Ralph Cook

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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Family Time Line

Ralph Cook
1750–1827
Jane
1760–
James Cook
1779–1874
Nancy Agnes Cook
1783–1847
Mary Cook
1785–1859
Sarah Jane Margaret Cook
1787–1836
Adam Cook
1787–1864
Ralph Cook
about 1795–1836
Jane Cook
1797–
John Boyd Cook
1789–1864
Elizabeth Cook
1793–

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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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