When Mary Cook was born on 25 February 1823, in Shettleston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Adam Cook, was 37 and her mother, Elisabeth Gilmour, was 33. She married John Brown on 8 April 1843, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Calton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 7 June 1903, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, 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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