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Origin / History of the Bothell Name
The surname Bothell is
English with two ideas of origin:
1. A relationship name from the Middle English female personal name Botild,
from Old Scandinavian Bothildr, Bothild, from bot ‘remedy’+
hildr I’battle, war’.
2. A locational name from any of various places called Bothel(l), of which there
are examples in Cumbria and Northumberland, named with Old English bōđl
‘dwelling house’, ‘hall’, or a topographic name from this word, denoting for
someone who lived ‘at the hall or manor house’.
Early examples include: Godwinus filius Botild 1188 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk;
Johannes filius Botill 1219 York Assize Rolls; Adam Botild 1221 Gloucestershire
Assize Rolls; Richard Botyld 1296 Sussex Subsidy Rolls; Germano le Bothel 1296
Subsidy Rolls Sussex; RoBert ate Bothele 1327 Subsidy Rolls Somerset; John
Botill 1401 Assizes Rolls Lancashire; Robert Bottle 1554 Saint Martin in the
Fields Middlesex; Cuthbert Bottyll 1565 Oxford University Register; James Buttle
1558 Lancashire; Elizabeth Bottle 1619 Kennington Kent; Thomas Buttle 1632
Pocklington Yorkshire; and Esther Buttle 1747 & Ann Buttel 1773 Pitminster
Somerset.
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: The Oxford Dictionary of Family
Names in Britain and Ireland Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure,
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