Brief Life History of Valentine
When Valentine Cook was born in 1794, in Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Valentine Cook, was 31 and his mother, Ann Hemsley, was 29. He died in July 1794, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Valentine Cook - Church record: birth-name: Valentine Cook
- Burial Record for Valentine 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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