One Newman, King, and McCloskey Family

By James B. Newman, Katherine K. Newman and David A. Newman

Biographical information and descent lists for the forebears, parents and siblings of Bernard Joseph Newman (born 1877 at Hoosick Falls NY; died 1941 at Germantown PA). Includes families of John Newman (born about 1823 in Ireland; died 1891 in Hoosick Falls NY); Richard Newman (born 1848 near Trim, Ireland; died 1920 in Hopedale MA); Catherine King (born about 1829 near Trim, Ireland; died 1906 at Hoosick Falls NY); Elizabeth McCloskey (born 1851 in Ulster County, Ireland; died 1924 in West Newton MA); Bernard McCloskey (born 1825 in Leeke, Ireland; died 1889 in Paisley, Scotland).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781008943421

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One Newman, King, and McCloskey Family

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James B. Newman

Katherine K. Newman

David A. Newman

Copyright © 2021 by James B. Newman, Katherine K. Newman, and David Allen Newman

Permission is granted to reproduce this material for noncommercial purposes and with appropriate credit given.

Biographical information and descent lists for the forebears, parents and siblings of Bernard Joseph Newman (born 1877 at Hoosick Falls NY; died 1941 at Germantown PA). Includes families of John Newman (born about 1823 in Ireland; died 1891 in Hoosick Falls NY); Richard Newman (born 1848 near Trim, Ireland; died 1920 in Hopedale MA); Catherine King (born about 1829 near Trim, Ireland; died 1906 at Hoosick Falls NY); Elizabeth McCloskey (born 1851 in Ulster County, Ireland; died 1924 in West Newton MA); Bernard McCloskey (born 1825 in Leeke, Ireland; died 1889 in Paisley, Scotland).

Front cover illustration: John³ and Catherinek2 Newman

Back cover illustration: BernardM2 McCloskey

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-008-94342-1

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-6671-2145-1

For more information contact:

James Newman

3306 Nutmeg Court

Rockingham, VA 22801

Email: [e-mail]

David Newman

750 S Dogwood Drive

Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Email: [e-mail]

Interior formatting by Janell E. Robisch, Speculations Editing (speculationsediting.com), [e-mail]

I have been working on the family history for many years in varying degrees of intensity. I am hoping to write up what information I have and to circulate it sometime this year. The problem is that I never seem to get it into just the right shape, and that there are so many unanswered questions.

William⁶ Bill K. Newman to Jean Bryant

November 6, 1979

William K. Newman

Table of Contents

Other Books about the Forebears of the Authors

Preface

Chapter 1 The Newman Family

1.1 Newman Forebears

1.2 John³ Newman

1.3 The Children of John³ Newman and CatherineC4 King

1.4 Richard⁴ Newman

1.5 The Death of John⁵ Edward Newman

1.6 The Children of Richard⁴ Newman and ElizabethM3 McCloskey

1.7 William⁶ K. Newman’s Account of the Children of Richard⁴ Newman and ElizabethM3 McCloskey

John⁵ Edward Newman

Bernard⁵ Joseph Newman

Thomas⁵ Sylvester Newman

William⁵ Campbell Newman

Richard⁵ King Newman

Katherine⁵ McCloskey Newman

Agnes⁵ Newman

Henry⁵ George Newman

1.8 The Newman Estate

1.9 Newman Family Descent Charts

1.10 Newman Family Biographies

1.11 Other Newman Photographs

Chapter 2

The King Family

2.1 King Forebears and CatherineK2 King

2.2 Catherine King’s Siblings and their Descendants

2.3 King Family Descent Charts

2.4 King Family Biographies

2.5 King Photographs

Chapter 3 The McCloskey Family

3.1 McCloskey and Campbell Forebears

3.2 The Children of BernardM2 McCloskey and CatherineC4 Campbell

3.3 ElizabethM3 McCloskey

3.4 Elizabeth McCloskey’s Historical Sketch

3.5 Elizabeth McCloskey’s Book of Poems and Clippings

3.6 Elizabeth McCloskey’s Second Book of Poems and Clippings

3.7 McCloskey and Campbell Charts

3.8 Campbell Family Biographies

3.9 McCloskey Family Biographies

Other Books about the Forebears of the Authors

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William Kincaid Newman: Autobiography, edited by James B. Newman and Katherine K. Newman. Lulu.com, 2005.

A Student At Princeton, 1927-1931: The Letters of William Kincaid Newman, edited by Katherine K. Newman and James B. Newman. Lulu.com, 2012.

Chapman, Parker and Wallace: The History of a Family, by Katherine K. Newman and James B. Newman. Lulu.com, 2011.

The History of a Kincaid Family, by James B. Newman and Katherine K. Newman. Lulu.com, 2010.

One Allen, Selleck, and Pollock Family, Volume I: History, by Katherine K. Newman and James B. Newman. Lulu.com, 2017.

One Allen, Selleck, and Pollock Family, Volume II: Correspondence and Records, 1808–1910, edited by Katherine K. Newman and James B. Newman. Lulu.com, 2017.

One Allen, Selleck, and Pollock Family, Volume III: Correspondence and Records, 1911–1937, edited by Katherine K. Newman and James B. Newman. Lulu.com, 2017.

One Allen, Selleck, and Pollock Family, Volume IV: Correspondence and Records, 1938–1972, edited by Katherine K. Newman and James B. Newman. Lulu.com, 2017.

One Allen, Selleck, and Pollock Family, Volume V: The Lucia Rebecka Brown Letters, edited by Katherine K. Newman and James B. Newman. Lulu.com, 2017.

Preface

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The descendants of the Newman, King, and McCloskey family have been fortunate in the abundance of information about our forebears that came down in the family. In fact, at the death of William⁶ K. Newman (Bill) in 1998 there were 47 boxes of papers about these families and other forebears. Many families described in this book were large, with many siblings and descendants. Once again we have been fortunate that so many descendants have taken an interest in family history and have used tools, old and new, to expand the story. The frequently emerging information kept Bill occupied intermittently for 70 years and resulted in several written, but partial, versions. The purpose of this book is to compile the information collected from Bill Newman and other sources with descent information available on Ancestry.com.

The Newman, King, and McCloskey families that form the subject of this book are:

The family of John³ Newman (born about 1823 in Ireland; died 1891 in Hoosick Falls, NY).

The family of John’s son Richard⁴ Newman (born 1848 near Trim, County Meath, Ireland; died 1920 in Hopedale, MA).

The family of John Newman’s wife, CatherineK2 King (born about 1829 near Trim, County Meath, Ireland; died 1906 at Hoosick Falls NY).

The family of Richard Newman’s wife, ElizabethM3 McCloskey (born about 1851 in Ulster, Ireland; died 1924 in West Newton, MA).

The family of Elizabeth McCloskey’s father, BernardM2 McCloskey (born 1825 in Leeke, Ireland; died 1889 in Paisley, Scotland)

This book organizes the information about known family members, how they are related, and the basic statistics about them. Our information was collected from many sources; family letters and documents, birth and census records, family oral histories, and Ancestry.com. Because this effort has spanned three generations, several people, and more than 90 years, the actual sources of many items can no longer be identified. With so many interested relatives and the emergence of new sources over the decades, we have found certain inconsistencies; we are not attempting to resolve them. When we know sources, we have indicated them, but so much of the information has been passed back and forth among the relatives during repeated compilations that all traceability has been lost.

The book is divided into chapters: the Newmans; the Kings; and the McCloskeys, including the Campbells. The Newmans and Kings came from central Ireland, and are thought to be descended from English settlers who came as soldiers during the Oliver Cromwell era or later as civil servants. The Campbells and McCloskeys came from the same district of northern Ireland; family tradition says they came from Scotland about six generations before the generation in this book, and members moved back and forth to Scotland at times.

The Kings, Campbells and McCloskeys are the families of the wives who married into the Newman line, so we have provided less information for ancestry. Other than names, we have not attempted to obtain the ancestry of spouses who married into these families, except those in our direct line. All lines have many descendants, and the reader is directed to Ancestry.com for more information.

Each chapter contains:

Summary

Quotes from letters and other sources in chronological order.

Descent charts, divided into smaller family groups. These show only the names of family members, their spouses, and their immediate descendants. Descendants born after about 1920 are not shown.

Biographical statistics and information about many of the people in the descent charts. To the extent that we know it, biographical information includes birth and death dates and locations, names of spouses and their marriage dates, and names of the person’s parents. Sometimes other information is included, such as occupation and date of emigration. The names, and birth order if known, of their children are listed under the father’s entry. If we have information about a child, the biography of the child is listed separately.

Photographs

These families preserved photographs for many generations. This book contains a selection of these for our immediate line and a sample of the closest cousins who are clearly identified, through the fifth Newman generation. We did not attempt to collect photographs from other family descendants, and usually omitted snapshots. The captions list the people in the photo from left to right. Dates and locations are shown if we know them.

Privacy

To protect the privacy of the living, our history does not include those born after about 1920. We have much more recent information which we will share privately with relatives who agree to control the information. However, Ancestry.com has most of the information already for subsequent generations, and the reader is directed to Ancestry for further research.

Notes about the Transcriptions

Despite our best efforts, errors still exist, some obvious, others not. Unfortunately, the source of the error will never be clear. The proofreader’s lapse? The transcriber’s? A subsequent transcriber’s? The original writer or record-keeper’s? Wishful thinking? The gravestone carver’s? We would be delighted if the reader can recommend corrections or clarifications!

We used some editorial symbols:

[-] is used in the text to indicate an undecipherable word. [--] indicates multiple undecipherable words.

In the descent and biography sections, square brackets direct the reader to a separate family member or chart.

[?] means we are not certain about the previous word.

Bracketed, italic items in the text are editors’ notes that either summarize material that was not typed, or provide explanations.

* means the person marked is thought to have descendants who are not mentioned in this book.

@ - when used with photograph dates indicates that the exact date is unknown and the date is our best estimate.

Superscripts

A superscript is used to denote the generation of a person, calculated from the earliest known ancestor of that family. The Newman line is a single digit, starting with John¹ Newman, whose son is Mathew² Newman. Kings begin with RichardK1 King; McCloskeys with JohnM1 McCloskey, and Campbells with GeorgeC1 Campbell. When a woman marries into another line, we retain the superscript of her original family, but her children take the superscript form of the father’s family.

In the summaries and source quotations, the generation superscript is used where it is needed for clarity. In the descent charts and biographies, it is used for all mentions of each person.

In the biographies, and sometimes in the text, a person’s name is followed by their line of descent. Thus, William⁶ Kincaid Newman is shown as (Bernard⁵, Richard⁴, John³, Mathew², John¹).

Derogatory Comments in the Source Materials

A few of the letters quoted in this book include derogatory comments about particular races. We are tempted to omit these offensive parts, but have included them in order to portray accurately the attitudes of the times.

Other Resources

The genealogical data in this book is electronically available on Ancestry.com.

Acknowledgments

We have been aided and inspired by Mary Wack and her extensive research, publications, and documentation about the McCloskeys and the Campbells.

James⁷ Jim B. Newman,

son of William⁶ K. Newman

Katherine⁷ Kit K. Newman,

daughter of William⁶ K. Newman

David⁸ A. Newman,

son of James⁷ B. Newman

August, 2021

Chapter 1

The Newman Family

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1.1 Newman Forebears

John¹ Newman, a tailor, probably lived in the Navan or Trim area of County Meath, Ireland. He had 3 or 4 sons. After his son Mathew died, John raised Mathew’s son John.

Mathew² Newman, son of John and also a tailor, was said to live in the Navan or Trim area. He married Rose Shields and had two sons. When the older, John³, was three years old, in about 1826, Mathew froze to death. His widow remarried and took the younger son, Patrick, to Dublin. The older, John, was raised by Mathew’s father, John¹.

Sources

Undated, prior to February 1, 1920, when Richard⁴ Newman, son of John³ Newman the immigrant died. This is a sheet of typed questions with answers apparently given by Richard Newman with regard to his parents and forebears. The questions seem to have been written by one of Richard Newman’s children, maybe Bernard, as it came down in his branch. Only some of the questions are answered. Did he dictate the answers for someone else to record? Following are all the questions and answers; they seem to reflect what Richard Newman did and didn’t know about his forebears. Questions and answers:

Where was your father born? [in pencil] Trim County Meath Ireland as far as I know

When was he born?

When did he die? [in pencil] May 30th 1891

If he had any brothers or sisters what were their names, were they older or younger than Grandfather, did they marry and have children? [in pencil] one brother younger who died years ago. unmarried

What was your father’s father’s name? [in pencil] Mathew Newman

Where was he born and when?

Where did he die and when?

What was the maiden name of your father’s mother? [in pencil] Rose Shields

Where and when was she born?

Where and when did she die?

Where was your mother, Katherine King Newman, born?

When was she born?

Did she have brothers and sisters? What were their names? Were they older or younger than Grandmother? Did they come to America? Did they marry and have children?

What was your mother’s father’s name? [in pencil] Richard King

Where was he born and when?

Where did he die and when?

What was the maiden name of your mother’s mother? [in pencil] Mary Lee

Where was she born and when?

Where did she die and when?

Have we any relatives in Ireland today?

If we have any, what are their names?

Where do they live?

Have we any relatives in this country in addition to your nephews and nieces and their children?

We are told that Grandfather Newman’s [John¹] grandfather came to Ireland from London about 1800 as a Customs Inspector. Is this true? Did any of our other ancestors come from anywhere except Ireland?

Undated, about 1930. Letter from Ann⁴ Newman [(@1858-1935; daughter of John³ Newman (1823 to 1891)] to William⁶ K. Newman. [Probably about 1930, the time when he wrote to distant relatives asking for information about their forebears. William K. Newman’s letter to Jean Bryant of November 6, 1979, refers to receiving this letter in the 1920s.] Excerpts relating to John Newman’s forebears:

Dear William,

It is some time since I received your letter, but as you were not going away for some time, I postponed answering it. I don’t think my information will be of much account. I have often been sorry that I did not ask my father and mother more questions about the land of their birth. As far back as I have heard, the Newmans were Tailors and as the name cannot be found in the Irish History, they took it for granted they descended from the English.

The first I ever heard of was John, he had three or four sons, one of them being named Mathew, who was my fathers, father. He died when my father was three years old and a brother one year old. Mathew was head of the tailor shop, so his wife gave up the shop and went into Dublin taking the baby with her and leaving my father with his grandfather who raised him. His mother married again and not having any more children, they educated her son, who lived to be a man but never married. So you see, my father was the only one except cousins. I do not know anything about them. My father’s mother lived for years in Dublin and I suppose she died there. Her maiden name was Rose Shields.

Undated. The History of Catherine and John Newman. Handwritten apparently by Ann⁴ Newman, daughter of John³ and CatherineK2 Newman. Later typed by William K. Newman. Section relating to Newman forebears:

The History of John and Catherine Newman, from Aunt Ann’s Scrapbook [from Aunt Ann’s Scrapbook was added by William K. Newman]. Were married in Ireland. New Town Trim. She was 18 yrs & 6 Mo when her oldest son was born & my Father was 23 years old his father was frozen to death, his Mother married the second time a man named Chute she gave my Father to his grandfather taking her other son with her she went with her husband to Dublin she never called on her son John although when he was 17 he called on her, he [Chute, apparently] educated her son he became a man but was drowned.

November 6, 1961, from William K. Newman to PatK4 Kay. Noted that John Newman the immigrant was born in 1823. This would have been figured from John’s 1891 obituary that stated his age as 67.

October 12, 1964. A note by William K. Newman says that in a letter of this date Pat Kay said that Marcie Regan said that the Newmans came from Navan. [Navan is about 12 km from Trim.]

Spring 1966, Kit Newman’s penciled notes on a William K. Newman letter of October 24, 1965, to Betty⁶ Morey. Included that John Newman the immigrant was born Protestant but brought up Catholic. [The source of this information has disappeared.]

August 27-31, 1982. William K. Newman visited Ireland, including Trim. Didn’t find anyone who knew as much about Newmans as he did. Assumed most Newmans around Trim were somewhat related. At Meath County Library in Navan he consulted Griffith’s Valuation, published 1854; found a few Newmans but of uncertain relation; also found a few King references. Visited cemetery of the Black Church; found a few Newman gravestones; these were also recorded in Records of Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. VII, #1. He also visited the Parish of Dunderry and Kilbride’s; a priest showed him the baptismal records of the three children of John Newman and Catherine King who were born in Ireland and several records of Newmans not known to be related. William K. Newman also visited the National Library and looked in a number of reference books.

Undated, written and typed by William K. Newman for a draft of family history.

John Newman’s father was Mathew Newman, a tailor, and his mother Rose Shields. His father died with he was three years old. His mother took his young brother, Patrick, and went to Dublin where she remarried. Patrick was educated, but died a young man without marrying. John was brought up by his grandfather, John Newman, also a tailor, and his grandfather’s second wife. The Newmans were Protestants, but she was a Catholic and brought him up as a Catholic.

The question has been raised as to whether we are related to John Henry Newman, the cardinal. His family was from Cambridgeshire, they were tailors, and several family names are the same. However, it seems likely that, if there were a relationship, it would have been known to the family in view of his considerable prominence. One of our cousins read a book about him in which it is stated that while in Dublin he went to an historic town nearby to visit an elderly relative there who was a tailor. I have never located the passage.

Undated note by Jim Newman quotes an undated letter from Marcie Regan: the Newmans came from Kilbride in Dunderry Parish near Navan (a town of about 4,000 population).

1.2 John³ Newman

John³ Newman, son of Mathew² Newman and Rose Shields, was born in Navan, County Meath, Ireland, in 1823 or 1824. His father dying when John was three, John was brought up by his grandfather John¹ Newman, a tailor.

John³ married CatherineK2 King. They had three children before immigrating in 1851 or 1852 to Hoosick Falls, New York, where they had three more children. John died in 1891.

The children of John Newman and Catherine King were Thomas, Richard, Roseanna, Mary, Anna (Ann), and Sylvester.

John³ Newman

(about 1823 - 1891)

Sources

Undated. Penciled notes in the back of Bernard⁵ J. Newman’s address book indicated the following:

John Newman born and reared in Nairn [This is a misreading of Navan. Nairn is on the west coast of Ireland.].

Catherine King Newman born and reared in Trim (just outside of Dublin).

Name of the brother of John Newman (1823-1891): Patrick.

John Newman and Catherine King Newman came to U.S. on sailing vessel called Robert Kelley in 1851 or 1852. Took 7 weeks and 3 days crossing.

Father [Richard Newman] was born on or about May 25, 1849. [Richard’s baptismal record says January 29, 1848.]

April 20, 1868. John Newman purchased land in Hoosick Falls from Richard and Susanah Fisk. According to notes taken by William K. Newman at the Rensselaer County Court House July 28, 1983: John Newman from Richard and Susanah Fisk, 20 Apr. 1868, Bk. 140 p. 15. Land in the town of Hoosick on River St. near west line of village of Hoosick Falls $425.

October 13, 1868. John Newman became a US citizen. See October 23, 1920, below.

August 16, 1890. John Newman made a will. He left all his property to his wife Catharine. Signed by his X mark. Recorded June 30, 1891. William K. Newman located this on his visit to the Rensselaer County Court House July 28, 1983.

May 30, 1891. John Newman died, according to an unidentified newspaper.

June 1 or later, 1891. Death notice for John Newman in an unidentified newspaper.

During the week we have lost two more old and respected citizens....John Newman, aged 67 years, who died May 30, and whose funeral also took place from the Immaculate conception church, Monday morning.

June 13, 1891. The Clerk to Surrogate’s Court summoned John Newman’s widow and children to appear before the Surrogate of the County of Rensselaer, City of Troy, to attend the Probate of the last will and testament of John Newman. Catharine Newman was executrix.

October 23, 1920, from Sylvester⁵ E. Scott, Counselor at Law, Hoosick Falls, N.Y., to ElizabethM3 M. Newman. [Sylvester was the son of the sister of Elizabeth’s husband Richard.] Letter:

Dear Aunt Lizzie: In reply to your letter of October 19th, I have obtained a statement signed by Hans Dahl, as clerk of the County of Rensselaer, and under the seal of said County, certifying that John Newman was naturalized on the 13th day of October, 1868. This paper states that it is issued in place of a duplicate certificate of naturalization, as the issuance of such certificate is prohibitive by law within thirty days next preceding a general election. With this certificate under the seal of the Court and the affidavit forwarded to you a few days ago, you should be permitted to vote, if the officials are not too exacting.

The folks at home are in about the same condition. Wishing you success in your efforts to vote, I am, Sincerely yours, Vester

Undated, about 1930. Letter from Ann⁴ Newman [daughter of John³ Newman] to William⁶ Kincaid Newman. [Probably about 1930, the time when he wrote to distant relatives asking for information about their forebears. William K. Newman’s letter to Jean⁶ Scott Bryant of November 6, 1979, refers to receiving this letter in the 1920s.] Excerpts relating to John Newman and Newmans:

Dear William, It is some time since I received your letter, but as you were not going away for some time, I postponed answering it. I don’t think my information will be of much account. I have often been sorry that I did not ask my father and mother more questions about the land of their birth. As far back as I have heard, the Newmans were Tailors and as the name cannot be found in the Irish History, they took it for granted they descended from the English.

The first I ever heard of was John, he had three or four sons, one of them being named Mathew, who was my fathers, father. He died when my father was three years old and a brother one year old. Mathew was head of the tailor shop, so his wife gave up the shop and went into Dublin taking the baby with her and leaving my father with his grandfather who raised him. His mother married again and not having any more children, they educated her son, who lived to be a man but never married. So you see, my father was the only one except cousins. I do not know anything about them. My father’s mother lived for years in Dublin and I suppose she died there. Her maiden name was Rose Shields.

My father and mother came to this country 75 years ago coming on an old sailing vessel with three children, Tom, Dick and Roseanna. They were seven weeks and three days on water, landed in New York, came to Troy and then to Hoosick Falls. Coming from Troy on an old Stage Coach drawn by four horses and arrived here on the fourth or fifth of July. There was no railroad to Hoosick Falls and only about two hundred inhabitants at the time. What they were thinking of, I don’t know, that was before the big Walter A Wood work started here. Well I think I have told you all I know, and if there is any of our relatives alive, it must be around New Town Trim or Dublin (County Meath, as I said before and if Tom King [probably ThomasK³ King, son of RichardK2 George King, son of RichardK1 King and Mary Lee] is alive, he must be about seventy, but he had several sons. Aunt Ann

P.S. I guess I have told some of the things over twice. I am sending this in pencil, I see your letter is in type, so I am going to let you type this if you do not put it in the stove when you see it. P.P.S. My mother was the last member of her family to die. She lived 4 1/2 years longer than any of her brothers or sisters. She was 77 when she died on June 26, 1906.

Undated. The History of Catherine and John Newman. Handwritten apparently by Ann⁴ Newman, daughter of John and Catherine Newman. Later typed by William K. Newman. Section relating to the Newmans:

The History of John and Catherine Newman, from Aunt Ann’s Scrapbook [from Aunt Ann’s Scrapbook was