When Frederick Cook was born on 17 April 1812, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Cooke, was 45 and his mother, Sarah Hilton, was 40. He married Sarah Elizabeth Davis on 9 June 1833, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States in 1881 and Hillsdale, Garfield, Utah, United States in 1884. In 1870, at the age of 58, his occupation is listed as laborer in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 24 February 1895, in Spry, Garfield, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Spry Cemetery, Panguitch, Garfield, 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 NamesFrederick Cooke - Faithful Mormon Pioneer (As told by Susan Alice Cooke Zabriskie - granddaughter of Frederick Cooke) Frederick is the son of William Cooke and Sarah Hilton, born April 17, 1812, i …
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