Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Roswell was born about 1566, in England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir William Rowswell, Solicitor General, was 47 and his mother, Elizabeth Dale, was 38. He died after 1570.
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English (Somerset): apparently a habitational name from an unidentified place. In the absence of any evidence for a place called Ro(w)sewell or Ros(e)will, this is perhaps a hypercorrect variant of Rowsell (see Rossell ), on the analogy of placenames where pronunciation of -well is colloquially shortened to -el.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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