When Ida Eliza Cook was born in 1873, in Holt, Missouri, United States, her father, Jacob J. Cook, was 36 and her mother, Caroline Catherine Ahrens, was 29. She married John Elsworth Eckard on 3 October 1893, in Craig, Holt, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Union Township, Holt, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 October 1925, in Webster, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Craig, Holt, Missouri, United States.
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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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