Brief Life History of Percy
When Percy Rose was born on 5 February 1917, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Walter Rose, was 32 and his mother, Marian Woodhead, was 32. He married Violet Ada Chafer on 30 July 1936, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 30 December 2013, in his hometown, at the age of 96.
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1918
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
1924 · Terry's Open the Chocolate Works
Terry’s in York, England was a confectionery factory, later named the Chocolate Works. It opened in 1926 and closed in 2005 causing around 300 people to lose their jobs. Some of the treats that were made there consisted of Chocolate Apples and Chocolate Oranges.
1942 · Baedeker Blitz
The Baedeker Blitz took place from April 1942- May 1942. The attack on York took place on April 28-29, it caused minimal damage but 79 people were killed.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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