The surname Roscoe is thought to originate from Lancashire. Current research identifies our line of the Yates 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 little is known of the Roscoe family before the migration to Australia of his great grandson, David Yates
Biographies are available for the following members of the Yates line