When Charles Martin Rose was born on 28 October 1914, in Raymond, Rice, Kansas, United States, his father, Charles William Karl Rose, was 38 and his mother, Louise Fredrica Marie Schmidt, was 35. He had at least 1 son with Josephine Abbie Malone. He lived in Raymond Township, Rice, Kansas, United States for about 15 years. He died on 3 November 1977, in Rice, Kansas, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Hilltop Cemetery, Raymond, Rice, Kansas, 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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