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John Cooke led the prosecution which led to the execution of Charles I and was himself executed when Charles II was restored.
Sir Edward Coke from Norfolk was the famous Lord Chief Justice whose writings on the English common law were the definitive legal text for the following 150 years.
Captain James Cook was the famous 18th century English explorer of the Pacific.
Thomas Cook started the Thomas Cook travel agency in the 1860's.
Alistair Cooke was the British-born American journalist best known for his weekly radio address Letter from America.
Sam Cooke from Mississippi was with his hits in the 1960's one of the pioneers of soul.
Peter Cook was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960's.
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The Old English coc, meaning cook, gives the
occupational name of Cook (and also, with the same pronunciation, Coke
and Cooke). Cook in medieval times could also be a seller of
cooked
meats or a keeper of an eating house.
The main surname spellings have been Cook and Cooke. At first the main spelling was Cooke. But by the time of the 1891 census, the Cookes were being outnumbered three to one by the Cooks. The name Cooke, where it appeared, was more in the north. The southeast then had become Cook territory.
Ireland. Cook in Ireland could be an English or Scottish implant or an anglicization of an Irish name. Cookstown in county Tyrone took its name from the Protestant planter and church lawyer Alan Cooke who first laid claim to the place in 1609. Cook in Ulster probably comes from the Scottish MacCook or MacCuagh. Cook in Galway is an anglicized form of the Gaelic MacCug, or "son of Hugo."
America. Cookes and Cooks came to America, amongst the earliest being:
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- Cook Family in History. Cook history by J. Montgomery Seaver.
- Captain Cook's Family Tree. Cooks from the Northeast.
- The Cooke Family. Cooke Quakers in Buckinghamshire.
- Cook/Cooke/Koch. Cooks in America.
- Cook/Cooke/Koch DNA Project. Cook DNA results.
The main surname spellings have been Cook and Cooke. At first the main spelling was Cooke. But by the time of the 1891 census, the Cookes were being outnumbered three to one by the Cooks. The name Cooke, where it appeared, was more in the north. The southeast then had become Cook territory.
Ireland. Cook in Ireland could be an English or Scottish implant or an anglicization of an Irish name. Cookstown in county Tyrone took its name from the Protestant planter and church lawyer Alan Cooke who first laid claim to the place in 1609. Cook in Ulster probably comes from the Scottish MacCook or MacCuagh. Cook in Galway is an anglicized form of the Gaelic MacCug, or "son of Hugo."
America. Cookes and Cooks came to America, amongst the earliest being:
- Aaron Cooke from Dorset who arrived on the Mary and John in 1630. His son Nathaniel was one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut twenty years later.
- Ellis Cook who sailed from England in 1640 and a few years later
moved to Southampton out on Long Island. He was one of the first
settlers in what was then Dutch territory.
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John Cooke led the prosecution which led to the execution of Charles I and was himself executed when Charles II was restored.
Sir Edward Coke from Norfolk was the famous Lord Chief Justice whose writings on the English common law were the definitive legal text for the following 150 years.
Captain James Cook was the famous 18th century English explorer of the Pacific.
Thomas Cook started the Thomas Cook travel agency in the 1860's.
Alistair Cooke was the British-born American journalist best known for his weekly radio address Letter from America.
Sam Cooke from Mississippi was with his hits in the 1960's one of the pioneers of soul.
Peter Cook was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960's.
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- 111,000 in the UK (most numerous in Hertfordshire)
- 98,000 in America (most numerous in Texas)
- 70,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Canada)
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For other surnames check the companion selectsurname.com site where there are to be found the history and genealogy for more than 500 surnames.
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