When Thomas Newton was born in 1876, in Portland, Victoria, Australia, his father, Thomas Charles Newton, was 31 and his mother, Rebecca Wilson, was 28. He married Ellen Evans in 1905, in Victoria, Australia. He died on 22 October 1941, in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 65.
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English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England and Scotland so named, from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, or Middle English neue ‘new’ + toun ‘settlement, town’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English placename. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
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