First name origin & meaning: Dutch: Field of roses First name variations: Rooseveldt, Rosevelt Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch: topographic name for someone living by an area of
uncultivated land overgrown with roses, from Dutch roose +
velt ‘open country’.
- The two U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) and the latter’s wife
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) were all descended from a common
ancestor, Claes Martenzen van Rosenvelt or Roosevelt, who had settled
in New Amsterdam (now NY) from the Netherlands in 1649. He was
the son of Maertin Cornelissen Geldersman, who had bought the farm of
Rosevelt in Tholen, Zeeland, from Pieter Jorissen op het Rosevelt and
his son Joris Pietersen. The family became prosperous with the growth
of Manhattan. Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City; his mother
was of Irish and Huguenot descent. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was his
5th cousin. His mother’s family, the Delanos, were descended from
Philippe de la Noye (1602–81), a young man who arrived at Plymouth Colony
in 1621 in the ‘Fortune’, one year after the Pilgrims.
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