When Walter Oteley was christened about 1566, in Pitchford, Shropshire, England, his father, Richard Ottley, was 25 and his mother, Katherine Mackworth, was 27.
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A State Lottery was recorded in 1569. The tickets were sold at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
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English: habitational name from either of two places called Otley, in Suffolk and Yorkshire. The placenames derive from the Old English personal name Otta + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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