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Question: My husband is 100 percent Mexican, but, oddly, his last name is Rosenbaum!.!?
We dont know where or from whom the last name came!. We are very curious, as you can imagine!. Any ideas!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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There are few people who are "100% Mexican"!
As a male the name Rosenbaum has been passed down through the generations, one way or another, from the time that last names were first adopted around the 12th!.century to your husband today, the name in the form of Rosenbaum is German in origin!. Contrary to what some posters are saying it is not an entirely Jewish name, it is a German name that was adopted by some Jewish families!.

Rosenbaum: Last name origins & meanings:

German: habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a rosebush, Middle High German rōsenboum!.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental adoption of modern German Rosenbaum ‘rose bush’!.
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Rosenbaum
Recorded in over two hundred spelling forms including Rose of England, Flanders, and Germany, Larose and Roz of France, Ross of Scotland, Royce, Roset, and Rising of England, Rosa and Rosi of Italy and Spain, Rosone and Rosetti of Italy, Rosanski of Poland, and many, many, more, this is a European medieval surname!. It is ancient being of pre-Christian Roman or Hebrew origins!. It derives from the ancient Latin word 'rosa' meaning 'the rose', or the Hebrew 'royze' of the same meaning!. It can be said to have four possible but ultimately overlapping sources!. These are that the name is either topographical for a person who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a metonymic for a rose grower, or it may have been residential for somebody who lived at a place with the sign of the rose, an inn perhaps, or that it may descend from the early baptismal name 'Rosa or Rose'!. The name as a baptismal name only, is recorded in the famous Domesday Book of England in the year 1086, but the surname as a hereditary name is some two hundred years later!. Early examples of the name recordings taken from authentic medieval charters, registers, and rolls, include: Rudolf Rosse of Basel, Switzerland, in 1283, Richard Roys, in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk, England, in 1327, and Hugh Rosesone, in the rolls of Staffordshire in 1342!. Other examples are those of Christof Rosa of Friedberg, Germany, in 1579, and Anna Russon, who married Evan Daniell at St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, London, in 1628!. Henry Rose, the Baron Strathnairn (1801 - 1885) served in Syria, India and Ireland with the British army and was appointed Field-Marshal in 1877!. The first recorded spelling of the family name anywhere in the world is believed to be that of Baldungas Rose of Mainz, Germany, in 1283!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

One of his male ancestors was a Jew!. At the time that Mexico was being settled the Spanish Inquisition was going on and Jews were either leaving Spain for the New World or other countries in Europe and the Middle East!. It is also possible that this ancestor was a crewman on one of the ships that sailed to Mexico from Spain and Cuba!.

also he could be descended from am US Citizen who went to Mexico to work in the mines of Northern Mexico met a Mexican Woman and either, had a kid by her or gave up his US citizenship and raised his Family in Mexico!.

Though I will say that it is and interesting name for a Mexican National to have and one of the last that I would associate with Mexico!. Good luck on you hunt!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Elizabeth you should know that he is of German Jewish descent!. Those Germans have been known to literally settle anywhere and everywhere!.!.!. in fact theres a sizable German population in Brazil and Argentina!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Maybe this will help:
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/German_Mexi!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Mexico was under German rule through Emperor Maximillian!.
Perhaps that is where the Rosenbaum name came from!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

maybe his ancestors were slaves of the Rosenbaum family!. or maybe one of his ancestors were Jewish!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Google it!. Or, have you asked any of his older relatives!? Good luck with you search!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Maybe he has an ancestor that's Jewish or some type of whiteWww@QuestionHome@Com

Is he Jewish!?
His blood is not pure, trust me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com