When Martha Botten was born on 25 May 1840, in Sydenham, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Botten, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Waples, was 40. She married John Oliver Manson on 2 January 1867, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1851. In 1857, at the age of 16, her occupation is listed as nursemaid for mrs. scott at victoria parade in Victoria, Australia. She died on 22 January 1926, in Rocky Lead, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 85, and was buried in Creswick, Victoria, Australia.
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On May 26, 1868 the Capital Punishment Act was put into action. This made it so that public hangings no longer existed at Newgate in London.
English: variant of Button 1 and 2.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farms named Botn, Botten, or Botnen, from Old Norse botn ‘small valley, valley end’. Compare Botner .
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Possible Related NamesWhen John Manson was born on 3 October 1867, in Rocky Lead, Victoria, Australia, his father, John Manson, an immigrant from the Shetland Islands, was 32 and his mother, Martha Botten, an immigrant fro …
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