Mary Cook

Brief Life History of Mary

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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Family Time Line

John Brown
1820–1866
Mary Cook
1823–1903
Marriage: 8 April 1843
William Melville Brown
1844–1920
Walter Cook Brown Sr
1847–1927
Adam Cook Brown
1849–1887
David Cook Brown
1852–1935

Sources (45)

  • Mary Brown in household of John Brown, "Scotland Census, 1851"
  • 1823-Mary Cook, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-RF98-SX?cc=1803977

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World Events (8)

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

1832 · The Scottish Reform Act

The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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I [Leon Brown] was born on August 13, 1903, in Salt Lake City, Utah. My mother was Nellie Burt Brown and my father was John David Brown. My Grandmother Burt was of the John Burt and Gibson Condie fa …

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