Brief Life History of Andrew Stevenson
When Andrew Stevenson Cook was born in 1838, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Cook, was 38 and his mother, Margery Stevenson, was 33. He lived in Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died on 1 February 1893, in Sparta, Randolph, Illinois, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Oakdale, Washington, Illinois, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Andrew S Cook in household of James Cook, "United States Census, 1850"
Parents and Siblings
1800– Male
1805–1855 Female
Siblings (2)
1838–1893 Male
1843– Male
World Events (8)
1840
Age 2
1846
Age 8
1863
Age 25
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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