When Samuel Ernest Cook was born on 11 January 1884, in Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Elijah Cook, was 48 and his mother, Violet Phipps, was 38. He married Barbara Cleo Parsons on 18 April 1911, in Marion, Smyth, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marion, Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1910 and Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1920. He died on 1 July 1927, in Alleghany, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 43.
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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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