Society of John Neville Descendants newsletter
(Microfilm)

Seven issues per calendar year in 1976-1977; eight issues in 1978; quarterly thereafter.

No. 1 (Jan 1976) - no. 29 (Nov 1980)

Publication ceased with no. 29 (Nov 1980).

Editor: Joseph B. Neville.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (9 Dec. 2005).

Volume and issue number designations used in vol. 1 (1976); whole numbers thereafter (1977-1980).

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Neville families in who came mainly from Normandy to England and Wales, and then to America. Focus is on the descendants of John Neville (born 1612), an Englishman who immigrated in 1634, and waas one of the founders of the province of Maryland, later known as Calvert County, Maryland. He married three times; his wives were Br idget Thorsesby, Ann (?) who died ca. 1647, and Johanna Porter. John Neville died in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, in 1664. In the 1700's, some Neville families moved to Pennsylvania and Virginia. During the 1800's, some migrated to Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, and Tennessee. Later descendants and relatives also lived in England, and in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, and elsewhere.

Microreproduction of periodical published: Tucson, Arizona : Society of John Neville Descendants, 1976-1980. 29 nos. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.

The Society of John Neville Descendants was organized in 1976 by Joseph B. Neville and Bob Jett. Its headquarters in Tuscon, Arizona. The Society disolved ca. 1980.