Passenger list for Neptune 1939 (found at http://www.rootschat.com/history/hastings/content/view/90/30/ ) lists Thomas as coming out with a Mary Goodsell. All the kids seem correct as listed in this thread though.This confusion is caused by the slightly different way the family has been recorded in the shipping list. Normally parents are listed with the father first, but in Mary's case she has been recorded as the "daughter of Eleanor Goodsell and John, her husband". All quite correct as far as it goes, except they didn't record the fact that John's surname was PUXTED (or PUXTY).
Again, if you look in the LDS Family Search database for 'Thomas Boxsell' - you'll find one who was married to Mary Goodsell. It says her mother was 'Eleanor' and father 'John Goodsell'. (same christian names for the parents of Mary Puxted).This marriage entry also contains the dreaded words "Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church." It is NOT an extract from a PR, but only someone else's research. Maybe this researcher was also confused by the shipping entry? Whatever the reason, the information is wrong. (At the risk of upsetting any LDS members reading this, I contend that the LDS made a HUGE mistake when they opened up the IGI to user submissions. The IGI is no longer the authoratative source it once was.)
Have you seen my website at
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswgdhs/pioneers.htm? You'll find some more information there. Please contact me directly (link on the website), so we can compare notes, particularly about your part of the BOXSELL tree.
John