When Nathaniel Rockwood was christened on 23 February 1665, in Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nicholas Rockwood, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Holbrook, was 30. He married Joanna Ellis on 7 December 1698, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He died about 24 September 1721, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Wrentham Center Cemetery, Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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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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