When Samuel Cook was born on 9 January 1748, in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Cook, was 22 and his mother, Mary Moreton, was 26. He died in 1783, at the age of 35, and was buried in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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