I have used a variety of information sources for this project, which I will outline as best I can below.

• My father's type-written version of the family tree which I have in my possession. He credits his information on the early part of the tree (from Robert Newman d. 1402 to Frances Holles Newman 1671-1714) to a distant cousin Rev Grosvenor Bartelot F.S.A. Bartelot wrote a book called "The History of Fifehead Magdalen Church and Manor" though I have not yet been able to discover a copy of it. My father credits the latter part of his tree (from Francis Holles Newman onwards) to Somerset Archeological & Natural History Proceedings for the year 1890 which may well be the same Proceedings of Somerset Archeological Society reference that appears below.
• Latterly, I have rediscovered a number of papers that my father collected which contain lots of information which meant little to me at the time of his death, but which has provided me with a lot of useful leads. Amongst these is a hand-drawn pedigree which I have included in these pages, and several letters and other documents which I have either transcribed or scanned and incorporated in what I hope are appropriate (and discoverable) places.
• Information supplied to me by Somerset Records Office has come from from:
  1. Photocopy of Burke's Commoners, ii, pp 111-113, covering the "Newmans of Thornbury Park" who derive from the same ancestry as myself;
  2. Photocopy of Pedigree of Newman Proceedings of Somerset Archeological Society Vol XXXIX pp 156-159 (according to Somerset Records Office; Raymond Mercier found it to be Vol XXXVI); and
  3. Photocopy of John Hutchin's History of Dorset (Third Edition 1870) pages 57 and 58 describing Fifehead Magdalen and including a Pedigree of Newman. [In my notes about Robert Newman of Fifehead Magdalen (d. 1556) I record that the three above sources contradict one another in relation to his wife and children, and it is John Hutchins History of Dorset which comes closest to the information that was passed to me by my father.]
  4. Yeovil census records for 1851, 1861, 1881 and 1891.
• I have received massive amounts of information from people (mostly distant relatives) who have found this website and who have contacted me as a result. These have included Jerry Gandolfo in New Orleans USA, John and David Newman in Devon UK, Clifford Ranson in Cheshire, Raymond Mercier of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK, Scott Nourse of Austin, Texas, Geoffrey Newman of Ontario in Canada, Helen Proctor of the UK, Campbell Newman of Queensland, Australia and most recently Jonathan Newman-Rogers. All have contributed valuable information and leads to other people, including cousins in New Zealand with whom I am now also in frequent contact. In addition, I have to thank my cousins Ian Caldwell in Surrey, UK, and Oliver Suffield in the West Midlands, UK, and Ray Farnsworth in Northumberland, for providing me with huge amounts of useful information.
• Research work has been undertaken for me by Di Clements, Jennifer Day, and Susan Moore, all professional researchers based in Somerset. Amongst the sources that Di has used in researching some of the Newman estates for me is Collingson's "History of Somerset"published in 1791. My father also quotes from Volume II of this work, but I have not yet seen it for myself.
• A large amount of information about the Newman family may be available through the Newman Name Society with whose permission I have copied a fascinating letter from Wayne Dexter Newman that was published in the April 1998 issue of The Newman Chronicle.