Botten Family History
- Botten Name Meaning
- English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob’, ‘lump’. English: possibly a topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn ‘valley bottom’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Botton in Lancashire or Botton Cross in North Yorkshire. Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farms named Botn, Botten, or Botnen, from Old Norse botn ‘small valley’, ‘valley end’. Compare Botner.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 58,381 Historical Documents with Botten on Ancestry
- 20,948 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,020 Census and Voter Lists
- 946 Military Records
- 1,194 Immigration Records
- 20,273 Member Trees
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Number of Botten families
 87 - 172  30 - 86 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Botten census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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