When Ebenezer Rockwood was born on 5 April 1732, in Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Nathaniel Rockwood Jr., was 31 and his mother, Margaret Phipps, was 25. He died on 25 February 1757, in his hometown, at the age of 24.
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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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