When Chester Pomeroy Rockwood was born on 27 March 1818, in Newfane, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, David Rockwood, was 26 and his mother, Joanna Knowlton, was 24. He died in 1818, in his hometown, 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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