304 Global BUTTERLY Family Members

BUTTERLY Family History

The one certain thing about this locational surname is that it originally developed from the village of Butterley in Derbyshire, or from some place now lost of the same name. The village has Olde English pre 10th century origins and the traditional translation is "the pasture (leah) which provided good butter (buter)!" Well indeed that may be so, but as one has to produce cream and milk first in order to make butter, it is more likely that the meaning is the field of butter cups, or even that it was a bright pasture, one south facing.