Jan: Good lead. Thanks. Gabe > ---------- > From: Jan & David Faulkner[SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 10:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NEVILLE-L] Edward Neville/Jean de Neufville > > Gabe and Peter, > > What a great find on your line! I hope someone will post the letter > Nonette's family has. > > The SC Huguenots (and GA descendants), after they fled persecution in > France, were in Switzerland, Holland, England, Scotland and Ireland, among > other places, where they found refuge with or through other protestants > before coming to this country. Some records of the de Neufvilles in > Charleston, SC are confusing because one may show a person b. in England > or > France and another show him b. in SC. The Huguenots were pretty clannish > at > first. It probably would not have been unusual for them to call themselves > French two or three generations after they arrived in this country. > > Has anyone interested in the de Neufville (sometimes Neuville/Neaville) > family ever contacted the folks at Heritage Papers in GA? Mary Bondurant > Warren, who was head of that organization until she retired, spent quite a > bit of time running down connections of Huguenots here and in Europe. I > think she could have some information on the de Neufvilles. While I don't > know for sure that the NY de Neufvilles were related to the SC group, many > of the family names were the same and according to what I have read, the > Huguenots moved in and out of settlements up and down the coast. You can > probably find the Heritage Papers address on-line. > > Jan > > > > > > ==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Neville Heritage Society Home Page: > http://www.prairienet.org/neville/ >