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Unusual and Notorious Brightonians - 1, by Roy Grant, published June 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 2, article, p.52) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508809] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Jeremy Botting who lived at the back of Westfield Lodge in the Cannon Street area of West Brighton and died in Brighton on the 1st October 1837 was the official executioner in London's Newgate Gaol and occasionally commuted from Brighton to do his unsavoury duty in the city.

A Brighton Celebrity: James Botting the Executioner, by Michael Burchall, published March 2000 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 1, article, pp.5-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The expanded and corrected story of James Botting (1783-1837) who, in his professional capacity, executed possibly 175 individuals.

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.

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.

A knotty Butting, by Martin Mitchell, published June 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 6, article, p.295) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508847] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

My step-children's great-great-great-great-grandparents are illustrative of an unusual situation - nowhere have I found a BOTTING in the right context; whereas I'm quite often spoilt for choice, so widespread and numerous is the BOTTING clan.