Listers - I have my doubts as to whether I am a legitimate member of your list or not, however, that is what I wish to establish. Research by Victorian members of my family showed a clear and certain line back to a Comte Jean Jacques SELLON of Nimes. Of course it is always very warming and rewarding to have such a line, a Count at the head of it does add something to the line! BUT, unfortunalty, more recent work has shown SELLONs hard at work as yeoman farmers, ag. labs., farriers and millers in north Hampshire as early as the mid C16th. The earliest of my line that I have trace of being John SELLON(D) of Eversely, Hants, bn. before 1570 and dd abt. January 1643/44. In this line I can not find the hint of a link to either France or the Low Countries. (One did become a clock maker in London, but the rest seem determinedly rural. However, there certainly was a SELLON family of Nimes, at least one brother of which settled in Geneva, Switzerland, as below: Descendants of Jacques SELLON, (RP) (E) 1 Jacques Sellon, (RP) (E) b: 1638 in ? d: 1698 in ? .. +Catherine RIFINSGUE, (RP) (E) b: Unknown in ? m: 1671 in ? d: Unknown in ? ........ 2 Francois Sellon, (RP) (E) b: 1671 in ? d: Unknown in ? ............ +Louisa (?), w. of Francois Sellon (RP) (E) b: Unknown in ? m: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Andre Sellon, (RP) (E) b: 17 April 1753 in Nimes, Languedoc, France. (@) d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Jean Sellon, (RP) (E) b: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? ........ *2nd Wife of Francois Sellon, (RP) (E): ............ +Suzanne ALLEGNA, (RP) (E) b: Unknown in ? m: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Henri Francois Sellon, (RP), (E) b: 16 April 1772 in Geneva, Gen, Switzerland, (@) d: Unknown in ? ........ 2 Jean Jacques Sellon, (RP) (E) b: 1697 in ? d: Unknown in ? ............ +Francoise BOISSIER, (RP) (E) b: Unknown in Anduze m: 1697 in Geneva, Switzerland d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Catherine Sellon, (E) b: 1699 in bp. at the Madeline d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Elizabeth Sellon, (E) b: 1700 in bp. at the Madeline d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Gaspard Sellon, Sieur. D'ALLAMAN(E) b: 21 November 1702 in ? d: 1785 in ? ............................ 4 x ? daughters Sellon, of Gaspard (E) b: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Guillaume Henri Sellon, (RP) (E) b: 12 May 1704 in Geneva, Switzerland, (@) d: 1764 in ? ...................... +Charlotte Elizabeth FAYOLLE, (@) (E) b: Unknown in ? m: 1725 in Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland d: Unknown in ? ............................ 4 Jeanne Elizabeth Sellon, (@) (E) b: 31 March 1726 in Lyon, Rhone, France d: Unknown in ? ................................ +Ami Jean DE LA RIVE, (@) (E) b: Unknown in ? m: 10 February 1751/52 in Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland d: 1800 in ? ............................ 4 Elizabeth Charlotte Sellon, (@) (E) b: Abt. 1728 in Lyon, Rhone, France d: Unknown in ? ................................ +John Arthur DE VILLETTES, (@) (E) b: 1701 in ? m: 17 June 1750 in Chen-Bourge, Geneve, Switzerland d: 1776 in Bath ............................ 4 Anne Sellon, (@), (E) b: 17 July 1729 in Lyon, Rhone, France d: Unknown in ? ............................ 4 Jeanne Francoise Sellon, (@) (E) b: 30 December 1738 in Lyon, Rhone, France d: Unknown in ? ................................ +Jean Jacques BOISSIER, (E) b: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Jane Elizabeth Sellon, (@) (E) b: 19 September 1705 in Genova, Genova, Switzerland d: Unknown in ? ...................... +Charles TYRRELL, Sir, (8th & last Bt.) (E) b: Unknown in of Thornton Hall, Bucks m: 24 May 1726 in St.Pierre, Genova, Genova, Italy, (@) d: 20 January 1748/49 in ? .................. 3 Jean Francois Sellon, (RP) (E) b: 1707 in of Allaman, Vaud, Switzerland d: 1790 in ? ...................... +Suzanne CHABERT, (RP) (E) b: Unknown in ? m: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? ............................ 4 Jean Sellon, Count (of the Holy Roman Empire)(E) b: 29 April 1736 in Paris, France d: Unknown in ? ................................ +Anne Marie Sussanne Victoire MONTZ, (E) b: Unknown in ? m: 19 July 1772 in ? d: Unknown in ? ............................ 4 Elisabeth Henriette Sellon, (@) (E) b: Abt. 1744 in Allaman, Vaud, Switzerland d: Unknown in ? ................................ +Jean Jacques DE TOURNES, (@) (E) b: Unknown in ? m: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? ............................ 4 Adelaide Susan Sellon, (E) b: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? ................................ +Michel Antoine BENSON, Maquise DE CAVOUR (E) b: Unknown in ? m: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? .................. 3 Elizabeth Sellon, dd young? (E) b: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? ........ 2 x2dtrs Sellon, of Jacques & Catherine, (RP) (E) b: Unknown in ? d: Unknown in ? Apparently a distinguished lot, but not linked in any discernible way to 'us here lot' in England. Names do appear above that have strong English / Irish Huguenot pedigrees, I believe. There were some additional SELLONs in Kent, (centred on Canterbury?), and in Gloucestershire, up the Severn Valley. I can not believe that the name of SELLON did not originate in France, where there are still a smattering living, (an even smaller smattering being in Spain). This does not of course presuppose a Huguenot link but there is, I feel, a reasonable chance of one. If any list member has run across the name in any context what so ever I would be most interested to hear. Sorry for the length - I hope subsequent postings of mine will not be as tedious for most! Yours aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia I look on Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. Sydney Smith, 1771-1845. Canon of St. Paul's. Yours aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Sydney Smith 1771-1845, Canon of St.Paul's.