ROSWELL

Rosveldt, the rose-field; Rosville, the town on the heath or promontory.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

ROSWELL. Said to be a con'uption of the French Eosseville. It is therefore local, but I know not the place. Kent, in his Grammar of Heraldry, speaks of the Eev. Sam. Eosewell, of London, M.A., as "descended from the Eosewells, of Somersetshire, Vviltshire, and Devon, who came in with the Conqueror."

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.