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ROSIE Family History

This most interesting European surname recorded in several spellings including Rose, Rosen, Rosier, Rosie, and many others, derives from a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may be a topographical name for a person who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a village or town of the same name, or it may be residential for a dweller in or by, a public house or inn, bearing the sign of the rose. In some cases it may be a nickname for a person of "rosy" complexion, and in each of these instances the surname derives from the English and French "rose" or the Germanic female personal name "Rose".