When Julia Rose was born on 27 January 1910, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Salvatore Denefrio Rose, was 32 and her mother, Mary Pati, was 27. She married Arthur Kroeger on 4 August 1937, in King, Washington, United States. She lived in Modesto Judicial Township, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1940 and Menlo Park, San Mateo, California, United States in 1956. She died on 20 February 1988, in Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 78.
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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