Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Cook was born on 23 January 1798, in Manchester, Guysborough, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Benjamin Cook, was 31 and her mother, Philomela Hull Cook, was 30. She married James Randall on 25 January 1818, in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 4 July 1876, in Bayfield, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bayfield, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Mary Cook, "Nova Scotia, Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896"
- Elizabeth Cook, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Mary Elizabeth Randall, "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955"
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1822
The first burials in the Bayfield Saint Mary the Virgin Anglican Cemetery were of Mary Tuttle Randal in 1822 and her Husband Elisha in 1828.
1823
Oldest Grave Seen in Memorial List
1869
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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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