John Rouse Deacon Foot's marriage cert is on line - married April 4 1875 at St. Andrew, Plymouth - and his father is James, occupation Carpenter. Is this John's brother?
Western Times, 20 Sep 1879
"LOCAL FREEMASONRY - The election of 16 boys out of a list of seventy seven candidates for the Royal masonic Institution for boys will take place at Freemason's Tavern, London, on Monday, the 13th of Oct. Four of the candidates are from the Masonic province of Devonshire:- ...; William Robert Deacon Foot, of Plymouth, son of the late Brother James Foot, carpenter and builder, who was initiated in the Lodge of Harmony, No. 156, Plymouth, on the 20th Dec 1859."