Toni If this Nevil Maskelyne is connected to John Nevil Maskelyne (1839 - 1917), the illusionist, I can help you with quite a lot of biographical information (and pictures), because I researched an article on him for the Newbury Weekly News back in 1996*. All the notes are in hard copy, I'm afraid, so you'll have to give me your postal address (if interested) and I'll send you some photocopies. I see from my notes at the time that I saw in the Berks Record Office a pedigree of the Maskelyne family of Minety in Wilts, going back to 1674, which might also be of interest, although my notes say "too fragile/large to photocopy". If you want to pursue this perhaps you'd better contact me off-list. Penny Stokes pennystokes@hamsteadmarshall.net *which vindicates my policy of never, ever throwing out old notes! ----- Original Message ----- From: "toni evans" <toni.evans@xtra.co.nz> To: <berkshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:52 AM Subject: Re: [BRK] Death of Nevil MASKELYNE ( 1857 ) > Many many thanks Michael, this is one of my lot, regards Toni in NZ >