Thomas Cook

Brief Life History of Thomas

When Thomas Cook was born on 7 January 1834, in East Zorra Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, Daniel Cook VI, was 35 and his mother, Mary Maria Fuller, was 35. He married Charity Miller on 15 September 1858, in Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Harwich, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He died in August 1905, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 71.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Cook
1834–1905
Charity Miller
1839–1918
Marriage: 15 September 1858
William Cook
1860–1937
Janet Elizabeth Cook
1862–1932
Cornelius Cook
1864–1943
David Henry Cook
1867–1943
George Cook
1869–1944
Thomas A. Cook
1871–1960
Joseph Cook
1873–1942
Frederick Edward Cook
1876–1966
Cora May Cook
1879–1973
Catharine Cook
1883–1883

Sources (37)

  • Thomas Cook, "Canada Census, 1871"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Thomas M Cook - Published information: birth-name: Thomas M Cook
  • Thomas Cook, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1840

Historical Boundaries: 1840: Buchanan, Missouri , United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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