When Roger Foote was born in 1763, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Samuel Foote, was 44 and his mother, Lois Loomis, was 39. He died on 1 January 1766, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 3.
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English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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