Släkthistoria för Botcherby
Botcherby Vad efternamn betyder
from Botcherby (Cumb). The place-name is from the Norman French given name Bochard + Old Scandinavian bȳ ‘farm village’.alternatively since the post-medieval distribution of the surname is concentrated in Durham it could be an altered form of Butterby a now obsolete surname from Butterby (Durham). Butterby (also spelled Botterbie Botterbe) and Botcherby sometime appears in the same settlements in the IGI and the Census 1881 .
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
