When Harriet E Rockwell was born on 14 January 1842, in Oneida, New York, United States, her father, Stephen Hubbard Rockwell, was 37 and her mother, Abigail Wells, was 35. She died on 6 March 1844, in New York, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Holland Patent, Trenton, Oneida, New York, United States.
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English (Buckinghamshire): habitational name either from Rockwell End in Hambleden (Buckinghamshire), derived from Old English hrōc ‘rook’ + holt ‘wood, thicket’, or from one or more unidentified places in southwestern England apparently named Rockwell. This surname is now rare in Britain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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