In my previous post I had shared that perhaps there could be a connection between our family line and that of Sir Isaac, but more research needed to be done. Since that time, additional research has been carried out.

Some of the following detail is from the book "Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton" by Richard S. Westfall. This book draws from an article by CW Foster entitled "Sir Isaac Newton's Family" published in 1928. I've also obtained some of the following information from the Newton Tree Party website. Primarily however,...[read more]

The Newton family has so far been traced back to Bassingthorpe, to George Newton who was the son of Alice Newton (a widow in Bassingthorpe who died in 1724) and John Newton, we believe. But the connection with John Newton is still speculative and more research needs to be done.

In conducting this research, it gets confusing at times because often there are many people with the same name. Names (like John and Robert for example) were sometimes used repeatedly from generation to generation within family lines, making it difficult to keep identities...[read more]