Gabe or Paddy, Has the Huguenot ancestry for those of Cecil Co., MD, now been established? The last information I had was that a researcher had pointed out that there could be a Huguenot connection, but that a definite link had not been established. I am very interested in the Cecil Co. Nevilles who could possibly have French ancestry. In my family, a tradition related to one of our orginal Neville ancestors is that he was a young man or boy from France who made his way to America but could not speak or write in English. The woman he married spelled the surname the way it sounded. Philip Nevill, who came to Mississippi by way of MD and PA, is probably the direct ancestor or brother of the ancestor of one of my Neville lines in Mississippi. I have a Nevil marrying a Nevels in 1830s in MS. Both were born in MS in early 1800s. Some evidence points to my other Neville line being related to those in Granville/Halifax/Orange Co., North Carolina area. Ironically, there are hints that some of those in NC may have been related to those Nevilles in MD. (The Moses Neville name in MD and NC is one interesting clue, Paddy.) A history of the area around Chapel Hill, NC, points out that many people who settled there were from PA. I am straying from the point here. Has a Huguenot link been found on the Cecil Co., MD Nevilles? Jan ____________ At 10:58 AM 8/8/97 -0400, you wrote: >This guy came from Tours, France and settled in New York State in about >1689. I understand that he had a son named Edward and also anglicized >his name to John Neville. Does anybody know any more about him? Given >what Paddy's discovered about Nevilles in Cecil Co. MD of Hugonaut >ancestry (who, if I remember right, Paddy, came via New York?), I think >there's a great possibility that Jean deNeufville is Paddy's, Pete's and >my common ancestor. > >Anybody know anything? > >