Devoted To The Discussions of The Cook and Allied Families Lines.

Descendants and Ancestry of James Cook & Rebecca Read

(Westford, MA. - Milton, VT. - Plattsburgh, NY - Chateaugay, NY)

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this family's genealogy.

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This distinguished surname, with forty entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography", and having no less than fifty Coats of Arms, is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is an occupational name for a cook, seller of cooked meats, or the keeper of an eating house. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century "coc", ultimately from the Latin "cocus", cook, and the surname has a particularly early first recording. It also has the distinction of being recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, when one Galter Coc was noted in Essex. The surname is also widespread in early Scottish records.