When Derek Charles Rowberry was born on 30 December 1921, his father, Daniel Albert Rowberry, was 34 and his mother, Ada Mary Jones, was 35. He died in 1997, at the age of 76.
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English (Herefordshire and Worcestershire): habitational name theoretically from any of various places called with Old English rūh ‘rough’ + beorg ‘hill, mound’, such as Roborough (Devon), Rowberrow (Somerset), Ruborough Hill (Somerset), and Rowborough (Isle of Wight), but in the West Midlands the surname is almost certainly from Rowberry Court (in Bodenham, Herefordshire) and through family migration is probably also the source of Rubery in Cornwall and Ro(w)bery in Essex.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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