Brief Life History of Lorne Blair
When Lorne Blair Cook was born on 8 March 1913, in Taber, Alberta, Canada, his father, Arnold Blair Cook, was 28 and his mother, Minnie Maretta Van Orman, was 19. He married Beryl Lillian Scott on 27 January 1940, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He lived in Alberta, Canada in 1916 and Coalhurst, Lethbridge County, Alberta, Canada in 1931. He died on 7 July 1976, at the age of 63, and was buried in Taber Memorial Garden, Taber, Alberta, Canada.
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- Blair Cook, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Beryl L. Scott in the Alberta, Canada, Marriages Index,1898-1942
- Lorne Blair Cook, "Find A Grave Index"
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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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