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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Re Ollier
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 21:51:29 +0100
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Lawrence -

It will be of little comfort to you, but I am exactly the same position as
you with my name, Sellon.

There was a cluster of them in Hants from the mid C16th and through into the
C17th, millers, farriers and the odd ag. lab.. There was a very much more
distinguished lot in France at that time, who then high tailed it to Geneva
at the time of the Revocation. There still are a number of Sellons in
France.

Over a number of years I have been totally unable to link 'my lot' back to
France although I am convinced, for no very good reason, that that is where
they came from.

There is the odd whiff of both SellOn and SellEn down the Severn Valley and
also in Kent, with the merest hint of the name early on in the Norwich area.
This post is no more than to say that you are not alone in your
frustrations, there must be others on the list in the same situation.

One day, when least expected, all will become clear!

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia
Every law which originated in ignorance and malice, and gratifies the
passions from which it sprang, we call the wisdom of our ancestors. Rev.
Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's.


From: "lawrence ollier" <>

<snip> my surname of Ollier is evident in Cheshire
> back to the 1600's where as the main exodus of the Huguenots to the UK
seems
> to be around the 1690's by which time we were well established, the
earliest
> record I know of in my area of Chehire is recoded as Allohiere in 1572 as
to
> wether this is the same lot I am not sure. But one thing I am sure of is
> that the vast majority of the OLLIER's in the world are in France hence
the
> hunch.

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