Root Family History
- Root Name Meaning
- English: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English rote ‘glad’ (Old English rot). English: metonymic occupational name for a player on the rote, an early medieval stringed instrument (Middle English, Old French rote, of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth). Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a retting place (Dutch root, a derivative of ro(o)ten ‘to ret’, akin to modern English rot), a place where flax is soaked in tubs of water until the stems rot to release the linen fibers.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of Root families
 187 - 371  63 - 186 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Root families
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40 - 77 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Root census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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