When George Henry Cook was born on 6 June 1836, in Peopleton, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Cook, was 38 and his mother, Sarah, was 44. He married Maria Elizabeth Robbins on 22 October 1861, in Throckmorton, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1866 and lived in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Pershore St Andrew with Pershore Holy Cross, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died on 2 February 1899, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Cassia, Idaho, United States.
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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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