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.
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