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« on: Sunday 07 September 14 21:58 BST (UK) »
Hi Craclyn
Hope I can help. William Newton was also my 4th great grandfather. When I started my family tree I was lucky that my father had been named Newton Skipsey Fellows. Not a christian name in site, all his names came from family surnames.
I haven't done any research for some time now and this will set me off again. Going back from William and Elizabeth his father was called Lancelot and he was married to Sarah ? (sorry don't know her maiden name).
As a child in the early sixties I remember visiting relatives in a country cottage in the small village of Edlingham west of Alnwick. Perhaps this was one of Williams descendants.
One of Williams granddaughters (Betsy) married James Bell Skipsey, my dads middle name. The Skipseys are another storey noteably Joseph Skipsey and his father Cuthbert.
I hope this is of interest and I will re-start my research and see what else I can turn up.
If we can share family details let me know.