Brief Life History of Ruth
When Ruth Cook was born on 30 July 1751, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Francis Cooke, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Bryant, was 23. She married Rufus Smith on 3 November 1770, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 19 February 1825, in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Lord Cemetery, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Ruth Cook, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Ruth Cook, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Ruth Cook Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1760
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1776
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1789
Historical Boundaries: 1789: Hancock, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Hancock, Maine, United States
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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