Brief Life History of Timothy
When Timothy Cook was born about 1758, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Job Cook, was 43 and his mother, Jemima Grinnell, was 29. He died after 1780, at the age of 8242.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Legacy NFS Source: Timothy Cook - Published information: birth-name: Timothy Cook
Parents and Siblings
1716–1775 Male
1730–1790 Female
Siblings (3)
1756–1815 Female
about 1758–after 1780 Male
1760–1831 Male
World Events (4)
1776
Age 18
1776 · Rhode Island Declares Independence
Age 18
after 1780 · French Occupy Newport
Age NaN
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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