Brief Life History of Elijah
When Elijah Cook was born on 26 January 1732, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Josiah Cook, was 24 and his mother, Hannah Sparrow, was 20. He died before 1737, in his hometown.
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- Elijah Cook, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elijah Cook - birth: 8 June 1737;
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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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