The Cook Surname In Malaysia?

Question

My Maternal gr. g. gr. Grandfather , was from there. His name was Daniel Cook. Captain James Cook was there also, trying to solve this puzzle. He emigrated? To Dawn township, in Dresden, Ontario canada. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Cook is one of the most common surnames because it is based on an occupation, so it would not be an unusual name to find anywhere in the world, especially wherever there has been past settlement by British people. Not all Cooks are related and it is extremely unlikely that there is any relationship between your gx3-grandfather and Captain James Cook.

Surname: Cook

This distinguished surname, with forty entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography", 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 (see below). 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. Richard Cocus held lands in Berwick after 1147, and Raginaldus the Cook witnessed the gift of the church of Cragyn in Kyle to the Abbey of Paisley, circa 1177. One Henry Coke, and a Ralph le Cook were recorded in Somerset and Sussex in 1279 and 1296 respectively. Notable bearers of the name were Sir Thomas Cooke, sheriff of London, 1453, and Lord Mayor of London, 1462, and Sir George Cooke who commanded the first division of guards at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. Garret Cooke, aged 20 yrs., who embarked from London on the "Primrose" bound for Virginia in July 1635 was one of the earliest recorded namebearers to settle in America.The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Aelfsige thene Coc, which was dated circa 950, in the "Anglo-Saxon Wills Records", during the reign of Edred the Saxon, Ruler of England, 946 - 955.

Edit :

Captain James Cook never actually sailed the seas off Malaysia, he sailed the southern Atlantic Ocean around what is now known as Australia and New Zealand, the Antarctic Ocean and the south Pacific Ocean. The nearest he went to Malaysia was off the Island of Jakarta (then known as Batavia) Indonesia, when, on the way back to England at the completion of his first voyage of 1768 he sailed between New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea, so proving that they were two distinct countries.

Answer 2

Do you know approx. what year he was born, or wife, children or siblings names?