Jacqui - Thanks for you interest. While I also believe that in all probability there is SELLEN / SELLON alternative spelling down the ages, (in the Severn Valley the two names appear side by side in the same villages), the only actual switch I have come across is a later one in the USA. Over there a SELLON married twice, his first family spelling the name SELLON the second SELLEN. Anything pertaining to the name SELLON is of great interest to me, I am now the only male one of my generation left in the UK, (I have a couple of nephews I have hopes of). There is a branch in Oz, but they did not reply when a wrote a couple of years ago. I am most interested in what you say about SELLEN Dutch links, should you have any further info I would love to have it. (My ex-wife is half Dutch, so perhaps I was reverting to type!) Having said that I am not one to say "You come from Australia so you must know so & so", I will now ask if, by any strange chance you, or rather your husband, is related to Judith Cock, aka DURHAM, the singer of the days of my youth? I knew a cousin of hers in Southwold. There is one COCK / SELLON link that I am aware of, via the firm of Johnson Mathey, precious metal refiners, of London in the mid 1800s. Yours aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia The ancient avocation of picking pockets may eventually lead to the possession of a farm and a thousand acres on the River Hawkesbury. There is some risk that Transportation will be considered as one of the surest roads to honour and wealth. Sydney Smith 1771 - 1845, Canon of St. Paul's.

Hello All: I just saw reference to Huguenots and/or Walloons being transported from England in Andrew SELLONs posting - I have just found many TREFFITT names in the Australian records under TASMANIA so suspect their ancestors were transported along with many others. I am connected to the TREFFITTs or may be, through Anthennett or Antoinette TREFFITT who was married to Jacques MARQUILLIER and emigrated to Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, England abt 1628 with the group of drainage experts hired by Cornelius Vermuyden - either from Leiden or Middelburg, Walcheren, The Netherlands. I hadn't thought to look for missing family members in Australia or Tasmania or New Zealand but there are many TREFFITTs there. Regards - Carol California