When Mary M Rose was born on 27 May 1814, in Bergen, New Jersey, United States, her father, Gamaliel Rose, was 19 and her mother, Catherine Smith, was 30. She married Peter Kipp in 1836. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Midland Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States in 1880 and English Neighborhood, Bergen, New Jersey, United States in 1900. She died on 24 September 1901, in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Maple Grove Park Cemetery, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, United States.
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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