~ Littler ~


~ VARIATIONS on the SURNAME of LITTLER ~

De Littleovre (of Wallescote)
De Lytlelore
Litelor
Lyttler
Litler
Litlor
Littler

According to some information provided by M. Stubbings of Surrey, England,
and told to me by Phillip Littler of Wigan, Lancashire, the first
reference to the Littler or Litler surname was about 600 years ago.

The first actual definitive 'official" reference to the family occurs in the Rolls of King Edward I,
who in Bristol on the 2nd January 1284 exchanged various lands in Marleson, Lache & Salteneye,
and Salt Pitts in Northwich (all hamlets/villages in the county of Cheshire)
in return for the lands of Little Over surrendered to the King by Ranulph,
the son and successor of John de Littleovre, known as John of Littleover.


This John was born about 1225 and there are reasonable grounds for assuming that he was
a descendent of Ulfac, who according to the Doomsday Book,
held the lands of Little Over in 1085 and was a ' Free' man, and a squire of the Earl of Chester.

The name has had various spellings, from De Littleovre of Wallescote to ~
De Lytlelore
Litelor
Lyttler
Litler
Litlor

After 1636, Littler seems to have been pretty much generally adopted.
There does not appear to have been any other family of that name when the Census of Cheshire
was taken in 1580 or the Census of England in 1613.

From 1638, the last date that their salt interests are recorded as being held,
the family started spreading out.
Some went to the US, some to Canada, some to Tasmania, some to Australia, and elsewhere.

My LITTLER Direct Ancestor Line


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