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...

Christian and Paulina (Steiner) Bixel were born in Richmond Township, Allen County, Ohio in the mid 1800's. They married and raised their family, farmed, and died there. Samuel and Lydia (Brenneman) Diller lived in German Township, Allen County, Ohio. They married in 1888 and raised four children. Both families were Mennonites.

Michael Kainath, born January 29, 1720, was the son of Conrad Keinath. He was the first of his family to emigrate to America. He married Margaret Diller on 21 February 1749 at Staunton, Virginia. Margaret had settled, with her parents, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania about 1729 or 1731. Children of Michael and Margaret were: George Adam, Conrad, George Michael, Elizabeth, Mary, Casper, Catharine, S. John, Martin, Jacob, Christian, Philip, and Frederick....

Caster Diller (b. 1696) a Huguenot, immigrated from France to Germany and perhaps to Holland and England. He immigrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania during or before 1738. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky and elsewhere.

John David Keilholtz was born January 30, 1852 and died December 15, 1929. Includes Diller, Hollinger, Montgomery, Ogle, Valentine and related families.

Johannes Frey (1758-1838) and Christian Frey, probably brothers, immigrated before 1785 from the Palatinate via Rotterdam to land in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Johannes was anglicized to John, and John married twice. Descendants and relatives listed lived chiefly in Pennsylvania. Includes Burkholder, Crider, Diller, Eby, Horst, Lehman, Martin, Shank and related families.

The descendants of Martin Egle, whose ancestors lived in Switzerland by the name of Egli. Many of his ancestors were Mennonites and probably emigrated to Germany to escape religious persecution, where they changed the name to Egle. Christian Egle (1822-1892), whose ancestors lived in Monsheim, Lerchenhof, Wimsheim, Heimsheim and Schloss Obermonsheim, Württemberg, settled in Riet near Vaihingen, also in Württemberg, Germany. He and his wife, Maria...

Chiefly a record of some of the ancestors and descendants of Otto Adolph Kitzmann. He was born 20 Aug 1868 in Pozen, Germany, to Fredrick Kietzman and Caroline Albrecht. He and his mother immigrated to America in1872. He married Agusta Wilhelmina (Minnie) Messerschmidt 4 Jun 1891 in Madison, Wisconsin. She was born 9 Sep 1865 in Madison, Wisconsin, to Ernst Messerchmidt and Caroline Hundertmark. They were the parents of four children. He died...

George H. Keener (1829-1878) was born in Würtemburg, Bavaria, Germany. He married Veronica (Fannie) Stauffer (1826-1914) in 1854. He immigrated to Lancaster Co., Pa. in 1848. Veronica Stauffer left Bavaria for Lancaster Co. in 1841. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and elsewhere.

Three brothers, Christopher, William and August Dohrs, and two sisters, Johanna and Julia Dohrs, were born in Germany and individually immigrated to Illinois. Christorpher Dohrs (1843-1907) married Minnie Fischer and they had ten children. Johnanna Dohrs (1833-1879) married Louis Bodfe and they had two children. Julia Dohrs (1848-1894) married Fred Drosten and they had nine children. William Dohrs (1846-1919) and August Dohrs (1852-18??) were not...