The surname Roscoe Booth is thought to originate from Lancashire. It is a habitual name derived from the Old Norse elements "ra" a roebuck plus "scogr" a copse or thicket - or deer forest. The thought thought to be of northern English and Scottish origin, with it origins being North-Viking - specifically pre 7th century. It is topographical, and was generally described a person who lived in a small barn or bothy. The surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 13th Century, (see below). In the modern idiom the surname appears as Roscow and Roscoe. 

Current research identifies our line of the Yates Booth family as originating around Bolton, Lancashire in the early 1700s .The earliest known member of our Roscow line is Peter Roscoe born about 1710. However with John Booth, however little is known of the Roscoe family before the migration to Australia of his great great grandson, David Yates

My Roscoe Booth ancestry goes back 9 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links below

• Peter RoscoePeter Roscoe 1735 John Booth ? - ? married Alice E Viccars
  
  • Luke Booth 1759 - ? married Rebecca SettlePeter Roscoe 1779 Jane Greenhalgh
    
    • Jane Booth  1785 - ? married Jane Booth Peter Roscoe 
      • /wiki/spaces/HFHW/pages/6586468 married William Yates
        • David Yates 1851 - 1929 married Mary Hayes
          • Eva Mary Yates 1897 - 1957 married James Bashford Bain
            • Doreen Bain 1821 - 2000 married Douglas James Hardie
              • My father