Brief Life History of Ellen Victoria
When Ellen Victoria Cook was born on 25 August 1902, in Lorne, Manitoba, Canada, her father, George Henry Cook, was 37 and her mother, Anna Maria Kitching, was 27. She lived in Manitoba, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 30 December 1992, in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 90, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada.
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Family Time Line
Sources (6)
- Ellen Cook, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Ellen Victoria Cook, "Find a Grave Index"
- Ellen Cook in household of George H Cook, "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926"
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World Events (1)
1982
Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
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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