When Roeloff Swartwout was born on 9 June 1695, in Kingston, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Antoni Roeloffszen Swartwout, was 31 and his mother, Jannetje Jacobse Coobes, was 23. He died in 1743, in Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 48.
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Dutch: archaic variant of Swartwolt, from swart ‘black’ + wout ‘forest, wood’. The surname Swartwolt is very rare in the Netherlands and the variant Swartwout is no longer found there. In North America, the surname Swartwout may also be a Dutch translation of the German cognate Schwarzwald. Compare Swarthout , Swartout , and Swartwood .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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