Brief Life History of Richard
When Richard Batt was born in 1560, his father, Sir John Bate, was 80 and his mother, Elizabeth Tucker, was 55. He married Agnes Danyell on 4 September 1581, in St Edmund Campion's Church, Watlington, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 6 August 1600, in Salisbury St Thomas, Wiltshire, England, at the age of 40, and was buried in Devon, England, United Kingdom.
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- England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- Richard Batt, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Richard Batt in entry for Agnes Danyell, "England, Wiltshire, Church Records, 1518-1990"
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Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Bat(te), probably a pet form of Middle English Bartelmew (see Bartholomew ) or perhaps the rarer Bartram (see Bertram ).
English: probably in many cases a variant of Back 2 ‘bat’ (the winged animal), applied as a nickname. The alteration of Middle English bakke to bat is not on record before 1580, but the frequency with which le Bat occurs in medieval documents suggests that this is a likely source of the name. Alternatively, it may be from Middle English bat(te) (Old English batt) ‘cudgel, club, bat’, perhaps for someone of stout appearance or for one who wielded a bat.
English: topographic name, of uncertain meaning. That it is a topographic name seems clear from examples such as Walter atte Batte (Somerset 1327), but the meaning of the term is in doubt although it is found in medieval field names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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