Brief Life History of William
When William Cook was christened on 8 October 1786, in Lilleshall, Shropshire, England, his father, John Cook, was 37 and his mother, Susannah Evans, was 28. He died in 1799, in his hometown, at the age of 13, and was buried in Lilleshall, Shropshire, England.
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- William Cooke, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Cook -
Parents and Siblings
1749–1836 Male
1758–1833 Female
Siblings (8)
1782–1796 Male
1784– Male
1786–1799 Male
1787–1867 Male
1789– Male
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World Events (2)
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
1789 · The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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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