Paddy, Thanks for the info. Just to clarify: I didn't mean to put any words in your mouth. Some of what I posted came from information my great aunt dug out years ago. But didn't you have some information that Moses Neville might have been descended from Huguenots from New York? If not, I apologize for my bad memory! >---------- >From: Paddy Chitty[SMTP:pchitty@hwcn.org] >Sent: Friday, August 08, 1997 12:27 PM >To: 'Neville List' >Subject: Re: Jean deNeufville > > >Gabe: > >On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Neville, Gabe 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 > >Sorry but I have made no such discovery and I don't recall saying that. >It is merely a possibility. What I may have said is that my Nevills here >in Ontario married into the SECORD (SICARD) family who were of Huguenot >ancestry and whose home when coming to North America was in New Rochelle, >N.Y. as was Dr. Jean Neufvilles. The above mentioned marriage took >place in 1808 which is a long time removed from Dr. John Neufville of New >Rochelle. There is of course a chance that these families were >acquainted back in New Rochelle; it was a small settlement so they >likely were but whether that would be remembered in Ontario more than >100 years later is doubtful. However it is certainly worth exploring the >possibility of our Nevill ancestors in MD being of Huguenot ancestry. > >> 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. >> >Last week I wrote to The Huguenot Society in N.Y. State asking if they >have any information on John Neufville in their files and if so could I >purchase copies. I will post the results if and when I obtain any. > > Paddy > >