Violet Elizabeth Wicks was born in 1905 in Chertsey. Her parents were William Herbert Wicks (1868-?) and Fanny Clark (c1883-?), who married in 1904 in Chertsey. Siblings:
May Wicks (c1904-?)
Mary Rose Wicks (1905-1998), twin of Violet; m.1924 in Chertsey to Sydney George Cook (1904-1974), later lived in Thanet, Kent; 2 children: Sidney C. W. B. Cook (1925) and Peggy V. R. Cook (1926)