Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Cook was born about 1736, in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Archbald Cook, was 43 and her mother, Elisabeth Bready, was 38. She married John Colquhoun on 11 February 1757, in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters.
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- Margaret Cook, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Margaret Cook in entry for David Colquhoun, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Margaret Cook in entry for James Colquhoun, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Middle English cok, coke, cook, couk, cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew .
Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above), but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’, such as German and Jewish Koch , Dutch Kook , Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk , Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar , North German Kuk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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