65536.WilliamNewsom, born Abt. 1445; died Unknown. He married 65537. Unknown Unknown.
65537.Unknown, born Unknown; died Unknown.
Notes for William Newsom:
Probably the first resident of Newsham Hall in Lancashire England. This is near Newsham and 3 miles north of Preston and 6 miles south of Garstag on Hwy A6. Was sold in 1630 to a Thomas Wilson.
According to a Newsham researcher the name changed due to an Illterate priest signing death and marriage documents with the Newsome name
Prof Benjamin C Holtzclaw suggested that our ancestry is English and other evidence tends to support this. they were anglo Saxon and were in County Warwickshire as early as the 1000's. The "Domes Day Book" lists Newsomes in several places under previous spellings of the name.these names later became Newsholmes and Newsham with several other variations along the way. It is believed that many Newsom(e)s developed in Counties York and Lancaster in Northern England. Many of us accept the probability that we descend from The Newsoms of Newsom Hall in County Lancaster. William Newsom, the immigrant, is thought to be the grandson of Robert Newsom of Newsom Hall. The immigrant's father, William Newsom was the second son so his older brother, Richard, got the home place. William had three sons who moved to Ireland in the 1600's whenCromwell's religeous wars were in full swing. The William Neesom that sailed from Dublin and arrived in James City Virginia on the "George"in 1635/36 and was granted land as William Newsom is believed to be one of those three sons
Notes for William Newsom:
William Newsom (Newsham) was one of the early residents of Newsham Hall in Lancashire, England, and before 1500, Lord of the Manor. "Newsham" was pronounced by the English in those days as we today pronounce "Newsome." The Hall stood near the present day hamlet of Newsham some three miles north of Preston, or some six miles south of present day Garstang, just off of what is now the A6 Highway. The Newsom (or Newsham) family lived in the old manor for the next seven generations.
The origins of the Newsom family in Lancashire is somewhat obscure, but the following excerpt from 'Goosnargh: Past and Present' by Richard Cookson, published in Lancashire, England, 1887, sheds some light on this early history:
'Of Newsham, (Henry) Fishwick (in his comprehensive "The History of the Parochial Chapelry of Goosnargh," 1871) writes, "Almost the only place of any interest in the little township of Newsham is Newsham Hall, which was for many generations the seat of the Newsoms, a once powerful and influential family in Lancashire and Yorkshire." The connection between the families of the two counties has not been proved, but it is probable that the Lancashire branch sprang from the Yorkshire family. At a very early period Nisandus de Neuson granted by charter certain lands in Newsham and York to the monks of Fountains Abbey, which grant was afterwards confirmed by his son, Robert de Neusum, whose son Ranulphus de Neusom was living A.D. 1234-1269. This Ranulphus had a son Robertus de Neusom, whose wife Agnus confirmed a grant to Fountains, made by Ranulphus de Neusom, her husband's father; and in 1331 an Adam de Neusom granted to Sir William Bowes, and to Henry son of Adam de Cleatham, all his land in Neusom (Co. York), with the reversion of the lands which Alan de Neuson held in Berford, and which Adam de Steddale held for in Barnard Castle.
A branch of the family resided at Newsham Hall in the 15th century, but it is not unlikely that they were here at a much earlier period. No doubt it was one of the family who is said to have, in 1527, taken a part in a dispute relative to the tithes of Newsham (see notes for John Newsom, b. 1520). For seven generations this property descended from father to son; the last of the family who owned it was Richard Newsom, who married Barbara daughter of Edmund Fleetwood, of Roshall (i.e. Rossall), esquire, and was living in 1632. A few years after this the estate was conveyed to Thomas Wilson, the eldest son of Thomas Wilson, of Wrightington, gent., and Mary his wife. Thomas Wilson the younger (of Tunley and Newsham Hall), died in or about the year 1660, when Newsham Hall passed to his son Thomas, who died intestate and without issue in 1702, when the property went to Henry Wilson, the grandson of John Wilson, of Bretherton. Henry Wilson was born in 1669, and married Catherine Bamber, and died in 1726, leaving issue, Thomas, John, and Ann. Thomas Wilson, who succeeded his father to Newsham Hall, died in 1759, leaving it to his grandson, Thomas Wilson, of Manchester (son of Henry Wilson, of Clifton, deceased), who in I782 sold it to John Bourne, of Stalmine Hall, in the County of Lancaster, esquire, who by will bequeathed it to his nephew, James Bourne, of Heathfield, who again devised it to his brother, John Bourne, of Stalmine Hall, whose son, James Thomas Bourne, captain in the 2nd Royal Lancashire Militia, is now its present owner.
The building as it now stands shows no evidence of antiquity, although there is nothing from which one can fix with any degree of certainty its exact or even proximate age. The present tenant is Mr. Thomas Jackson. A beautiful carved oak cupboard is still at Newsham Hall, bearing the inscription 1711, H.K.W. (doubtless Henry and Catherine Wilson). On a door of an oak-panelled pew in Woodplumpton Church belonging to Newsham Hall (St. Anne's), is cut in the solid wood the following: H.M.W., 1714. One letter is deficient, but the initials, no doubt, refer to Henry and Mary Wilson; and a slab near the altar rail records that there is buried Ann Taylor, wife of James Taylor, and daughter of Henry and Mary Wilson, late of Newsham Hall, gent., A.D. 1780, aged 33.'
Child of William Newsom is:
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John2 Newsom, born Abt. 1467 in Newsom Hall, Lancashire, England; died Abt. 1516 in Newsom Hall, Lancashire, England. He married ? Singleton Abt. 1490; born Abt. 1470 in Lancashire, England; died Unknown.
Notes for John Newsom:
It was during John Newsom's residence in Newsham Hall that Thomas, 1st Earl of Derby, built Greenhalgh Castle six miles to the north (1490). The castle was razed some 159 years later (1649) by the Parliamentary and anti-Catholic forces of Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War. John Newsom's great grandson Robert Newsom married Elizabeth Sherbourne of Greenhalgh Castle in about 1578 (see notes for Elizabeth Sherbourne)..
McCoy Reynolds, born 23 September 1916 in Pippapasses,
Ky., enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve at
Louisville, Ky., 23 January 1942. He was killed in action
on Guadalcanal 25 November 1942 after boldly exposing
himself to destroy a Japanese machine gun nest in fighting
to defend Henderson Field. Private Reynolds was
posthumously awarded the Silver Star for the conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity without regard for personal
safety.
