When Edwin Rose was born in 1872, in Rothley, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Rose, was 47 and his mother, Lydia Emma Burton, was 33. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Rebecca Martha Geary. He lived in Ibstock, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died before 1972, in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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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 .
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