When George Washington Rose was born on 4 March 1819, in Senecaville, Richland Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Rose Sr, was 29 and his mother, Hannah Dilley, was 31. He married Hannah Robbins on 13 May 1840, in Guernsey, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Richland Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States in 1880. He died on 23 January 1895, in United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Senecaville Cemetery, Senecaville, Richland Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, and German: from the name of the flower, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German rose (from Latin rosa), in various applications. In part, it is a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house bearing the sign of the rose. It is also found, especially in Europe, as a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion (compare 4 below). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and similar-sounding names from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Rózsa (see Rozsa ), Slovak Róža and Czech Roza . Compare 6 below and French Larose 2.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Rohese, Roese, later Rose, Royse (ancient Germanic Hrodohaidis, Rothaid, composed of the elements hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + haid(is) ‘kind, sort’).
English and Scottish: variant of Ross .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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