My fathers surname is Udle and he immigrated from Canada. Tracing his lineage I was able to find the first Udle in Canada, but there the line stops and I can't figure out where he comes from. As the name does not appear in England, which is where he sailed from. I later began to suspect that he had never lived in England, but rather had just passed through on his way from Norway to America. I was talking to a lady in my Norwegian class and she showed me her ancestry book. In it, it listed a community called Udlesvang, which I have been told translates to Udles meadow or field. This was the first link back to Norway and I am interested in learning if my relatives came from there. If anyone can provide any information about Udlesvang (or Udleslang) or the Udle name in Norway, I would appreciate it.

Udlesvang is a dialect pronunciation of the name Ullensvang (which means "the meadow of the Norse god Ull"). Ullensvang is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, at the innermost end of the Hardangerfjord (SE of Bergen). The history of the municipality, its farms and their owners is well documented in a "bygdebok" by Aamund Knutsson Bu: Ættar-bok for Udlesvang (reprint 1988), which you should be able to find at one of the university libraries in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Iowa.

Regards,
Jon Gunnar Arntzen
Norsk Biografisk Leksikon/Norwegian National Dictionary of Biography

My father has been tracing our family tree for some time and has found records for Udle in Newfoundland back to 1700's (I think). If you are interested, let me know and I'll see what I can find for you.

Hi we have a UDLE in our family tree. Her name was Maud Udle she was married in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1895 to Edward Francis Perriss. She was born in 1872 but we don't know her birthplace and can't trace her in Scotland before her marraige. Do you have any information?

Regards
Eileen

Hi we have a UDLE in our family tree. Her name was Maud Udle she was married in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1895 to Edward Francis Perriss. She was born in 1872 but we don't know her birthplace and can't trace her in Scotland before her marraige. Do you have any information?

Regards
Eileen

Do you have any Cornicks in your Udle ancestry?

Have found that Fanny Maud Udle was born in Newfoundland her parents were John Udle and Mary Davey.