Brief Life History of Birdena
When Birdena Cook was born on 28 May 1883, in Calaveras, California, United States, her father, James Douglas Cook, was 38 and her mother, Catharine Lamb, was 27. She married Jefferson Reid Gillam on 3 April 1902, in San Joaquin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in San Andreas, Calaveras, California, United States for about 20 years and San Andreas Judicial Township, Calaveras, California, United States in 1940.
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Sources (11)
- Cook in entry for Erma May Wells, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Birdie Gillam in household of Jefferson R Gillam, "United States Census, 1940"
- Bertha Cook in entry for William W Wells and Erma M Vernon, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
Spouse and Children
1875–1955 Male
1883– Female
Children (1)
1902–1928 Female
Parents and Siblings
1844–1931 Male
1856–1924 Female
Siblings (5)
1873–1941 Male
1876–1961 Male
1878–1971 Male
1883– Female
1888–1965 Male
World Events (8)
1886
Age 3
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Age 8
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 33
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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