Roess meaning | Last name Roess origin

Family name Roess is a variant of Reuss. One who repaired shoes; one who came from Russia.

Surname is form of the Roos. A variant of Rose, i.e., dweller at the sign of the rose.

The family name is variation of Rose. Dweller at the sign of the rose, a not uncommon in sign; dweller at the sign of the horse.

Roess is form of Ross. Dweller at the promontory or peninsula; one who came from Ross meaning "promontory," in Scotland.

Family name Roess is the variation of Rose. This common and very beautiful name is somewhat difficult to account for. It might be a substitution for Ross. The rose, it is true, has in all ages been regarded as the "Queen of Flowers," and as such has ever been associated with poetry and symbolism. Salverte mentions a noble family of Poland, in the twelfth century, who are known to have adopted their surname of Rose from the charge of their shield; and he adduces other instances of a similar practice. The Roses of Nairnshire, settled there from temp. Alexander III, originally wrote themselves De Roos. Hugh Rose of Geddes, by marriage with the heiress of Byset, acquired the lands of Kilravock, and had a crown charter of the barony from King John Baliol. "From that period the estatehas descended lineally to the present proprietor." B.L.G.

The water-bowgets, borne by the ancient Lords De Roos of Hamlake, are found in the arms of many families of Ross and Rose, showing at least a presumed community of origin and name. In the Hundred Rolls, we find De la Rose, the meaning of which is not clear. In the same records Fil' Rose is also met with; so that Rose must have been a personal name.

A variant of the Ross. This surname is susceptible of several explanations. 1. In some cases it is undoubtedly of foreign local origin. In Domesday we find, in Kent, a tenant called Anschitil de Ros, and, in Buckinghamshire, another named Ansgotus de Ros. These probably came from Ros, a commune in the arrondissement of Caen, in Normandy. 2. It is of British local origin. The great barons Ros, or Roos, of Hamlake, county of York, sprang from one Peter, who, in the reign of Henry I, assumed his surname from his lordship of Ros, in Holderness. Baronage. The Rosses of the South of Scotland appear to have to have sprung from the English family, and to have passed into Renfrewshire, as the vassals of Richard de Moreville in the XII century, settling at Halkhead, county of Renfrew, and at Dalton, county of Dumfries. 3. There are several towns and villages in North and South Britain called Ross, and these, as well as ross, a heath or morass, and ross, a promontory, may have a claim. 4. The name seems sometimes to have had reference to the colour or complexion of the first bearer, and to have been a modification of Le Rous, Rufus, or the Red. The ancient family of Ross of Renfrew, descending from Alysandre, who flourished at Renfrew, so early as the reign of King David I, wrote themselves "the Ross of Renfrew," apparently down to the XV century. Historian Ferguson claims the name as Teutonic, deriving it from Old Saxon, hros, Old Norse, hross, etcc., a horse. 6. Scholar Skene insinuates a claim on behalf of the Gaelic. "It is well known," says he, "that the surname of Ross has always been rendered in Gaelic, Clan Aurias, or Clan Gille Aurias."