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Early Origins of the Ullathorne family

The surname Ullathorne was first found in Lancashire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century when they held lands.

Early History of the Ullathorne family

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Ullathorne Spelling Variations

Only recently has spelling become standardized in the English language. As the English language evolved in the Middle Ages, the spelling of names changed also. The name Ullathorne has undergone many spelling variations, including Ellithorne, Elithorn, Elithorne, Elinthorn, Elinthorne, Ellithorn, Ullathorn, Ullathorne, Ulithorne, Ulathorne, Ellingthorpe, Ellingthorp and many more.

Early Notables of the Ullathorne family

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Migration of the Ullathorne family

To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Ullathorne were among those contributors: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..


Contemporary Notables of the name Ullathorne (post 1700) +

  • William Bernard Ullathorne (1806-1889), English Roman Catholic bishop of Birmingham, afterwards Archbishop of Cabasa, born at Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire 1
  • Francis Ullathorne Gledhill (1803-1882), New Zealand politician

Winter Quarters coal mine
  • Mr. Walter William Ullathorne (b. 1847), English mine worker from Durham, England residing in Coalville, Summit, Utah who worked in the Winter Quarters coal mine on 1st May 1900, when 10 of the 25lb kegs of black powder exploded; he died in the explosion 2


  1. Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 30 Jan. 2019
  2. Miners killed in Winter Quarters (retrieved 28th July 2021). Retrieved from http://www.carbon-utgenweb.com/miners.html


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