Bottrell Family History

English:: (Cornwall of Norman origin): habitational name from Les Bottereaux in Eure France apparently so named from being infested with toads. The placename is recorded in the late 12th century in the Latin form Boterelli from a diminutive of Old French bot ‘toad’ (of ancient Germanic origin).

It has also been suggested that the name originated as a Norman nickname from Old Norman French bottereau ‘toad’ or as an occupational name for a worker in a buttery Middle English butterer.

(of Norman origin): occupational name from Anglo-Norman French boterel a diminutive of Old French boter ‘officer who looks after the (wine) butts’.

Both terms are derivatives of Old French butte bote ‘wine-butt cask’.