Spanish Roses

Historical Note: Though our particular Rose family tree is firmly connected to Dutch stock with a documented pedigree to 17th century Holland, family lore has often speculated about what came before. The traditional Roosa origin story,first penned around 1730 by Arien van Rijckhuijsen—claimed that the family's founding father was named Goerts who fled religious persecution from a town called Rosas in Catalonia, Spain. This was the time of Spanish Inquisition and it is docum