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Thanks for that. I'm sure you will have some useful links/information! I'm interested in my Great Grandfather Robert Cowell Bushell who, with extended family shifted from Barnstaple to Cardiff where several of them were builders/bricklayers- built around Canton where my Grandparents lived. Some of them went for temporary work to Kent where they worked on the Maidstone Jail. An odd place to go from the west, but then the origins of the family name are clearly from Kent/Norfolk. My Great Great grandmother was Eliza Jane COWELL b1829 Barnstaple and m Benjamin Bushell b1807 in Barnstaple. My father (now 95) told me all this and remembered the stories of his grandfather before he emigrated from Wales to NZ. Any info on this family and its origins appreciated, many thanks!