Publications
Battling with Bottings, by Elizabeth Noyes, published March 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 1, article, pp.40-42) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508968] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:I thought the surname BOTTING to be a fairly unusual surname, so I anticipated that tracing the ancestors of my paternal great-grandmother would not be too difficult. How wrong I was! She was the second of seven children born to Henry and Mary BOTTING in George Street, Marylebone, London on 18 August 1845. Henry was a dairyman born in Storrington on 18 May 1814, who seemed to have quite a successful business. Before the days of the railway cows were kept in stalls, usually in mews, whilst later milk was brought in from the country. I guess Henry then imported milk from his many farming relatives in Sussex.