When Louisa "Jane" Cook was born on 4 April 1863, in North Carolina, United States, her father, John M. Cook, was 37 and her mother, Dovie Spivey, was 25. She married Francis Marion Parker on 16 February 1881, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Lower Hominy Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years. She died on 18 May 1924, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Sardis Methodist Church Cemetery, Buncombe, North Carolina, 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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