The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-10

longs to the wyatt family of SherWell,
County Devon, and Bexley County Kent
England. as well as to the American fam
lily of the name. It Is blazoned thus: Per
fcses, azure and gules, a pair OF barna-
Giles argent the ring or. The crest is an
ostrich proper, in the beak of a horseshoe
argent
denotes sincerity; gules, magnanimity;
sable, constancy or generously.
Mark Anthony the first Is called the
son Of Sir Charles Anthony of England,
who, for SERVICES rendered the crown.
was knighted and given land in Vir-
ginia. $500
Sarah Anthony, born 174s, in vir.
GINA, and granddaughter OF Mark
Anthony, married Capt. Thomas Coop
er and their descendants can claim
membership with all patriotic societies
going--7or nearly all. Captain Thomas
was in the revolution; he was member
of the House of Burgesses and rep
resentative at the convention of 1888.
To A. N. who asks for the coat OF
arms of the Neville family and come
thing of the pedigree of the English
family of that name. i
Neville is name which has had a
variety of forms at different times, ac-
cording to old records. Among the num-
Der may be mentioned Nevil, Nevill,
Neevill Neville, Newell Newell, Nevelle
Naefville, Nevyle, Neuvilles.
In Normandy, France-and the Ne
villes are of Norman as well as Saxon
lineage-there are two towns called
Neville and IS named Melville or Neu-
villes. Nova Vile or Neuve Vile is
another form of the name, which,
translated into English, becomes New
Town.
"A family of note in the north OF
England" is the usual term by which
the Nevilles are referred to in history.
Records begin with Gilbert De Nevill,
the Norman, companion In arms of
William the Conqueror, 1066-his adj
miral he is supposed to have been.
Gilbert De Nevills son was Godfrey,
and it was his son, whose name has not
been handed down. who married Emma,
daughter and heiress of Bertram de
Bulmer. a great baron of the north,
and died 1874. leaving issue--namely.
Henry. who died without issue, 1927,
and Isobel, who succeeded to the es-
tates of Bu1mer and Nevi1l.
This great heiress, 1sobel, narried
Robert Fitz Maldred, descendant of
King Ethelred. and the Saxon Lord of
Raby, of the Industrious stock of the
Earls of Northumberland. in the Dish
opric of Durham. and had a son. Geof-
Trey, WIN, duOPtiHe his sui
name and inheriting the combined es-
tates, became Godfrey De Neville of
Raby.
The coat of arms of their descendants
contains quarterings, decorated with
emblems OF both Nevill of Bulmar and
Nevill of Raby, showing their descent
from them.
Among these are the Earl or Marquis
of Abergavenny and the present Ears
of Westmoreland.
Robert De Nevill succeeded mis- faith
er. Godfrey De Nevill of Raby. lie died
in 1882 and was succeeded by his
grandson. Ralph De Neviil, who was
summoned to Parliament as ''baron
Raby," June s, 1894. He died in 1891
and was succeeded by his son, Ralph De
Nevill, the second Baron Raby. Sir John
De Nevill was summoned to Parliament
1868 to 1888 He was admiral of the
Kings combined fleet. lieutenant of
Aquitajne and seneschal of Bordeaux.
In the province of Aquitaine and In
wars with France he won and had rem
dered to him SO walled towns, castles
and forts. He died in 1888 and was
succeeded by his eldest son, Ralph De
| Nevill, who, on September 20. 1897, by
royal charter was advanced. IN tull
Parliament, to the dignity of Earl OF
Westmoreland.
Dalph De Nevill married Joan. daugh-
ter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
| One of the famous ones of the family,
| Richard Nevil, Earl of Warwick. the
| king maker was the grandson OF Ralph
and Joan. Richard III. King Of England
| was the son of Richard and Cicely Ne
Vile, aunt of the king maker, who was
| first cousin to Edward ~, and second
cousin to Henry vi.
The Earl OF Warwick's landed property
was enormous. comprising, according ia
the deed by which his widow made It
over to Henry VII, over, 100. manors. be-
sides the city ofWorcester, the islands OF
Guernsey, Jersey. Attorney and Sark.
At his house in London six oxen were
usually served at a breakfast, and every
guest could have as much, meat as he
| could carry away on a long dagger.
His career illustrates the grandeur OF
foudalism-tiie last of the barons" he Is
called. II
The, coat-of arms is blazoned: Gules. or
a saltier argent rose of the field barbed
seeded proper. M ~
Crest. bulls head pied. AK
Supporters, two greyhounds collared
proper.
Motto. NE Vile Wells ('incIine t,
nothing base'D, or. as some branches o
the family have It, me Vile edo III
eyil'') This motto is what is called
punning motto, being play on the name
or, to use the correct heraldic term,
canting motto, which is the Oldest form
OF motto. e.
To l. L., who asks. for early American
record of the Lucas family.
I Two of the family came over froy
England before the middle Of the seven
tenth century Thomas and John wer
these Pilgrim fathers. Thomas was borl
In Tenterden. Kent county. England
about 1910. Twenty-Five years later W
find him resident of Scituate. Mass
and about this time he married Mary
daughter Of Elder Nathaniel Tilden.
John, a weaver from Devonshire, wher
he was born in 1925, settled in Providence
In l., where he married Mary. daughte
of william Mann. They had four son
and one daughter, and his descendant
. are now found in New England. Ne'
York and the west
| Laphams in search of family data wi
find much interesting matter in Amer
can Ancestry; in local histories of Main,
Vermont, New Hampshire, 'Massachusett
and Rhode Island in Austin's and SAY
aoe's Genoalorical DictiOna rieS