Rosson Family History
- Rosson Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Rostherne in Cheshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Rodestorne, from the Old Scandinavian personal name Rauthr + Old English thorn or thyrne ‘thorn tree’. Italian: from an augmentative of Rosso.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 139,628 Historical Documents with Rosson on Ancestry
- 30,498 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,760 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,942 Military Records
- 1,669 Immigration Records
- 83,759 Member Trees
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Number of Rosson families
 37 - 72  13 - 36 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Rosson census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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