When Luke Cook was born on 25 January 1823, in Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, George W Cook, was 38 and his mother, Artulus Collier, was 39. He married Louisa Burton on 18 January 1851, in Trevethin, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1853 and lived in Trevethin, Monmouthshire, Wales in 1851 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1857. He died on 5 April 1900, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Provo, Utah, 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.
Possible Related NamesMy great, great grandmother, Louisa Burton, (who I am named after) and grandfather, Luke Cook, joined the church at nineteen years of age in London. Their parents disowned them when they joined the Mo …
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