This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Rose.' Latin rosa, a rose. Very popular at the period surnames were becoming hereditary; hence strongly represented in all our directories.

Thomas fil. Rose, Cambridgeshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Richard fil. Rose, Nottinghamshire, ibid.

Adam Costenoght et Rosa uxor ejus, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Johannes Rose, 1379: ibid.

Rosa Held, 1379: ibid.

Or, again from the same period: Johanna Rose-doghter, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Isabella filia Rose, 1379: ibid.

Rosa de Berlowe, 1379: ibid.

(2) Local, 'of the rose,' i.e. at the rose-tree, or at the sign of the Rose.

John de la Rose, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Robert de la Rose, Oxfordshire ibid.

Elena de la Ros, Oxfordshire, ibid.

This surname is derived from a nickname. ; v. Rous. There can be little doubt that Rush is a variant of Russ, as that is unquestionably of Rous. In the Index to Register of the University of Oxford., Rush and Russe are placed under one heading.

1554. Anthony Rushe, B.A.: Register of the University of Oxford.

1600. Married — Thomas Rushe and Elizabeth Smyth: St. James, Clerkenwell.

1638. Hugh Massie and Thomasine Rush: Marriage Lic. (London).

The family of Rose of Kilravock are believed to be a branch of de Ross, which see. They did not blossom into a great clan but have kept well to the old acres, and show a remarkably unbroken pedigree, every link being proved by documentary evidence in A Genealogical deduction of the family of Rose of Kilravock, 1848. The tradition in Clan Donald (I, p. 101) that the family are descended from one of the Irish O'Cathans is worthless. Muriel de Roys granted a charter, 1333 (Rose, p. 116), and William Rose was a charter witness in inverness, c. 1360 (Grant, III, p. 12). Andrew de Rose was perpetual vicar of Innerafferayn in the diocese of Ross, 1440 (Pop. Lett., IX, p. 445).

This name is found mainly in two widely separated areas and in these its origin is entirely different.

The greater number are in the Oriel country. There it is Ó Ruis: it appears both as O'Rush and O'Ruse in the Monaghan Hearth Money Rolls of 1663-65, and as O'Rush in those of Co. Armagh. Denis Cardan Rushe, author of the History of Monaghan, says that it is Ó Fuathaigh in Irish; and it has also been stated that one of the anglicized forms of Ó Fuada (normally Foody or Swift) is Rush. If there is any basis for these statements such equations were rare. O'Ruis, on the other hand, can be supported both by the pedigree in an Lebor Gebála of Ó Rois of Oriel and by the evidence of the Hearth Money Rolls; similarly in the Fitzwilliam Accounts (1561) we find Thomas O'Rushe as official letter carrier; Thadhg O'Rushe, kern, appears in the Co. Dublin Fiants (1566); and in 1582 two husbandmen of the name are recorded in Co. Wicklow. Five different families-spelt Rush, Rushe, Ruish and Ruishe-appear in the Inquisitions for King's County (Offaly), 1623 to 1629.

The surname Rush is also found in north Connacht where it is a pseudo-translation of the Uí Fiachrach Ó Luachra* (luachair is the Irish word for rush or sedge). This sept, correctly and usually anglicized as Loughry, belongs to the barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo.

It should perhaps be added that there is an English surname Rush, but it is unlikely that many Irish Rushes are of that origin.

(Anglo-French-Latin) for the French Rousse: v. Rous(e. (English) not improb. also a contraction of one or other of the Rush- names.

The county-Dublin place-name Rush, anciently Roseo, ‘yew-tree peninsula’ [Irish ros, a peninsula; eó, a yew-tree] (Joyce), will hardly have influenced this surname.

This is Ó Ruis in Oriel, where it is chiefly found in Co. Monaghan. More numerous, however, is Rush in Mayo where it is of quite different origin, being the name of a slept of the Uí Fiachra called Ó Luachra, normally anglicized Loughry, but made Rush by supposed translation-luachairis the Irish for rush. SIF 132

This is Ó Ruis in Oriel, where it is chiefly found in Co. Monaghan. More numerous, however, is Rush in Mayo where it is of quite different origin, being the name of a slept of the Uí Fiachra called Ó Luachra, normally anglicized Loughry, but made Rush by supposed translation-luachairis the Irish for rush. SIF 132

(English, German, Swiss) Dweller near a clump of rushes; dweller near an elm tree; an excitable person.

This common and very beautiful name is somewhat difficult to account for. I am inclined to think that it is often 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; but how it became a surname, I can only conjecture, that it was from the device of the original bearer, whether that was displayed upon the patrician banner, or upon the ignoble sign-post. 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. Essai, i. 240, &c. The Roses of Nairnshire, settled there from temp. Alexander III., originally wrote themselves De Boos. 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 estate has descended lineally to the present proprietor." B.L.G.

A provincialism for 'subtle'; probably corrupted from the French ruse.

From some place of the name, perhaps from Rose in Perranzabuloe; from rose, rosh, a valley between hills; or from ros, a mountain meadow, common, moss. Hence the names Ress, Roose, Ros, Ross, Rosse, Rous, Rouse, Rowse, Ruse, Rush.

A location name in Dublin. Or from the Dutch, Rusch; a personal name.

Rose.—This name has at least two centres: one in the south in Dorset, Oxfordshire, and Wilts, the other in the northern midlands in Notts. It was common in Oxfordshire as far back as the 13th century (Hundred Rolls).

Rush was the name of a distinguished family owning much property in the county last century (P.).