Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 482-483:
William H. Neville, one of the younger farmers of Gosfield North, and a public-spirited citizen, who is ever ready to help in any movement for the betterment of his community, was born March 27, 1866, near Pontiac, Michigan, though he comes of one of Canada's old families, being a son of Edward and Sarah (McKenzie) Neville.
The first of the family to settle in Essex was Edward Neville, a native of Ireland, who came to Canada with his family of five sons, Robert, Edward, James, George and Francis, and one daughter. Francis Neville was born in July, 1798, married Nancy Williams, born Oct. 4, 1805, and settled on what is now Lot 271, Talbot Road South, in 1825, in the days when the country was an unbroken wilderness, and the only road an Indian trail from the lake to Windsor. On the farm which he cleared in the midst of this wilderness, Francis Neville and his wife lived for the rest of their days, and of their eleven children, nine reached maturity: (1) Thomas married Agnes Beatty, and lived and died on the old homestead, leaving a family of three, James (of Cottam)...
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