My recent ancestral find

[t_challa]

Hi everybody. I just wanted to share this story with you all.

My surname is Rockhead, so I'm think it's safe to say that we definitely have no Scottish or Celtic heritage (as far as I'm aware). However, for years, ever since I was a wee bairn (hope I spelled that correctly) I've been wondering about the origin of my surname; when I meet new people and they hear my surname I always get asked where it's from and I have no answer. Some people think I'm joking at first, others love the name. I must confess, when I got teased a little at a school I didn't like it, but I really love it now. It's definitely unique and original.

Anyway, I recently started looking into my ancestral background, determined to find any indication as to where the surname came from. Through Facebook I found a number of relations around the world I never knew I had and funnily enough the same question has been plaguing them "Where does the surname Rockhead come from"?
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Conducting some research with the help of the internet, the earliest documentation I could find was for a freed slave from a sugar plantation in Jamaica in 1746. He was owned by plantation owner James Dawkins (whose family is on wikipedia).

Interestingly enough though, I also found some birth records for some slaves with the Rockhead surname in Scotland in the late early 1800s in Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire and Midlothian.

I'm not sure if that counts as having Scottish roots, but it was an interesting discovery nonetheless.

Still no information on the origin of the surname though. One thing has become apparent though, my family are the only Rockheads in the world. I have only recently bought my first kilt (with my second due to be delivered tomorrow). In light of this discovery I'm quite tempted to create our own family tartan, either amending existing tartan from those areas mentioned or starting completely from scratch.

Anyway, that's the story and I hope you enjoyed reading it.