Ok what nationality is the last name of Cook, Boomhowe, and Wilday?

Question

I'm looking through my family tree and I want to know what nationality I am.

Please I just need some help finding out about my family tree. Cause I don't know what nationality I am

Answer 1

kepjr is right about the possibility of Cook being an Anglicization of Koch, but could also be English.

cook
English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Old English coc (Latin coquus). There has been some confusion with Cocke.
Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name, but in some cases a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook).
In North America Cook has absorbed examples of cognate and semantically equivalent names from other languages, such as German and Jewish Koch.
Erroneous translation of French Lécuyer (see Lecuyer).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

wilday
English: variant of Waldie.

Waldie
Scottish and northern English: from the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Wælþeof (Old Norse Valþiófr), composed of the elements val ‘battle’ + þiofr ‘thief’, i.e. one who snatched victory out of battle. This spelling is found mainly in Scotland.


Boomhowe must be a variant of another name. I cannot find anything definitive. There was a Boomhour family in Vermont who was listed as Boomhowe in the 1870 census (or least transcribed that way). Perhaps it is actually Boomhower:

boomhower
Altered spelling of Dutch and North German Bohmhauer, literally ‘wood cutter’, an occupational name for a woodsman or lumberjack, Middle Low German bomhowere.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Answer 2

Cook Last Name

Answer 3

Cook is typically an Anglo-Irish or English name but I'm not sure of the others. Actually it's very hard to tell a family's nationality based on the last name becauss people immigrate, families are blended, etc. I had a grandmother who's last name was a traditionally Scottish name but come to find out her ancestors were all from Ireland.

The best thing to do is start with what you know of your family and work your way back. Collect all the birth certificates (and death certificates) you can of your grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. Ask your family about any information they can give you and perhaps you can find out this way where your family came from.
Ellis Island has a website with a search engine for last and first names and it gives records of immigrants who've gone through there with those names. It's at http://www.ellisisland.org/

Also, Rootsweb has a good search engine for family names plus they have forums too. It's at http://www.rootsweb.com

Good luck and have fun with your research!

Answer 4

Better do some research on Cook. I have Cook in my family tree, but it is a German line. The German name in Koch.

Answer 5

Boomhowe seems Dutch or Flemish to me (Belgian). Wilday may be English, but could even possibly be German.

Answer 6

I think Cook is English, I have Cooks in my family

Answer 7

Klaes