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I don't think a Roseberry is anything, other than a surname, originating from a place called Newton-under-Roseberry in North East England. The village is located at the foot of a hill called Roseberry Topping.

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It is, funnily enough, where my English family originates from, and I have family still living in the village today.

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My research has shown the original name for Roseberry Topping was Odins-Beorg (Old Norse meaing Odins Hill). As English evolved over the years, the name changed several times, eventually becoming Ouseberry Toppen. The village was at that time, obviously called Newton-under-Ouseberry, and it is the 'R' in under that [somehow] influenced the changing of Ouseberry to Rouseberry, which then became Roseberry. Thus the hill is now called Rosberry Topping and the village is Newton-under-Roseberry.

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Roseberry doesn't even really appear to mean anything, as it's so very different to the original name of Odins-Beorg.

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This is Roseberry Topping...

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Anyhow, not surprisingly, I don't think it works as a first name.

This message was edited 9/14/2010, 11:20 PM