When Hope Cook was born on 28 June 1721, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Cook, was 26 and her mother, Patience Cory, was 26. She married Richard Borden on 12 March 1747, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 8 March 1791, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in North Burial Ground, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, 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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