NEVILLE

(origin: Fr.) "De Neuve ville," of the new town. Neuville, a town in Poitou, France.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

NEVILLE. NEVEI;L. In Latin, Be Nova Villa, anglice, ' New-town.' There are two Nevilles, and at least eighteen Neuvilles in Normandy, but from which of those localities tliis illustrious surname is derived there is no proof; and indeed the eai'ly genealogy of the family is obscure. Dugdale, upon the authority of certain genealogists, asserts that the patriarch of the race in England was Gilbert de Neville, Admiral to the Conqueror, but there is, as the historian of the family remarks, no mention of him in Domesday. Rowland, Family of Nevill, p. 6. The great granddaughter of this Admiral, Isabel Neville, married one Robert Fitz-Maldred, who according to Roger Hoveden, was the lineal heir-male of Uchtred, Earl of Northumljerlaud, in the days of Edmund Ironside, and a descendant in the female line from King Ethelred. The representative of the Northumbrian earls,Gospatrick,was established in his earldom jjy ihe Conqueror, but was afterwards compelled by Norman tyranny to fly into Scotland, where he became ancestor of the Earls of Dunbar, and eventually of the Nevilles of Raby. " The

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.