When Edith Winifred Cook was born on 11 May 1905, in Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States, her father, George Edward Cook, was 32 and her mother, Edith Virginia Justesen, was 25. She married Elder Ernest James Johnson on 15 September 1937, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 31 March 1985, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, 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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