Brief Life History of Richard
Richard Cook was born on 17 February 1874. He had at least 1 daughter with Mary Elizabeth Riley. He lived in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died on 22 July 1944, at the age of 70.
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Sources (3)
- Richard Cook, "Find A Grave Index"
- Richard Cook in entry for Jessie Gowland Cook, "England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950"
- Richard Cook, "England and Wales National Register, 1939"
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World Events (8)
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
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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