Botterill Family History
Botterill Name Meaning
from Anglo-Norman French *boterel a diminutive form of Old French *boter ‘an officer who looks after the (wine) butts’. Both terms are derivatives of Old French butte bote ‘wine-butt cask’. The name was probably confused with that in (2) and some of the bearers listed below may belong there. see Botterell .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016