When Thomas Rockwood was born on 23 May 1785, in Hinsdale, Cheshire, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Rockwood, was 32 and his mother, Abigail Parmenter, was 29. He married Abigail Morton Robbins on 2 December 1805, in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. He died in June 1851, at the age of 66, and was buried in Federal Street Cemetery, Greenfield, Franklin, 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).
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