[2] Historian Nicholas Vincent went so far as to describe the family's relationships as "a veritable labyrinth into which many a genealogical enquiry has vanished without trace".
[3] The landholder at Ashby is frequently known as "Alan Junior" in contemporary records to distinguish him from the forester.
[5] The Complete Peerage entry for the Neville family of Essex gives the landholder at Ashby as the son of the Chief Forester also,[6][a] as do the historians H. G. Richardson and G. O.
[5] The person of the same name who was holder of the forest pleas in Lincolnshire in 1169 and 1170 may have been this Alan de Neville.
[10] Young argues that the justice in charge of forest pleas in 1169 and 1170 and the man who died in 1190 were the same as the co-founder of Tupholme.