Brief Life History of Edith Caroline
When Edith Caroline Cook was born on 9 July 1934, in Eastport, Washington, Maine, United States, her father, Ambrose Melvin Cook, was 55 and her mother, Ethel Theresa McShea, was 39. She died on 16 November 1999, in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 65.
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Parents and Siblings
1879–1964 Male
1894–1954 Female
Siblings (15)
1914– Female
1916–1916 Female
1917–1919 Female
1918–1918 Male
1919–1989 Male
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World Events (8)
1935 · The FBI is Established
Age 1
1937 · Lewiston–Auburn Shoe Strike
Age 3
1954 · First Atomic Submarine Launched
Age 20
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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