It's one of those names that gets spelled in a variety of ways. There aren't many Trossells around in this country, more Trussells and even more Throssells. I have come across all three spellings tracing the family history back. My dad's family (all ag labs.)came to Bradford from Huntingdonshire in the 1870's. I have managed to trace them back to about 1790, but lost the will to live struggling with the name in parish registers before then. Trozl, Trysell.....anything beginning with T!
I would love to make a link with the ancient family but there is a huge gap. They had the manor of Billesley in Warwickshire for 400 years from the 12th Century. Acton Trussell and Marston Trussell are two other places named after them. I had never heard of them until an internet search came up with the name Trossell on a monument to the
battle of Evesham in 1265.
I hoped I had found a tenuous link when I discovered from this website about the
Hundred Years War that some of them were archers under the Earl of Huntingdon. It turned out that it was just a title and that he probably never went near Huntingdon, but perhaps he pensioned some off his soldiers off in the county!
Anyway, this little group of farms & cottages keeps cropping up, and I would love to know what the connection is.