James Bottomley was stationed at Dumbarton Castle where he was a gunner in the Royal Artillery. He married in l868 Mary Hayman, place of birth Ireland. One of their children was Thomas James Bottomley, my mother's father, born October l872. James Bottomley died in l880. His father was Thomas Bottomley and his mother Mary Bridges, both of whom were deceased at the time of James' l868 marriage. Where was James Bottomley born? Did he have siblings? Where was his father Thomas Bottomley born and when? This is a line that so far has baffled us to trace. James Pearsall East Millstone, NJ USA