Brief Life History of Job
When Job Cook was born before 30 March 1788, in Clutton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Cooke, was 42 and his mother, Anne Cooke, was 25. He married Martha Carter on 21 September 1807, in Clutton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Mynyddislwyn, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 2 October 1860, in Farrington Gurney, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, and was buried in Farrington Gurney, Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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- Job Cook, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914
- Job Cook in entry for Andrew Cook, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
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1789 · The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano." Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer.
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
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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