Newsom, George

Family/Spouse: Colvile, Catharine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Bispham is located on the Irish Sea coast of Lancashire, England, a few miles north of present day Blackpool.

Robert married Sherbourne, Elizabeth in 1578 in , Lancashire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Sherbourne, Richard and Bolde, Matilda) was born in 1553 in Mitton, Lancashire, England; died in in , Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richard Newsom was the last of the Newsoms to live in Newsham Hall. After at least seven generations in the family, the Hall was sold to a Thomas Wilson in about 1630. Richard died two years later.

Family/Spouse: Fleetwood, Barbara. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Singleton, Lucille about 1605 in Newsom Hall, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• OCCU: Tailor
• WILL: 1634; Proved

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Thomas Newsom, born 1586 in Newsom Hall, Lancashire, England; died 1634. He married Anne Hedges; born in Chalberry, Oxford, England.

Notes for Thomas Newsom:

Thomas Newsom was a London tailor. His 1634 will is "proved."

Family/Spouse: Hedges, Ann. Ann was born in in Chalberry, Oxford, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married Thomas Sharples 1610 in Lancashire, England; born in Lancashire, England.

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Married Henry Lundhop; born in Lancashire, England

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Married James Draper; born in Cockerhouse, Lancashire, England.

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Temple work for children done with Penelope Ramsey as mother to all.

William came to Virginia in 1635, is forefather of the Newsom in Virginia who later came to Wilkes County, Georgia. William was accompanied by his two brothers, Robert and Richard.
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VA 8/21/1635 on "George"
Signed boat's register as William Neesum
Farmer

Source:http://members.aol.com/PeggyLoos/Newsom1.htm

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William Newsom, Jr., planter, of James City, later Surry Co., Virginia, was the son of William Newsom, Sr. of Newsom Hall, Lancashire, England. He is likely the "William Neesum" who came to Virginia aboard the "George" in 1635 (cf. Hotten's Emigrants p. 125) and (Passenger Lists, Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London, England WC2A 1LR).

In 1636 he was granted 550 acres of land in the "County of James City toward Sunken Marsh for the transportation of 11 persons to Virginia" (Virginia Land Grants, Virginia Land Office, Grant Book 1, p. 338). This patent on the land was renewed Aug 26, 1643. Included among the "11 persons" William transported were three of his possibly four wives, Penelope Ramsey (the first), Sarah Fisher (the second) and Elizabeth Wilson (his third and then current wife). He probably married yet a fourth time to Gertrude ? (see main entry).

The records of William Newsom, Jr. are scant in the preserved documents of Surry County, Virginia. On September 6, 1653, a Henry Banister deeded to a William Batt land which had been left him by the last will of William Sheppard (we see here a relationship between the Newsoms and the Sheppards as soon as five years after the arrival of the Newsoms in 1635 - William's son William III married Anne Sheppard in 1669), and which was bought by William Newsom, Jr. in 1640 (Surry County, Virginia, D & W 1645-72, p. 30).

On January 22, 1658, William Batt sold this land and mentioned that it had been patented by William Newsom, Jr. in 1636 and was commonly called Rich Neck (ib., p. 127). This was only a part of the original patent, for William Newsom, Jr. still possessed the "Plantation in Rich Neck," which he left to his eldest son, William III (Surry County, Virginia, D & W, 1686-93, p. 226).

The last record of William Newsome, Jr. in Surry County appears November 1, 1657, when there is recorded a promissory note to John Flower from "William Newsome of Lower Chippoakes in James, Virginia, planter" (Surry County, Virginia, D & W 1645-72, p.111).

It is possible that William Newsom, Jr. had children other than William III and Alice. This is almost certain if he is identical with a William Newsom who was granted land in Lancaster County, Virginia after 1649 (Grant Book 2, p. 202, 203; Grant Book 5, p. 465; Grant Book 6, p. 264). A son of this William Newsom who was granted land in Lancaster County was probably Robert Newsom, whose will was dated December 20, 1693, and probated in Lancaster County July 10, 1695, and who left his property to his sons, William and Robert, and his daughter, Elizabeth. The son, William, died in Lancaster County in 1700 and left his land to his sons, William and Robert. His will is dated April 26, 1700, and probated October 10, 1700.

Another possible son of William Newsom, Jr. was Thomas Newsom (Nesham) who was granted land in James City County in 1696 (Grant Book 9, p. 51).

The generic source for much of the foregoing material is the work of B.C. Holtzclaw, Ph.D., University of Richmond, Virginia, the famous Newsom researcher of the first half of the twentieth century.

More About William Newsom, Jr.:

Emigration: August 21, 1635, on the "George" - signed ship's register as "William Neesum, farmer"

Family/Spouse: Ramsay, Penelope. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fisher, Sarah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Wilson, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born about 1645 in Surry, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Gertrude after 1636. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]