When Elisha E. Cook was born on 2 September 1866, in Cross Roads Country Harbour, Guysborough, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, James Cook, was 43 and his mother, Charlotte Eve Beiswanger, was 43. He lived in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1866 and Stormont, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871. He died on 2 February 1950, in Lockeport, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Osborne Harbour Cemetery, Osborne Harbour, Shelburne, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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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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