Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Cook was born on 13 August 1841, in Brabourne, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Cook, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Haywood, was 39. She died on 6 January 1850, at the age of 8.
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- Jane Cook, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Jane Cook, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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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