---------- From: George Allison <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: William Neville - Pike Co. MO Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 11:49 AM At 03:08 AM 5/27/98 +0000, you wrote: >George, > >I can't detect any typical Neville names in your lists of Bonham >children. But, William Neaville Bonham and Martin Neaville Bonham could >have been the result of being named for relatives. > >I believe that the Presley Neville who m Lucy Gwathmey 1812 in >Louisville, KY was a son of Joseph b 1733. This Presley d 1814 with no >children. There was a brother William, but I don't think it is your man. > This William first appears on the Hampshire Co VA personal property tax >list in 1800, so he probably was born ca 1779. From a letter Joseph >wrote it appears this William was probably in the War of 1812 and in 1810 >was an agent for his father to sell land in Hamilton Co, OH. I am only >working on a hypothesis at this point, but this William may have been the >man who m Mary Bryan 1806 in Hamilton Co, OH & d 1833. The 360/370 Year >History has him as the William of Harford Co, MD which I am convinced is >wrong. > >Anyway, you need to gather more data on your William to help sort out the >pieces. > >Shirley > Shirley, I am preparing to make a trek to the Sutro State Library to chase down a number of people in census data and other sources, and one household that I would like to locate is that of Nehemiah Martin Bonham and Mahala Neville. Maybe it will provide a clue where William Neville/Lucy Oglesby resided in 1822 when Mahala was born. The following is an excerpt for an obituary of my gg-grandfather, Martin Neaville Bonham: Martin Bonham was born in Iowa, August 28, 1850. His mother died when he was less than five months old and his father when he was eleven months old. With his sister and three brothers were taken into the family of his aunt and uncle near Lancester, Wisconsin. Originally I assumed Martin was born in Grant Co., where the Bonham families moved after Pike Co., MO. The aunt and uncle referred to in the obituary are Francis Holmes Bonham and Mary Ann Neville. I was wondering if you have index data to the 1850 Iowa census? A search of the WFT online data yields that there is a Martin Bonham in the 1850 Iowa census, which could be Nehemiah going by his middle name, but I don't know which county. Francis is listed in Grant, WI, (I have seen the original), but no Nehemiah after 1840 census. Also, I have traced my Bartlett line back to Shelby Co., KY, where I also see Nevills. Have you connected these Nevilles to the others that you have researched? Could William of Shelby, KY and William of Pike, MO be one in the same? Again I see a familiar name of Amelia Neville in an 1808 Shelby KY marriage. Also there is a John Neville land grant on Clear Creek, which I believe is in Shelby County, and John H. Neville is the first Nevill that I have seen to appear in a Shelby Co. census. There seems to be a trail of names suggesting some sort of relationship to the Generals, but I have seen nothing posted for these Nevills. I'm trying to prepare a list of lookups to perform in the limited time that I will have at the library. I could probably spend weeks confirming leads that I have found via the internet, and I want to prioritize based upon efficiency (i.e., where I have page references). Do you have any hot Neville leads that you would like looked up? George -------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Allison e-mail: [email protected] Registrar's Office, 124 Mrak Hall University of California, Davis voice: (530) 752-2618 Davis, CA 95616 fax: (530) 752-0329 --------------------------------------------------------------------------