When Dorethea Hendrika Maria Roos was born on 15 August 1844, in Aalsmeer, Holland, Netherlands, her father, Hendrik Roos, was 21 and her mother, Neeltje Been, was 18. She married Ernst Landwaard on 11 July 1868, in Watergraafsmeer, North Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 26 January 1935, in Bloemendaal, Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands, at the age of 90.
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Birth of Vincent van Gogh.
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Dutch (also De Roos): topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a rose, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew roses, from roos ‘rose’.
Dutch: from the female personal name Rosa (from Latin rosa ‘rose’).
Dutch: nickname from roos ‘erysipelas’, an infection which causes reddening of the skin and scalp, applied presumably to someone with a ruddy complexion.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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