The roosevelt Surname

roosevelt Name Meaning and History

Dutch: topographic name for someone living by an area of uncultivated land overgrown with roses, from Dutch roose + velt ‘open country’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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roosevelt Family Facts

Distribution of roosevelt Families in the US in 1920

Number of roosevelt families

14-26

5-13

1-4

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 33 - Messages: 85

Thread	Author	Replies
W. A. ROOSEVELT Biography, b. 1833 MI to OH to WI	RMunns7272	2
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, JR. - Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient WW II	jasche	0
ROOSEVELT, GEORGE W.; Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient - Civil War	jasche	1
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE; Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient SPANISH AMERICAN WAR	jasche	0
Calling All Male Roosevelts	cliffsheets	0
still looking.	jd727	1
Roosevelt's On My Site	TewiTso	0
FERDINAND C. ROOSEVELT, b. 1838, Ypsilanti, MI > 1856 MN > 1862 OR > ID > 1867 MT > 1871 UT > 1873 MT -- Biography	carole	0
Claes Martenszen Van Rosenvelt	TewiTso	8
James Hamilton Roosevelt	suzyqwds	3

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