Boott History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Boott

The name Boott came to England with the ancestors of the Boott family in the Norman Conquest in 1066. The surname Boott is for a maker or seller of boots. 1 The name is derived from the Middle English word bote, which means boot. They were originally from Buat a castle near Falais in Normandy. 2

Early Origins of the Boott family

Early History of the Boott family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Boott research. Another 76 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1600, 1604, 1628, 1630, 1641, 1642, 1650 and 1653 are included under the topic Early Boott History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Boott Spelling Variations

Anglo-Norman names are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. When the Normans became the ruling people of England in the 11th century, they introduced a new language into a society where the main languages of Old and later Middle English had no definite spelling rules. These languages were more often spoken than written, so they blended freely with one another. Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded. The name has been spelled Boot, Boots, Boote, Bootes and others.

Early Notables of the Boott family

Arnold Boate, De Boot, Bootius or Botius (1600?-1653?), Hebraist, the son of Godefrid de Boot of Gorcom, Holland. Born about 1600 he graduated at the university of Leyden, where he received the degree of doctor of medicine, and applied himself assiduously to the study of Hebrew rabbinical writings. His labours in that direction were mainly in relation to questions which had been raised concerning the various readings in the Hebrew text of the Bible, and the possibility of correcting them by the Septuagint. Boate's first work appears to have been that produced in conjunction with Francis Taylor, and published at Leyden...
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Migration of the Boott family

For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect. Thousands migrated, aboard cramped disease-ridden ships. They arrived sick, poor, and hungry, but were welcomed in many cases with far greater opportunity than at home in England. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Among early immigrants bearing the name Boott or a variant listed above were: Francis Boot, who arrived in Virginia in 1623; Joanne Boot who settled in Virginia in 1652; as well as Mary Ann Boots arrived in New York in 1823.