Shirley, Thanks for the offer to look at the "1874 letter Nevills (MD/Ohio) claiming French origin", I've been up to my ears in alligators, but will get to the NGS library Monday night. I will drop off a copy of the letter for your then. Thanks again, Peter ----------------reply separator------------- >X-Message: #3 >Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:32:08 -0400 From: Shirley L Wilcox ><[email protected]> To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [NEVILLE-L] #3: 1874 letter Nevills (MD/Ohio) claiming >French origin > >Peter, > >I'd be happy to take a look at it. If you still plan to get to the >NGS Library, leave it there with the librarian. >. .>Shirley > >On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 08:19:59 -0500 [email protected] >writes: >> >> Laura, >> >> I double checked my "not so clear" copy of the original 1874 >>letter. I'm >> far from an expert on old handwriting, but I can't see anything >> like a "y" in the Perkendall/Kerkendall name. Amond does look .>like Amond >> to me. > > I will scan the document and send to to your e-mail directly >(would anyone > else like a copy?) for review. The more eyes we get looking at >this letter > the better!! > > Thank you much for the help! > > Peter > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >X-Message: #3 > >Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:42:23 -0500 > >From: "Laura McKenzie" <[email protected]> To: > > >[email protected] > >Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [NEVILLE-L] #2: 1874 letter Nevills (MD/Ohio) >claiming > >French origin Content-Type: text/plain; > >charset="iso-8859-1" > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >Hi, I wonder if Kerkendall/ Perkendall is right? I've never >seen the > >name near Nevilles but I have seen Kuykendall (and many many >various > >spellings.) > >Also, Amond, could that be Arnold by any chance? > >Kuykendall was Dutch/German I believe from New Amsterdam. Its an >old > >old family and one that is allied to my Browns (who supposedly >had a > >Frances Neville in them). The Kuykendalls went NY to PA >(Chester Co > >etc.) to old Frederick Co Va (and Hampshire Co Va.. where a >Joseph > >Neville lived as a matter of fact.) > > > >Brothers & Sisters). Edward & Thomas maried two Sisters Named > > > >campbell, John to Elisabeth Grant and Elisabeth to Perkendall, > > Elisabeth to Kerkendall (Perkendall?). Hannah to Biggs her > > >first man > > Her second john cotten. > > Mary to Jacob Amond. Nancy to Cames Claypole their >mother > >died in > > Bever Co penn in her 90 year. > > >==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== >Your donations to RootsWeb make the NEVILLE Mailing List possible. >RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 >http://www/rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ______________________________