Nancy Cook

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Nancy Cook was born about 1815, in Indiana, United States as the daughter of John Daniel Koch Jr.

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John Daniel Koch Jr
1785–1844
Nancy Cook
about 1815–
Mariah Louise Cook
1817–1846
Parmelia Cook
1817–
Jake Cook
1823–
Laura Cook
1824–
Nancy Cook
1819–
Eli Penwell Cook
1821–1904
Abigail Cook
1822–1864

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    World Events (3)

    1816

    Indiana is the 19th state.

    1819 · Panic! of 1819

    With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

    1820 · Making States Equal

    The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

    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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