Brief Life History of Nancy M
When Nancy M Cook was born in 1830, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States, her father, Alexander M Cook, was 52 and her mother, Mary Griffith, was 31. She married Isaac Henry Wright Moore in 1859. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Middle Township, Hendricks, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 21 November 1901, at the age of 71.
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- Nancy Moore in household of Isaac Moore, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Nancy M. Cook - Published information: birth-name: Nancy M. Cook
- 21 Nov 1901 Nancy Cook, "Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1833
Historical Information 1833 - Hendricks, Indiana, United States
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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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