At 09:20 AM 12/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >Jan my name is William J. Neville and I am starting to get interested in my >roots at the age of 57 I am unfamiliar with the correct method of contacting >people so if this message should be directed to someone else I would appreciate >your letting me know. while looking for Neville info on the Internet I came >across the subject file, in it is mentioned a William J. Neville.(in jail I >believe) who was 30 yrs old in 1849 My great great grandfather William J >Neville was born Jan. 23,1819 and my aunt who was very interested in Neville >family history said that she thought our family came from South Carolina. My >ggfather died in 1899 in Onancock Va and is buried there.Is there any way to >determine if the William J Neville in this file is the same one. William, I appreciate your contacting me about your ancestor William J. Neville. To what subject file are you referring? It sounds like one that was on the Roots-L Neville list. >Would there be any Trial or court records in S.C. that might shed further >light on this?I am attempting to get further info on him through the local >library and court records in Accomack Co. Va. I have a twin brother named >Junius and my aunt wanted my middle name to be Joshua but I ended up with >Joseph.All of this sort of fits in with the subject file. thanks ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> Have you checked the 1850 census in Accomack Co., VA to see where William J. Neville lists his place of birth? That information would help you know if you are on the right track (the 1850 Accomack Co., VA census may be on-line). If he was indeed from SC and William J., Joshua, and Junius are family names in your Neville line, then you want to look carefully at Joshua Neville who arrived in Charleston, SC from Ireland and whose descendants lived in Richland Co., SC. He first shows up on the census in Charleston Co., SC in 1810. He is also on the 1830 and 1840 census in Charleston Co. The 1850 census of Richland Co., SC (Columbia) shows Joshua there, along with Henry W. Neville and William J. Neville in the same county. Some evidence suggests that Nevilles/Nevels in the Colquitt Co., GA area and in the Giles Co., TN area may be part of Joshua's line. The migration pattern also suggests that some of the family was moving both west and north from SC. We have had at least two other list members descended from Joshua. In SOUTH CAROLINA NATURALIZATIONS 1783-1850 by Brent Holcomb is the following information on p. 25: Joshua, age 46 Nation of origin: Queen's County, Ireland Residence: Charleston, SC Occupation: Cabinetmaker Admission: 15 Sep 1814 ------------- >From Shirley Wilcox on the Neville List: 1830 Census Charleston Dist, SC p82, City of Charleston, Ward 4 JOSHUA NEVILL - - 2 3 3 0 1 0 1 - - 2 1 1 - 1 4sl HENRY W NEVILL 1 - 1 - - 1 1 1 1 = = 1 1f 90-100 5 sl NOTE: These two were enumerated next to each other. Some ages of these people can be found below. 1850 Census Richland Co., SC p24 (this is a jail) Columbia 420 431 WILLIAM J NEVILLE 1849, 30, m, printer, SC, burglary 429 440 HENRY W NEVILLE, 54, m, cabinet maker, SC ANN M, 54, f, SC WILLIAM, 30, m, cabinet maker, SC HENRIETTA, 26, f, SC MARGARET, 24, f, SC ELIZABETH, 22, f, SC HENRY, 20, m, printer, SC THOMAS, 18, m, printer, SC JUNIUS, 14, m, SC, school p28 484 499 JOSHUA NEVILLE, 85, m, cabinet maker, England CLEMENT B, 32, m, clerk, 1300, SC MARY E, 28, F, 700, SC ---------- Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia, South Carolina Newspapers 1838-1860 (including legal notices from burnt counties) by Brent Howard Holcomb p. 91 The South-Carolinian Issue of February 3, 1851 Died, at the residence of his daughter, in Warren County, Ga., of asthma, on Monday, the 10th instant, Joshua Neville, in the 86th year of his age. he was a native of Ireland, and removed to Charleston, S.C., at an early age.... [ellipsis are in the text] -------------------- Note the above discrepancies on places of birth for Joshua--Ireland and England. Ireland seems more likely, since he always gave that place himself. However, one of our former Neville list members, Sandi Frierson, said that her family tradition was that Joshua Neville's family was originally from England, and that he was disinherited because he was a Quaker. I have more which I can forward to you about Joshua Neville and his line. He and his son Henry were cabinetmakers in Charleston and were in several suits there in an effort to obtain payments for work they did for various people. William J. Neville on the above Richland Co. (Columbia), SC census may have been Henry's son (listed both in jail and at home with Henry on the above Richland Co. census) or brother (son of Joshua) or nephew (son of one of Joshua's older children). Perhaps others on the Neville discussion list have more information about the Accomack Co., VA Neville line. Jan