An examination of the wills of these two John Newmans eliminates the
second because his wife is named Mary, and his daughters and sons are
Elizabeth, Charles, Samuel and Robert. Our John Newman's wife, as we
have seen, was Elizabeth, and his children were John, Elizabeth, Mary and
Thomas.

The other John Newman, the Grocer, is evidently identical with the John
Newman of a document preserved in the Mozley family, granting the Free-
dom of the City of London to John Newman, June 28th, 1764. (The dis-
crepancy between this date, June 28th, and May 24th in the above entry is
not relevant, as the process of joining a Company and of being made a
Freeman are distinct processes.)

Furthermore, in 1822 John II was admitted to the Freedom of the City of
London (here I quote from a letter of the Clerk of the Chamberlain's Court,
July, 1949) "by Patrimony in the Company of Musicians on 25th June, 1822.
He was born on 25th October, 1767, in the Parish of Saint George's, Hanover
Square, and was the son of the John Newman who had been admitted to the
Freedom of the City by redemption in the Company of Musicians in June
1764. This latter John Newman is noted in the Freedom records as having
been a coffee-man. There is no information about him other than that.
The facts tally.

A minor point of agreement is that the first child of John I, Elizabeth
(Aunt Eliza), was baptized in Leadenhall Street, at St. Katherine Cree's.

Wilfrid Ward gave John II as the only son of John Newman of Lombard
Street; both statements are incorrect. There was a John Newman in Lom-
bard Street, a goldsmith; but his will shows that he had no connection with
our family. Wilfrid Meynell says J. H. N. was born in Birchin Lane. The
pedigree compiled by Mr. John Mozley, Notes and Queries, November 3rd,
1945, must be corrected in one respect, i.e., the identity of John I.

Note: As to John Newman's choice of the Musicians' Company, in those
days nobody was permitted to trade in the City unless belonging to one of
the Livery Companies and the prospective trader entered indifferently into
any Company which had vacancies. Thus Henry Fourdrinier, father of
John II's wife Jemima, is called Citizen and Draper, though by profession
a stationer.