BUTTON, BOTTEN: Occupational Name, Old French boton 'button',
*Metonymic for botonier, butner 'a maker of buttons'. 13th cent.
BUTTON Births 1960 ~ 1990
BUTTON Benjamin ~ Timeline/Personal Profile
BUTTON Kenneth Arthur, In Memory of
occupational surnames where the word for an object is used to
describe the maker of it: for example, Button for a maker of buttons.
