Seeking info on Samuel NEWMAN of Blakeney/Awre (General)

by foacmow , Thursday, August 07, 2014, 10:24 (3762 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

I was aware that Samuel was a railway man and it did occur to me that this may be the reason for his disappearance.

I think I need to update my post as I have a fair bit of information about the generation AFTER Samuel and Louisa's family. It's just the NEWMAN branch that is proving tricky. Mainly because it seems to be obligatory for anyone in Gloucestershire named David NEWMAN to marry someone called Hannah!

What is interesting is the shopkeeper aspect. Looking at their address and working on the, possibly flawed, logic that shops tend to remain as shops for long periods I wonder if shop currently called "Blakeney News, food and wine" just opposite The Kings Head.

I'm from Cardiff (as are my parents and grandparents) but now live in Gloucester so I kind of feel I've come home.

I've also traced my father's side of the family to the other side of the Severn. Some of them appear to have lived in Arlingham so it's fun to think that the families may have known one another given the old river crossing point was between Arlingham and Newnham.