Brief Life History of Ralph
When Ralph Cook was born about 1795, in Londonderry, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Ralph Cook, was 46 and his mother, Jane, was 37. He died in 1836, at the age of 42.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Ralph Cook - Published information: birth: about 1795; Londonderry, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada
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1823
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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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