Hello searchers,
Can anyone offer any connections to the ROOTE or ROOT family, please, in Hackney, Hoxton, & Shoreditch in the 19th century?
I am descended from WILLIAM ROOTE, who was in Hackney at the beginning of the 19th century. He was a doorman at The India House, East India Company HQ in the City of London, and later a Labourer. He married SARAH ANNE. Their dates are not yet known.
A son was THOMAS ROOTE (1804-1857). Other children were ELLEN, JOSIAH, and SARAH ANNE.
Thomas Roote was a Widnsor chairmaker, journeyman. He married MARY ELIZA SIMMONS (c.1811-1866). They had 14, possibly 15, children. Some were stonemasons and marblemasons/marble polishers
One was ALFRED (also known as ARTHUR) ROOT (1851-1920).
He married EDITH ROTHERA DOYLE (also known as Jane) in 1879. She was born in Derby or Nottingham in c.1861. She also gave her birthplace, wrongly, as Bethnal Green. She died 1943 in Dartford, Kent.
One of their children was EDWARD EVERITT ROOT, my Grandfather. He was born 4 December 1882 in Holborn Workhouse - does anyone know of aphoto or drawing of this Workhouse? unable to find any!. He was was killed at Ypres on 19 July 1915. I have his Army papers.
One of his four children was my Mother Kate (1907-1976).
I hope to find other links to the ROOTE'S & any other information, and will gladly share what I have.
The various ROOTE siblings married into the families of WARREN, LADELL, BEDDOE, HAWKINS, MITCHELL, BANKS, FOINETTE BURROWS, LE MAY, and BROUGHTON families in the East End.
Please be in touch.
Best wishes. DrJRS
