At 09:15 AM 3/5/99 -0500, you wrote: Then Ryan >has info that the Wayne Co KY & IL Neavill's families came from NC >as Neufville's. So, this thread goes from NC to (maybe TN) to KY to >AL? Barbara, Did Ryan actually establish a link between a Neavill group in KY and/or IL and a Neufville group? The Halifax, NC Neville group, to whom I referred in the previous post as possibly related to Nevilles in AL, KY, and/or AR, have never been linked to the Neufvilles. The de Neufvilles of the South originally lived in Charleston, SC before migrating to GA and maybe AL, but I have never seen an actual link between their group and the NC Nevilles (of any spelling). I remember Ryan did find a reference to a ship in a biography of one of the IL Neavills and the ship was also associated with the Neufville group, but I did not realize he had established an actual link between the two groups. I may have missed some of the discussion. Charleston, SC was the scene of quite a bit of action during the Revolution. Presley Neville and his father John Neville (Gen. John of Pittsburg, PA) were prisoners of war in the NC/SC area for a while, so it is possible that an ancestor of the IL Neavills could have been in the same area as the Neufvilles in SC and not be related. Ryan and I did discuss the SC Neufvilles because the IL reference he quoted had a note that the family was French. Did he perhaps find more evidence of a link I missed? The de Neufvilles of SC had a Benj. Marshall Neufville in their family, and this name has intrigued me. The Marshall surname, including a Benj. Marshall, is associated with the Wm. Nevill group of Isle of Wight/Nansemond Co., VA. The Halifax & Orange Co., NC group is likely (but not proven) to have been linked with the Wm. Nevill group and the Marshall group of IOW/Nansemond Co., VA. I suspect the Benj. Nevill name in the IOW/Nansemond Co., VA family came from the link with Benj. Marshall. This tiny clue has led me to speculate before about my "grand" Huguenot immigrant theory and wonder if Wm. of IOW might be connected with other Hugenot immigrants up and down the coast in the 1600s, including the Neufvilles, but I have nothing else to support my idea...yet. Jan