Brief Life History of Rose Constance
When Lady Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon Countess Granville GCVO CSTJ was born on 6 May 1890, in St Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Claude George Bowes-Lyon 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was 35 and her mother, Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck, was 27. She married William Spencer Leveson-Gower 4th Earl Granville on 24 May 1916, in Glamis, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1890. She died on 17 November 1967, in Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 77, and was buried in Glamis, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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- Rose Lyon in household of Claude Glamis, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Rose Constance Lyon or Glamis, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Rose C Bowes-Lyon, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Opening of the Glasgow Subway.
The Glasgow Subway opened on 14 December and is the third-oldest underground metro system in the world. It is one of very few subways that have a running gauge of 4 feet, but its twin circular lines were never expanded.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1913 · Leith dockers strike 1913
The Leith dockers strike was a strike that brought the town of Leith to a standstill after dock workers demanded an increase in pay, better working conditions, and shorter hours. The strike had an effect on the local community by not allowing trade to flow smoothly out of the docks. There totaled around 4,600 people a part of the strikes and riots but it ended near the middle of August with no demands met. since then two more strikes would happen at the same location, once in 1983 and, most recently, in 1989.
Name Meaning
Ostensibly from the vocabulary word denoting the flower (Latin rosa). However, the name was in use throughout the Middle Ages, long before any of the other girls' names derived from flowers, which are generally of 19th-century origin. In part it may refer to the flower as a symbol of the Virgin Mary, but it seems more likely that it also has a Germanic origin, probably as a short form of various girls' names based on hros ‘horse’ or hrōd ‘fame’. The Latinate form Rohesia is commonly found in documents of the Middle Ages. As well as being a name in its own right, it is currently used as a short form of Rosemary and, less often (because of their different pronunciation), of other names beginning Ros-, such as Rosalind and Rosamund .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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