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Title: Strangest names
Post by: Arwald on Friday 16 July 10 11:22 BST (UK)

I just found this guy during my research, he is some vaguely related great uncle of sorts.

http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I46190&tree=bayanne_1

Arthur Shoebottom JAMIESON
Male 1832 - UNKNOWN

Title: Re: Strangest names
Post by: stanmapstone on Friday 16 July 10 11:35 BST (UK)

Shoebottom is a variant of Shufflebottom, an English habitation name from Shipperbottom  in Lancashire, which derives its name from the Old English scepwaella = a spring where sheep are washed  + boom = valley.
Other variants are Shufflebot(h)am,  Shovelbottom, Shipperbottom, Shoebotham and Shubotham. From "The Oxford Names Companion"

Stan

Title: Re: Strangest names
Post by: stanmapstone on Friday 16 July 10 11:43 BST (UK)

In the 1881 Census there are 24 people called Shoebottom, and 29 called Shoebotham.
Stan