According to all the (often erroneous) Ancestry World Trees that cover Barnet Ulp (maybe 4 or 5 in total), Catrin is named as his first wife and mother of his children. After she died in 1795, Barnet married second Elsie Ann Donfield 5 Aug 1796. This was about three weeks before he apparently died.

The problem with this account is it does not explain who Elizabeth is that is buried in the same cemetery as Barnet and of roughly the same age. My theory is that Elizabeth was his first wife and mother of Conrad and that Catrin is not a relevant name to this family. In other words -- I just don’t believe those AWT’s, that’s certainly nothing new.

I did find that Henry Savacool married Elcey Ulp 19 Apr 1802 so I believe it is correct that Elcey was the name of Barnet’s second wife.

I have seen an early PA church record where parents at a baptism were named Bernhard and Catherine Ulb -- and I have to wonder if this has been thought by someone to be Barnet and his wife, thus the source of the notion her name was Catrin. I don’t think it was.

I know of no one named Ulp earlier than Barnet, I assume he was the immigrant. But, from where? Was he of German origin? I just don’t know. I have searched Strassburger’s lists of immigrants who came through the Port of Philadelphia from 1727-1800 and can find no one with a name at all similar to Ulp.

The 1790 Census of New Jersey was lost, there is no record of Barnet even though he was still alive.

George Roger Gilbert has a website devoted to his ancestors, including Henry Savercool (elsewhere spelled Savacool). Henry married second Elcy Ann Ulp who George in one place says was maiden named Donfield and in another place Kishpaugh. No matter to me. What does matter is he reports as follows: “April 21, 1992...I went to the Old Stillwater Cemetery and....I did copy: ‘Here lies the body of Barnet Ulp who was born 1745 and departed this life August the 26th 1796 aged 49 years. In memory of Elizabeth Ulp. She was born 1748 and died 1792 aged 44.’ “

Barnet apparently married second on 5 Aug 1796 Elsie Ann and then he died very soon after their marriage. She then married Henry Savacool in 1802.

On CD 196 -- SE PA Birth Index, I found:

Michael Olp b. or bp. 13 Jul 1755, parents Bernhart and Catherine Olp baptized at Jerusalem Lutheran & Reformed Church, Salisbury Twp, Lehigh Co.

George Jacob Ulb b. or bp. 19 Mar 1753, parents Hans Bernhardt and Catherina Ulb baptized at St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church, Philadelphia.

Conrad Ull bp. 17 Feb 1745, parents Conrad and Magdalena Ull baptized at First Reformed Church, Lancaster.

Barnet's tombstone says he was born 1745.  So Barnet cannot be Bernhardt, can he?  Did George Roger read his tombstone wrong? Is this the source of the AWT that says Barnet's wife was Catrina even though Elizabeth Ulp of the same age is buried near (beside?) Barnet in Stillwater?

His Sussex County estate file -- folio 720S -- doesn’t provide much information. The executors of his estate were Jacob Ulp and Jacob Norcross, his son and son-in-law, I believe.

Ulp is not a common name. I can’t even say for certain it is a surname that belongs in our family tree but I am fairly certain it does. The father of Anna Rebecca Hopewell (J O’s mother) was named John U Hopewell (though sometimes it was written John V Hopewell). All the early genealogists of Northumberland County say he was John Ulp Hopewell and his mother was Elizabeth Ulp. Now these genealogists have sometimes proven to be inaccurate, but in this case I think they have it right and I have found absolutely nothing that even hints or suggests in any way that they may be wrong.

If Elizabeth was John U’s mother, then it is logic that leads to the idea that Conrad Ulp was her father. Conrad was the first Ulp to live in Northumberland, was there by 1810 and was the only one there until his presumed sons started to show up in Census. Moreover, he was of the right age to have been Elizabeth’s father. I believe Conrad Ulp was Elizabeth’s father.

So then I went looking for Conrad Ulp earlier than 1810 and my belief was that if I found a man of that name, in the right time period, it was most likely him. And I found mention of a man of that name taxed in Sussex County, NJ in 1793. And in Sussex then, like in Northumberland later, based on other early records, there was only one man in that place of an age to possibly have been Conrad’s father -- that being Barnet Ulp.

From various Ancestry World Trees, all of which may source to the same original which may be wrong, Barnet Ulp seems to have been the progenitor Ulp in Sussex (originally part of Warren) County, NJ -- perhaps in America. In various of these trees, he is listed as the father of Barnet Ulp (1780-1840) who we find in Wilkes-Barre in 1810-1830, our Conrad Ulp, Catherine who married Jacob Norcross (who has the most extensive of all the family trees involving the Ulp name on the Internet) and Jacob.

Other than Barnet, Conrad and Jacob, the only other named Ulp I have seen named in pre-1800 records was John, listed in the 1790 Census in Bucks County, PA. I don’t know how he fits in.