Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Cook was born on 2 February 1887, in Eardley, Pontiac, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, her father, William George Cook, was 36 and her mother, Minerva Elizabeth Almira Simmons, was 29. She married John Lorne Dunton Richards on 25 September 1907, in Aylmer, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Canada East, British Colonial America in 1901. She died on 14 September 1979, in Aylmer, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 92, and was buried in Pink Cemetery, Aylmer, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
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Sources (3)
- Mary Cook in household of William Cook, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Mary Cook Richards, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Richards in household of William George Cook, "Canada Census, 1911"
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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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