In her book “Records of an ancient family” published in London, England in 1923, Jane Emily Ottley traces the history of the Ottley family, concentrating mainly on her particular branch of this family.
Her branch began with a David de Oteley who was guardian of the castle of Ellesmere in Shropshire in
1280 AD and ends with an Adam Ottley who died in 1807 [who] never married and thus had no children to carry on the name. [If he died in childless in 1807 how could he be her ancestor?]
Then follows details of fighting between Angles, Saxons, Picts and Scots on what is now British soil, ending with the beheading of Hengist whose son Otte was spared and granted land in about 500 AD which became known as “the land of Otte” or Otteley.
Mention is made of three branches of the Oteley family in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Suffolk.
Jane Emily Ottley quotes “Nomina Villaris” where there ‘are five distinct branches of the Ottleys, all giving their name to a town or village, Otley of Clun & Ellesmere in Shropshire, Ottley of Pitchford, Shropshire, Otteley of Suffolk, an Otteley mayor of London in 1434, and Oteley of Shrewsbury in Shropshire.’