When William Cook was born on 26 August 1862, in Throckmorton, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Henry Cook, was 26 and his mother, Maria Elizabeth Robbins, was 23. He married Margaret Jeannette Smart on 19 September 1893, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1866 and lived in Tooele, Utah, United States in 1870 and Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1920. He died on 11 May 1929, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1878: Owyhee, Idaho Territory, United States 1879: Cassia, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: 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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