The Newman Family Crest

Rev. William Abiah Newman, D.D., curate of St Georges, Wolverhampton. Married 1848 Elizabeth, daughter of John Beet (died in 1844) of Rowley Hall, near Dudley as his second wife. They did not live at Rowley Hall but in Cape Town, South Africa until 1855 and then at Warfield Hall, Warfield, Co Bucks, but Elizabeth d.1855, without children. Margaret Beet widow and stepmother of Elizabeth was still at the Hall in 1851,for it was stipulated in John Beet’s will that she should be able to live at the Hall for her lifetime. The Rev William Abiah Newman died in 1864. His son by his first wife, Rev William Alexander Newman, inherited the Hall and the estate but again he and his wife Bertha did not live at the Hall but at Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset where he was Rector. He leased the Coal and ironstone rights on the estate to Messrs Wright and North of Wolverhampton in 1865 and 1868 along with the Hall and four cottages, (presumably those behind the Hall). Rowley Hall colliery opened in 1869

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Newman

Motto

Firmiter et fideliterSteadfastly and faithfully

Blazon

A Lion Rampant Resting Its Sinister Paw On An Escutcheon Charged With A Mullet Of Eight Points And Holding In The Dexter Paw An Anchor.

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