Dorothy Birks abt 1713
• John Birks 1721
• Richard Birks 1732

John Birks (1721-1785) married Sarah Bramhall in 1769 at Darfield. Their children:

• Mary Birks 1771
• John Birks 1771
• Richard Birks 1774, father of the Canadian Birks families.
• Samuel Birks 1779

John Birks (1771-1860) was the lawyer for the bank "Becket, Birks & Co", and became known as the "honest Yorkshire lawyer". He married Elizabeth Swift in 1803 at Darfield. Their children:

• Catherine Birks
• Bertha Birks 1804
• Jane Birks 1809
• William Birks 1811
• Margaret Birks 1812
• Arthur Birks 1814
• Arthur Birks 1815
• Lucy Birks 1817
• Frances Birks 1821

Bertha Birks (1804-1886) married John Garland of Netherwood Hall in 1830.

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