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The earliest reference that I have found to Uglow as a surname is a Thomas Uglow who is a trustee for the Brixton Feoffee Lands Charity in a document dated 1st March 1484/5 - Brixton just east of Plymouth, Devon. But this appears to be an outlier and no other records link into this The original hotspot of the Uglow name (however it is spelt) is the Stratton and Marhamchurch area of NE Cornwall. In the Cornwall Military Surveys dated 1522, 1525 and 1543, - William, Robert and Nicholas from Stratton are all mentioned. By the mid-16 century, there are church records of burials and baptisms at Marhamchurch. There are three (perhaps more) different who were having children baptised, getting married and being buried. Until the 17th century, no other parish in the UK possess any UGLOW records except for a few in Bodmin, Kilkhampton, Holsworthy and Okehampton and all these can be traced back to Marhamchurch. The Uglows were famers or farm labourers - those that left the land worked in the tin and clay mines of south Cornwall, in the Plymouth dockyards or followed the jobs in the canal construction of the early 19th century. Many emigrated in the mid-19th century - even those who seemed settled on farms and with families. Modern distribution in the UK can be researched though the on-line BT phone book - useful to show settlement patterns. I've found 120+ subscribers in the UK, predominantly clustered in Cornwall and Devon but with noticeable hotspots in the north west around Manchester and Liverpool, Surrey and Peterborough - and not forgetting a couple still in Swansea.
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