Person:Thomas Roote (1)

The city of Badby was anciently called Baddebi and is two and one half miles from Daventry. The village stands on the side of a sandy ascent called Badby-Down, and there are numerous springs of water and quarries of hard blue rag-stone in the neighborhood. The name of the place may be derived from the Saxon bad or bade, a pledge in security, and bye, a dwelling or habitation in allusion, possibly two circumstances now forgotten, connected to its original foundation. In Badby, the Root family owned an inn in the early 1800s.

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1. ↑ Inator/Rootsweb WorldConnect Project: John Root.
2. ↑ Other family researchers give his birth date as 1549.