Group Administrator:
John Uttley - Email:
John.Uttley1@btinternet.com
Project Surnames
Utley, Uttley
Project Background
The claim is made in The House of Uttley by Eileen and John Huckle that all Uttleys/ Utleys are directly descended from a John Utley who left Utley near Keighley, Yorkshire, England for Heptonstall, Yorkshire in the mid fourteenth century, thus acquiring the surname.The surname spelling change occurred in the mid eighteenth century when a parish clerk at Heptonstall started using two T's. Those with one T have ancestors who had left Heptonstall by then.