File:Neville hatchment - geograph.org.uk - 1148851.jpg

• Firstly, in 1830, to Gertrude Hotham, third daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Hotham (1770-1823), of the City of York (the eldest son of a younger son of Sir Beaumont Hotham, 7th Baronet (died 1771), thus a distant heir to the line of Lord Hotham of South Dalton which by his time had swallowed the older baronetcy[1]), by his first wife Caroline Gee, daughter (and heiress) of Roger Gee of Bishop Burton, Yorkshire. (peerage.com states that Gertrude was by her father's second wife, Rosamond Best (married 1813 (South Dalton Marriage Register in East Riding Archives: 29 June 1813 George Hotham and Rosamund Best, her father Rev Francis Best was Rector of South Dalton)), but the quartering shown here is of Gee. By his first wife Gertrude Hotham he had issue: (Source: [2] quoting "Burke" Peerage, Baronetcies etc. 107th edition volume 2 pages 1974-5 Hotham of South Dalton)
  • George Nevile, b. 5th July, 1833.
  • Charlotte Nevile, b. 10th October, 1831.
    
• Secondly to Mary Ann Tooth, daughter of Robert Tooth and Mary Ann Reader, in 1865 at Cranbrook, Kent (settlement for the marriage between him and Mary Ann Tooth was made on 8 August 1877 (peerage.com[3]). The white quarter in the sinister/wife's half indicates she was alive at the time of her husband's death.
  

Rev. Christopher Nevile II was the eldest son and heir of Capt. Christopher Nevile I (1769-), Royal Navy, of Thorney, by his first wife Ann-Elizabeth Acklom, eldest daughter of Jonathan Acklom, esq. of Wiseton, Nottinghamshire.

Arms of Nevile, quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Gules, a saltire argent (Neville modern)
• 2&3: Or fretty gules, on a canton per pale ermine and the first a ship with three masts sable (Neville ancient, arms of Neville, 12th century feudal barons of Ashby in Lincolnshire)

Impaling firstly: quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Barry of ten argent and azure, on a canton or a Cornish chough proper (Hotham, Baron Hotham) here shown with field Argent, four bars azure (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.510)
• 2&3: Gules, a sword in bend argent point upward hilt and pommel or (Gee (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.392))
  

Impaling secondly: quarterly of 2:

• 1: Argent (Tooth ? Arms with field gules given by Burke, 1884)
• 2: Sable (a Tooth heiress ?)
  

The new church was commissioned by Rev Christopher Neville who lived at Thorney Hall, for an approximate cost of £80,000. The manor of Thorney was purchased in 1567 by George Nevill of Grove, Esq. (being the inheritance of the Merings) who married Barbara Hercy, co-heiress of her brother Sir John Hercy of Grove, and 5th daughter of Sir Humphrey Hercy of Grove. George Nevill settled Thorney upon two of his younger sons, Gervas Nevile, and Dionyse Nevile, whose heirs the Nevils hold it at this day (1790). (Source: Robert Thoroton, 'Parishes: Thorney', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 1, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham, 1790), pp. 382-384. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thoroton-notts/vol1/pp382-384 ) (See pedigree of "Nevile of Thorney in John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, Volume 2, London, 1835,