When Ebenezer Cook was born on 5 March 1721, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Henry Cook, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Towner, was 35. He married Phebe Blakeslee on 10 May 1744, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 29 August 1776, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 55.
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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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