Brief Life History of Celissa
When Celissa Cook was born on 16 September 1796, in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Zimri Cook Sr., was 24 and her mother, Joanna Ballou, was 21. She married Captain Sumner Ballou on 16 June 1815, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 30 July 1861, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Celissa Ballon in household of Sumner Ballon, "United States Census, 1850"
- Clissa Cook, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Celissa Ballou, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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