When John Ewing Foote was born on 4 April 1850, in Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, John Graham Foote, was 35 and his mother, Eliza Jane Ewing, was 26. He died on 19 April 1850, at the age of 0, and was buried in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
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.
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