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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Norfolk) : from the medieval personal name Botolph or Botolf. St. Botolph (d. 680) is said to have introduced the Benedictine rule into England and brought Christianity to East Anglia. Boston in Lincolnshire was named in Old English as Botulves stan ‘St. Botolph’s stone’.

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