* I have estimated the birth dates for Robert, his predecessors and his successors based on their being at least 20 years old before they had children. Even with such a short generation time, it is difficult to fit them all in. It is therefore questionable how accurate the information is about the early Newmans that has been passed down to me.

Notes: In the 15th Century, St Austyn's Abbey, Bristol owned Fifehead Manor. Robert's son Robert took out a lease on the manorial estate which was later purchased by Col Richard Newman. Fifehead was the Newman home for about 200 years until the death of Frances Newman in 1775. [See separate page on Abbey Leases.]

The Newman connection with Fifehead goes back even further, to John Newman, brother of Robert Newman of St Thomas's Salisbury who was Rector of Fifehead from 1405 to 1408.