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Hounsells, Foords and Boys, by Keith Foord, published September 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 7, article, pp.320-325) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508848] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

For the last two years Rosalie Raftis of Perth, Australia and the author have been extensively researching our families by email collaboration. We had found that we had common ancestors named HOUNSELL. HOUNSELL is a rare name (except in Dorset - with a large website: www.hounsell.org.uk), but there is a separate focus originating from Rye. From this two distinct HOUNSELL lines exist in New Zealand. There are also many descendants in Australia related to a single Sussex HOUNSELL, Anne Eleanor of Battle. Descendants in both Australia and New Zealand considerably outnumber Sussex HOUNSELLs. It was noted that only one Sussex HOUNSELL immigrated to North America and he returned a year later, but that the emigration pattern of the Dorset HOUNSELLs was mainly to North America, particularly to Newfoundland, Canada.
HOUNSELLs have several ancestral links with the BOYS via marriages, in the author's case a double link via the FOORD family.