When Charles P Rockwood was born on 24 June 1925, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Charles Perry Rockwood, was 43 and his mother, Lillian Buckle, was 40. He died on 27 June 1925, in Utah, United States, at the age of 0.
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English: from Middle English rok(e) ‘rook’ + wod(e) ‘wood’ (Old English hrōc, wudu). The name may be topographic, denoting someone who lived by a wood inhabited by rooks, or habitational, for someone from any of several minor places so named, such as Rookwood Hall in Abbess Roding (Essex), Rook Wood in Finchingfield (Essex), or Rockwood in East Grinstead (Sussex).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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