Hugeunot family Muzzell

[Whipwill]

Help please researching Muzzell (Muzzle) family believed to be traceable back the Huguenot emigrants. I have researched ancestors back to the late 1700s in Sussex but cannot get any further

[CaroleW]

Welcome to Rootschat

You haven't given any names or birth/death details

Census records only show birthplaces & the 1841 has over 70 entries in Sussex for that surname - including some slight variations -  but it sounds as though you are trying to get back further than 1700's

Can you clarify & give more info please

[mckha489]

Have you looked at records at The Keep.

For instance this will mentions land occupied by William Muzzle in 1691

https://www.thekeep.info/collections/getrecord/GB179_AMS4112_5_5_4331

[Whipwill]

Hello and thank you for your comments.
My interest is the Barker Muzzells in Newtimber and that area of Sussex. Research is complicated by frequent misspelling of Muzzell and contractions of the name to just Barker or Muzzell.

My earliest reliable records are John and Frances Barker Muzzell living in Newtimber and born there and Poynings respectively in 1805/6 and died in Newtimber in 1880 & 1975 restrictively. Buried in Newtimber churchyard.

John's parents may be James and Catherine or Caroline but this yet to be proven.

There is also a family story that the Muzzells are descendants of the Huguenots and the name is certainly recorded in the Huguenot Library , but this is till to be explored.

[martin hooper]

What information do you have which gives a connection to Huguenots?

Martin

[Whipwill]

Martin
As I said in my earlier post I do not have any firm evidence. What I do have is anecdotal, possible strengthened by the listing of the name at the Huguenot Library. If true they spread very quickly by the evidence in the 1841 census.