The Bolles of Osberton's line which later settled in New England is the only current line which can document its claim to a direct descent from The Bolles of Swineshead.  The Joseph Bolles who sailed to America probably around 1635-40 was the younger brother of John Bolles of Osberton, and inherited this estate on his death in 1666. He settled in Wells, Maine, and founded the extensive American family of Bolles.  Please see their web site at The Bolles Family Association.  The Osberton line is otherwise extinct today. 

See The Bolles of Osberton's Family Tree

See The Bowles of Deal, Kent

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Notes:

William was one of Lord Thomas Cromwell’s commissioners executing the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII and in the dissolution received the Priory of Felley.  He sold Felley and with those profits purchased Osberton, Notts. (near Worksop) from another commissioner, Robert Dighton.

(While his own writings claim his descent from the Bolle of Haugh, he bore different coat-of-arms and he added the “s” to the name and therefore this connection has been disputed.  No reason is known for his connection to Suffolkshire rather than Lincolnshire and the history of the new arms is not known.)