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I have done a bit of digging on the name of Dearnley in the Buxton area of Derbyshire where my great aunt and great uncle were born but there is no link with the Newsome name, that I can find. The only theory my cousin and I can come up with is that there was a family of Dearnley's who were unable to have any children of their own but became godparents to my great aunt and great uncle and as such had the name of Dearnley inserted. The only Dearnley with the loosest (and I mean LOOSE) of links is a family who lived on the same road in Buxton at the time and they ran a tobacconist shop on that street.

That is not where the trail goes cold, however. My aunt died last year and she handed on to me a lot of Newsome family memorobilia. One of the items was what is called a Memory Book that belonged to my grandfather (her father) and in it, he kept a record of birth dates and year. One of them was a George Dearnley born around 1835 and then a Georgina Dearnley born in 1903 (I think). Somewhere I have a record, on this computer, of someone who we believe is Georgina Dearnley's mother (Georges daughter) and it looks like Georgina may have been illegitimate. This is the only written record of Dearnley in the family and I feel that this must be the link from a Dearnley family tree to the Newsome family tree but cannot find the relationship.