The newsome Surname
newsome Name Meaning and History
English (chiefly Yorkshire): habitational name from a place named
with the Old English phrase (æt ð?m) neowan
husum ‘(at the) new houses’. This and some of the variants
listed below are common as place names in northern England. In the
form Newsom, the surname is also established in Ireland, being the
name of a Quaker family in County Cork.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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