putting it all together: The William and Hannah (Westover) Newman Clan

William and Hannah (Westover) Newman were both born in England. I do not know when they came over and if they were already married with they did come over. Most of the following events occurred in Brooklyn, Kings, New York. A few occurred on Long Island.

1^st generation:

William NEWMAN (b. abt 1803-d. 12 March 1858) married Hannah WESTOVER (24 Apr 1811-27 Jul 1887)

               

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Brooklyn Eagle
Thursday, July 28, 1887
Page: 3
Section: none

NEWMAN--On July 27, Mrs. Hannah Newman, aged 76.
     Funeral services at the residence of her son in law, Mr. John H. Miller, 685A Hancock st, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Friday, July 29th, at 2 P.M.

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2^nd generation:

>Children of William and Hannah (Westover) Newman:

1. Sarah Ann NEWMAN married John Henry MILLER
(9 Apr 1830-2 Jan 1923)      (11 May 1833-14 Jun 1901)

2. Mary Jane NEWMAN   married   David C. STEWART

(b. 17 Oct 1834-d. aft 1900 census)    (b. about 1833)

3. Frances E NEWMAN married 1st Charles D. LATIMER, married 2nd Edgar Skidmore

(b. 29 Feb 1840- 5 January 1917)

4. Thomas NEWMAN

(b. about 1843)
Might be the Thomas NEWMAN that enlisted in the Navy in 1859 at age 16

5. Catharine “Kate” B. NEWMAN married 1^st John J COOK  married 2^nd Robert LOUDEN

(28 Feb 1845-9 January 1900)                          (b. about 1842)                     (b. Jan 1840)

3^rd generation:

>Children of Sarah Ann Newman and John Henry Miller:

1. Caroline A MILLER married Thomas E CARMAN
(b. Apr 1854)                             (b. Sep 1850)

2. Mary Jane MILLER married Joshua Purdy JERVIS

(6 Jan 1856-24 Jan 1939)    (15 Aug 1851-3 Jan 1939)

3. Frances Elizabeth MILLER, never married

(12 Sep 1857-1 Dec 1936)

4. Emma L. MILLER married Ferdinand L. ALLEN

(b. Jun 1860)                          (b. 18 Jun 1852)

5. Charles Latimer MILLER married Mildred MINNERLY

(26 Apr 1866-7 Apr 1931)              (b. June 1865)

>Children of Mary Jane NEWMAN and David C. STEWART:

1. Esther A/Hester STEWART married William N MERWIN
(b. Aug 1859)                                      (b. Feb 1856)

2. Kate B. STEWART married William S SMITH

(b. Jan 1862)                             (b. Jan 1860)

>Child of Frances E NEWMAN and probably Charles D LATIMER:

1. Charles O LATIMER
(1 July 1866-1 Apr 1889)

>Child of Catharine/Kate B NEWMAN and John J or A COOK:

1. James W COOK
(b. about 1867)

>Children of Catharine/Kate B NEWMAN and Robert LOUDEN:

1. Robert William LOUDEN (I don’t know for sure that he is Kate’s--maybe Robert had a first wife--but he probably is)
(b. about 1873)

2. Edgar Bennett LOUDEN

(b. 22 Aug 1878)

4^th generation:

>Children of Caroline A MILLER and Thomas E CARMAN:

1. Elbert Henry CARMAN
(b. 22 Sep 1873)

2. Fred Willis CARMAN

(b. 22 Sep 1875)

3. William Edward CARMAN

(b. 2 Apr 1877)

4. Joshua J CARMAN

(b. July 1879)

5. Cornelius Powell CARMAN

(b. 13 Mar 1882)

6. Forrest Preston CARMAN

(b. 13 Mar 1896)

>Children of Mary Jane MILLER and Joshua Purdy JERVIS:
1. Grace Purdy JERVIS married William Wallace SMITH
(12 Apr 1879-1 Aug 1962)       (5 Apr 1886-17 Mar 1974)

2. Sarah Emma JERVIS married Reverend Arthur Cuthbert WRIGHT

(1 Jun 1881-26 Oct 1916)                              (b. 5 Oct 1878)

3. Scudder Carll JERVIS

(20 Sep 1883-6 Sep 1889) there’s a chance he was born on the 6^th and died on the 20^th

4. Charles Miller JERVIS  married  Carolie MEIGS

(14 Oct 1885-23 Jan 1961)    (5 Oct 1900-23 Sep 1986)

>Child of Charles Latimer MILLER and Mildred MINNERLY

1. John H MILLER married Helen Ellen BERTRAND
(b. May 1889)            (b. 1892-about 1919)

>Children of Esther A/Hester STEWART and William N MERWIN

1. Adelaide Newman MERWIN married Fred Woolhiser
(b. Oct 1878)                                         (b. Feb 1875)

2. Pauline B MERWIN married Herman M SNETLAGE

(b. Jul 1882 )                               (b. about 1873 )

3. William N MERWIN, Jr

(b. Oct 1884)

>Child of Kate B STEWART and William S SMITH

1. Hettie SMITH
(b Jan 1895)

2 and 3? Mary/Margaretta RANDOLPH (b. Feb 1884) and Jesse T RANDOLPH (b. May 1885) are also listed as the daughters of William S SMITH in the 1900 US Census and in the 1905 New York state census, but I can’t figure out if they are Kate’s from a previous marriage, or perhaps they are adopted?

5^th generation:

>The children of Grace Purdy JERVIS and William Wallace SMITH:

1. Scudder Jervis SMITH
(18 Dec 1912-5 Apr 2001)

2. Sara Westover SMITH married Carl Henry DANIELSON

(b. 4 Oct 1918-2008)

>Children of Charles Miller JERVIS, Sr and Carolie MEIGS

1. Joel Russ JERVIS
(5 Apr 1924-28 Oct 1997)

2. Charles Miller JERVIS, Jr

(b. 14 Oct 1932)

>Child of John H. MILLER and Helen

1. Charles M. MILLER
(b. 25 May 1915)

>Children of Pauline Beatrice MERWIN and Herman M SNETLAGE:

1. Bernard R SNETLAGE
(b. about 1907-1994)

2. Hester Louise SNETLAGE

(b. about 1909-1952)

3. Henry M SNETLAGE

(b. about 1914-1976)

4. Beatrice P SNETLAGE

(b. about Sep 1918-1963)    

cemetery plots leading to new discoveries on the Newman, Latimer, Cook, Stewart lines

A reminder of the clan:

William Newman b abt 1803 England d. 1858 New York
Hannah (Westover) Newman  b. 1811 England d. 1887 New York

children:
Sarah Ann (Newman) Miller b. 1830 Gravesend, Brooklyn, NY d. 1923 NY
Mary Jane (Newman) Stewart b. 1834 NY d. ???
Frances E (Newman) Latimer b. 1840 NY d. aft 1901
Thomas Newman b. abt 1843 d...after 1850
Catharine B (Newman) Cook b. 1845 d. aft 1888

So, I ordered the death certificate of Charles O. Latimer (my great-great grandmother's nephew) and was disappointed when it didn't list his father's name. However, it did list the cemetery he was buried in, Cypress Hills in Brooklyn. After a few missed tries at reaching the research department, I was able to make contact this morning.

So, Olga looks up Charles this morning and tells me he is in section 15 lot 47. I was sad to find out that they don't have info like the parent's names, but they can send me the age at death, date of death, cause of death, and the last residence. ($30 for the first 5 names, $5 for each name after that)

The others buried in this lot are:

John J. Cook (Charles's uncle, married to his Aunt Catharine B)
James W. Cook (Charles's cousin)
F E Louden (didn't know this name)
Kate B. Louden (I thought Kate B might be Catharine B, but didn't know if it was the same person)
Robert Louden (obviously related to the 2 Louden's above, but who is he)
Mary J. Stewart (Charles's aunt)
Frances Skidmore (Charles's mother's name is Frances...but Skidmore?)
Hester A. Merwin (Charles had a cousin Hester/Esther A. Stewart, so this might be her married name)
Hannah Newman (Charles's grandma, my 3rd great grandmother)


So, I spent some time on familysearch.org and ancestry.com today and tried to track down the Loudens, Frances Skidmore, Hester A Merwin, and Thomas Newman. I tried googling some of the names, but didn't have luck with that tactic.

So, what were some of my findings?

The Loudens:

One of my first discoveries was in the 1892 NY State Census:

Fannie Latimer    45

Robt Louden      50
Kate Louden      45
Robt Louden      18
Edgar Louden     13

The ages for Fannie and Kate are wrong, but close enough.

Then I found this birth record:
Edgar R Lowden b 22 Aug 1878 Brooklyn, parents: Robert Lowden and Kate D Newman.


With the 1880 census having this:

Robert Lowden     32  Maine-Maine-Maine
Kate         "            30   NY-Engl-Engl
Robert William "      7    NY-Maine-NY
Edgar Bennett  "      1    NY-Maine-NY

The 1900 Census has Robert Louden listed as a widower, so Kate has passed away by 1900. By 1905 Robert has remarried to Rena and they had three children together...

Frances Skidmore

--could this be Charles's mother, Frances E (Newman) Latimer? I'm beginning to think she is. Latimer and Skidmore are similar.

Last time I "saw" Frances Latimer was in the 1901 Brooklyn Directory. I searched for Frances Skidmore today and found this:

1910 US Census Brooklyn  Graham Home for the Aged Ladies
Frances E (like my Frances) Skidmore
age 70 (so born 1840, like my Frances)
b. NY, father b. England, mother b. England (like my Frances)
widow, mother of 1 with 0 still living (just like my Frances)

1915 NY State Census Kings county, NY
Frances E Skidmore
age 75
b. Gravesend (like my Frances's older sister Sarah)

So, if the census takers just misread the registry at the Home for Ages Ladies, how come the cemetery records also call her Frances Skidmore? I will see if the cemetery records shed any more light on this situation.

Hester A Merwin

--well, I didn't find anything helpful at this point, but how can she not be Hester/Esther A Stewart, the daughter of Mary Jane (Newman) Stewart?

Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman references can be found...but there hasn't been a way to tell if they are mine or not. It's too common a name. But, I did find one reference that might be mine:

US Naval Enlistment Jan 1859
Thomas Newman age 16 (so born in 1843, just like my Thomas)
B. Gravesend, New York (just like my Thomas's oldest sister Sarah)

But I don't know what happened to him after this. I have emailed Cypress Hills Cemetery to ask if they have a record of him being buried there.

Still more work to do, but I love solving mysteries.

using directories to help with my Newman, Stewart, Latimer, and Cook lines

I have never used directories before in genealogical research, but tonight the Brooklyn directories were a big help (accessing the ancestry.com database).

I have my William and Hannah (Westover) Newman. There was a William Newman who died in March of 1858 and his residence was "Park at Kent." I did not know if this was my William, but I thought there was a good chance that it was.

Tonight I discover that my Hannah Newman was living at 646 Myrtle St...which is basically the opposite side of the block from Park and Kent (if the block is a rectangle and the corners are labeled A, B, C, and D, it's like Park and Kent are the A point and 676 Myrtle is the C corner). Each directory year shows that the family kept moving, but usually within a few blocks of their previous address.

100% proof? No. But in my mind it's a 99.9% proof.

I've also been looking for the name of the husband of Frances E Newman. I know his last name is Latimer. Their son's (Charles O Latimer's) death certificate came today and I was very sad to see that the name of his parents are not on the certificate. :(  However, it does list the cemetery. I tried to contact them today, but they were already closed. I will try again tomorrow.

Now one of the reasons why I knew the death certificate that arrived today was the Charles O Latimer I was looking for is that his residence at the time of his death, 237 Duffield, goes with where his mother was living in 1888-89 (251 Duffield, according to the directory).

But, in looking at the directories and searching for Hannah Newman and her family (Mary Jane and David C Stewart, Frances E Latimer, and Catharine and John Cook), I see that in 1876 a Charles D. Latimer is living at 519 De Kalb, and so is Hannah Newman. So, now I'm trying to track down Charles D. Latimer and see if he is indeed married to Frances E Newman (I suppose there's a slight chance he's the father-in-law).

There is one confusion I'm having in reading the entries in the directory. The explanation says that sometimes the names of adult children are listed with the parents. The explanation didn't say anything about deceased spouses, yet I find this:

1876 Newman, Hannah, wid William 519 De Kalb av
1882 Latimer Fanny E wid Charles O dressmkr 471 Marcy Av
1888-89 F E Latimer widow Charles 251 Duffield
1889-90 Catharine Cook, widow John 404A Monroe

Interesting thing, there is a Charles D. Latimer that is listed in 1868, 1869, 1876, and 1877, and then I don't see him again. Frances/Fanny is first listed in 1878, so even though I thought her husband died before 1870 (he wasn't listed with them in the 1870 census), I guess he died around 1877-78.

So, I'm making some progress, though I still haven't figured out the death dates for most of the children and their spouses, but I am getting things narrowed down.