This is just a "beginning" for my "Newsom Family Page". Please contact me if you find you are a Newsom cousin or if you wish to share/add additional Newsom information here!
Thanks to Patsy West (see e-mail link below), I now have further information on my Newsom ancestors as provided to me by Patsy and her work through B.C. Holtzclaw, Ph.D., "The Newsom Family and Related Families of Surry, Isle of Wight, Southampton & Sussex Counties, Va.", "Families: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. IV (Baltimore: GPC, Inc.), 1981.
I am a descendant of George Newsom as follows:
1 George Newsom b. abt 1527 d. abt 1585
...+Catherine Colvile b. abt 1531 d 1559-1625
......2 Robert Newsom b. 1553 d. 1624
.........+Elizabeth Sherbourne b abt 1553 d. 1587-1648
.........3 William Newsom b. abt. 1584
.........+ no info. on wife (at this time)
............4 William (I) Newsom b: Abt 1614 d: in VA (arrived VA by 1636, married 4 times)
...............+Elizabeth Wilsonn or Gertrude Unknown (3rd or 4th wife of Wm. Newsom)
..................5 William (II) Newsom b: 1648 in Virginia d: 1691 in Virginia
....................+Anne (Sheppard) Hart b: Abt 1645 in VA m: 1669 in VA d: 1711 in VA
........................6 Thomas Newsom b: 1685-1686 in Virginia d: 1745-1746 in Virginia
...........................+Elizabeth (Crafford) Crawford b: 1685 in VA d: 1755 in VA
..............................7 Sampson Newsom b: 1710-1715 in Virginia d: 1779 in Virginia
.................................+Mary Unknown (possibly Braswell?)
.....................................8 William Newsom b: Abt 1730 in VA d: Aft 1803 in TN
........................................+Elizabeth (probably Knight) b: Abt 1740, Surry Co., VA
............................................9 Eldridge Newsom b: August 7, 1769 in Surry Co., VA d: September 18, 1826 in Madison Co., TN
..............................................+Mary "Polly" Harwood m: December 12, 1797, Sussex Co., VA
..................................................10 Nancy Newsom b: Bef 1815 d: Abt 1867
.....................................................+Jeremiah Brown m: December 1, 1825 in Madison Co., TN? (Marriage record found in Jackson Gazette, Dec. 3, 1825)
.....................................................*2nd Husband of Nancy Newsom:
.....................................................+William B. May b: Bef 1810 m: March 3, 1829 in Madison Co., TN d: Abt 1839 in Madison Co., Tenn.
..........................................................11 Newett N. MAY
b. between 1829-1832 in Madison Co., TN; d. after 1868 m: Sarah "Sallie" Lanier November 3, 1858 in Madison Co., TN
(Newett N. and Sallie Lanier MAY were my 3rd great-grandparents - see my genealogy pages for additional information on their/our May and Lanier ancestors...
......................................................*3rd Husband of Nancy Newsom:
......................................................+William Brookshire b: abt. 1825, N.C. m: December 30, 1841 in Madison Co., TN
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