Where did the surname "Newman" originate?

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Where did the surname "Newman" originate?

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This notable surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is nickname for a newcomer to a place. The derivation is from the Olde English pre
7th Century "neowe" (Middle English "newe"), new, with "mann", man. The surname first appears on record in the latter part of the 12th
Century (see below). One Godwin Nieweman was entered in the 1169 Pipe Rolls of Oxfordshire, and an Ailwin le Newman was noted in the
Pipe Rolls of Essex, dated 1195. Further early examples include: William the Niweman (Oxfordshire, 1227); Robert Niweman
(Cambridgeshire, 1273), and Robert le Nyman (Sussex, 1296). Thomas Newman, aged 15 yrs., who embarked from London on the ship
"Plaine Joan" bound for Virginia in May 1635, was among the earliest recorded bearers of the name to settle in America.

John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890), who was formally created cardinal of St. George in Velabro in 1879, matriculated from Trinity
College, Oxford, in 1816, where he gained a scholarship (1818) and a B.A. (1820). A member of the Oxford Movement, he resigned his
Anglican living, and was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. A Coat of Arms granted to the Newman family of Mamhead,
Devonshire, is a black shield with three silver lions rampant, langued red, the Crest being a silver lion rampant. The Motto "Ubi amor ibi
fides", translates as "Where there is love there is faith". The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of
Stangrim Noueman, which was dated
1166, in the "Pipe Rolls of Norfolk", during the reign of
King Henry 111, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189.