When Isabella Botterill was born in 1844, her father, William Botterill, was 29 and her mother, Jane Heward, was 34. She married Charles Oxtoby on 22 June 1867, in North Dalton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Warter, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Warter, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom in 1901. She was buried in Warter, Yorkshire, England.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1 Norman, English: locative name from Les Bottereaux (Eure, Normandy), a place-name which apparently meant ‘the toads’. The surname is found in both a singular form Boterel and a plural form Boterels, Botereaus, which has developed to Buttress. Some of the post-medieval bearers may belong under (2).
2 Norman, English: occupational name 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’.
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