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Origins, Foote Name Study

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The goal of this project is to research the origins of the Foote surname.

Right now this project just has one member, me. I am Robert Foote.

Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.

  • Is the Foote surname a toponymic or referring to an anatomical characteristic?
  • Where did the Foote name originate?
  • How and where has the Foote surname spread?

Foote Surname Origins

Abram Foote summed up the knowledge of the origin of the Foote surname in 1907: “There is a tradition that our ancestors in England lived at the foot of a mountain at the time when surnames were adopted, and they called them Foote. The name was sometimes spelled Fotte, or Foot.” Foote, Abram, Foote Family . . , Marble City Press, Rutland, Vermont, 1907. Vol. 1, p. 5. Another possibility, seldom discussed, is that the first Foote took the name because of some physical attribute related to the anatomical part (for example the surname Armstrong probably relates to a progenitor with a strong arm). The conjecture is that the nickname Foote was used because a person had unusually large foot or a deformity of the foot. Foote is the Old English spelling of the modern word foot. Even older spellings were fot, and Ffoote.


Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!





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