Richard Newman was in Cork City in 1651 and in 1662 was JP for the County of Cork.

Note: Above information on Richard Newman of Cork sent to me via Ian Caldwell 23 Jan 2003.

In the April 1998 Issue of The Newman Chronicle, Tony Newman writes: "Of Humphrey and Dorothy Newman of Wincanton's second son Richard who settled in county Cork, and of subsequent Irish generations, I have meagre details. 'Landed Gentry of Ireland' reports: "In 1686 he (the above Richard) passed patent for the castle property of Drumineene and several other lands in County Cork, and 4 messuages in the city of Cork.  Said lands be erected into a manor called the manor of Newbury." A detached fragment of a recent generation of this branch brings the original Fifehead line well into the present century with John Robert Bramston Newman of Cork, MP for Enfield 1918-1923 (see page 2439). Although I do not yet have the intervening generations, this late individual will be of the same line because both the earlier Cork Newmans and this later Newman are described as "Dromore House", and "of Newberry Manor", and they use the same arms."

Richard Hodgson of West Sussex, UK advised as follows (in Nov 2003): "I thought you might like to know that Richard French died in 1651, according to Burkes Landed Gentry re the family of French of Cuskinny, who claim him as their earliest recorded ancestor. They mention Sarah's marriage."