Brief Life History of Henry Augustus
When Henry Augustus Cook was born on 12 December 1835, in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Joseph Bartlett Cook, was 39 and his mother, Thankful Benson, was 36. He married Sarah Hale Rawson on 12 December 1856, in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years and Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 7 November 1898, in Whitinsville, Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Henry A Cook, "United States Census, 1860"
- Henry Augustus Cook, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Henry A. Cook, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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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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