Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Cook was born in 1782, his father, John Cook, was 34 and his mother, Ann Powers, was 27. He died on 7 May 1782, at the age of 0, and was buried in Claybrooke Parva, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Joseph Cook, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Joseph Cook, "England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991"
- Joseph Cook, "England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991"
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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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