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Cook Of Kingerly
The Cooks of Kingerly live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and have a second home, Kite Cottage, in Ross-shire, Scotland. They take their territorial title from their Kingerly holding on the island of Rousay, Orkney, Scotland. Ensign Glen, Jr. is a Navy Medical Corps officer attending medical school at the University of Michigan; Sarah Cook Durr, is married to Wesley Durr and a medical assistant at the University of Utah Medical Center. Their first child, Wesley Burton Durr, was born 1 October 2003; Ben, is finishing a semester at the University of Utah and is a certified EMT; Mary Kate is a rising ninth grader who takes Highland dance lessons and is active in Jobs Daughters, a Masonic youth group. Picture below c. 1998.
Originally from Idaho, Melody completed her undergraduate work at Brigham Young University (where she also obtained a husband as part of the tuition package) and obtained her Master's degree in Gifted Education at Utah State University. The exact dates are privileged information as they indicate advancing age. She is now a secondary math teacher near the family home in Holladay. In addition to Scottish activities (she is a Life Member of the Utah Scottish Association and a member of the Clan Urquhart Ass'n and Foundation) and church work, she completed her 8th marathon in October 2004.
Kite Cottage near Tain, Ross-Shire.
Glen serves as the Chief's Counsellor and Constable of the Chief's
Castle. He is a Captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States
Naval Reserve. He began serving as a Military Judge in October, 2000 and was
the Commanding Officer and Chief Reserve Judge of the Naval Reserve Trial
Judiciary from 1 October 2003-September 30, 2004. He is currently serving
as an appellate judge on the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals..
A board certified criminal trial advocate, he is in private practice as a
member of the law firm of Cook, Skeen & Robinson, L.L.C. in Salt Lake City
and is admitted to the Supreme Courts of the United States and England &
Wales. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, he is a Liveryman
of the Worshipful Company of Scriveners, London. He is also a member and Life
Member of a number of Scottish cultural groups and has served as a Board Member
of the Utah Scottish Association and Vice-Chairman of the Society of Scottish
Armigers. In July 2004, he was promoted to Officer Brother in the Venerable
Order of St. John of Jerusalem. He is active in genealogy work and has completed
six marathons (26.2 miles).
GENEALOGY.
Glen is descended from the Scots lines of Crawford, Bell, Hume, and Shaw.
His Cook line is documented to Mississippi, 1862; the Bosticks to South Carolina in 1833. Other lines include Wood, Thomas, Homewood, Munk, Kite, Love, Staple, Freebody, Usher, Dunaway, Porter, Taliaferro, Wilhite, Minchew, Bookout, Head, Bearden.
Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent. The Thomas, Kite, Love, Avery families
Earliest documented ancestor: John Love, c. 1620, Staplehurst, Kent, England
Earliest Cook: Wiley Cook, 1862, MS.
Earliest Bostick: James B, father of Caswell Harp Bostick, b:
1833, who served in the CSA and Seminole Wars
The Thomas, Love, Freebody, Kite, Avery lines are found in
Staplehurst, Kent, Eng.
The Homewood, Munk, Huntley, Wood lines are found in
Smarden, Kent
Glen has arms granted both by the College of Arms in England as well as the Lord Lyon of Scotland.
Arms granted to Captain Glen Andre´ Cook of Kingerly by Lord Lyon in 2002.
Arms granted to then Commander Glen Andre´ Cook by the Earl Marshall of England 1 September 1999:
Per chevron Azure and Or in chief two Horses rampant respectant Argent and in base four Millrinds in cross Azure.For a Crest Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Azure A Red Kite wings elevated and addorsed Gules beaked legged and resting the dexter foot on a Beehive Or.
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The grant from Lord Lyon uses the boars' heads to show Glen's affiliation with Clan Urquhart. Lyon's grant also recognizes Glen by the territorial designation of Kingerly and grants a guideon. The English arms use the millrinds, the symbol for Lincoln's Inn in London and the badge for Navy Judge Advocates.
The shield is divided into blue (azure) and gold (or), representative of the colours for the U.S. Navy. The horses (Invicta) are from the White Horse of Kent, from which the Homewood and Thomas family lines came. The crest is a red kite, an endangered bird in the UK which has been reintroduced to Scotland. It is a also "canting" device, as it refers to the Kite family of Kent. The beehive upon which the kite rests its foot represents the LDS (Mormon) faith. The badge in the English arms demonstrates the family's commitment to knowledge and Melody's profession as a teacher.
A coat of arms is granted by the College of Arms in England and Lord Lyon in Scotland to a particular individual. The male descendants of that individual are then entitled to use the arms. To obtain his English grant, Glen had to show descent from an English citizen--, James Homewood, born 1817 in Kent, England. Glen uses the English arms in his law practice, and has therefore registered them as a trademark as well.
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