Brief Life History of Hulda
When Hulda Cook was born on 26 April 1745, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ebenezer Cook, was 25 and her mother, Phebe Blakeslee, was 23.
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- Hulda Cook, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Hulda Cook, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hulda Cook -
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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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