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"
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