Neville's name (was: Neville's Gran)

[justcarol67]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "iris_ft" <iris_ft at y...> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, could someone tell me what "Neville" means? (sorry for 
> > being so lazy, but  actually I don't have enough free time to check 
> > the archives) Where does this name come from, and how do you 
> > pronounce it in english? 
> 
> Neville rhymes with Devil. I looked it up in
> http://www.behindthename.com for you:
> 
> << From a surname which was originally derived from a place name
> meaning "new town" in Norman French. >>


Don't kow whether this is relevant, but the Nevilles were a very rich
and powerful family in northern England in the fifteenth century.
Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, was called the Kingmaker for his
role in helping his Yorkist cousin Edward IV defeat the Lancastrian
Henry VI. (I'm oversimplifying, but any more details would take me too
far off topic.)

Carol