Tag Archives: Southwark

New additions to the website

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2We here at A Newman Family History are pushing snippets of our website daily, however did you know we are constantly updating the articles and photo gallery.
This week we added two new articles to the London and Southwark  and the Distaff catagories we hope to add more in good time.
We hope to report on these articles in our daily showcase section soon.

As well as website articles and new photos in the gallery we have customised our forums to look a lot nicer, we hope you like the design.
Thank you to all family members who have already signed up and introduced themselves. Hopefully we can become a centre-point for Newman family discussions.

Progress on the book has been good we have now entered editing/proofing stage and hopefully by the end of this month be able to start pushing for release.

Check out all the new additons to the site at http://www.newmanfamilyhistory.com/

This has been a short website update by Trevor the administrator of A Newman Family History.

The Tragic death of a Court Crier

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Todays new extract from the Newman family history website comes from the London and Southwark section

Hugh Newman, was Court Crier of the Rolls Court, but met his end at his own hands.

Hugh Newman (1778-1827) was the fourth son of John & Margaret Newman. He was six when the family moved to London. In 1805 he married a young widow, Ann Mathews, who bore him one son before her own early death. Hugh was employed as Porter and Court Keeper (Crier) of the Rolls Court in Chancery Lane, Westminster but lived with his infant son, George, in the same house as his brother-in-law, William Leedle, in Gibraltar Row, St. George’s Fields, Southwark.

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