I can trace my NEWPORT family back to a Joseph NEWPORT who married an Ann WALL in Bath Abbey in 1794. They lived in Hinton, Somerset and moved to London in the period 1801 t0 1808. Most of the family returned to Bristol and Bath in the 1830s - 1850s. One daughter, Eliza NEWPORT married John CHILD and migrated to USA in the 1830s and lived and had children in Philadephia PA,St Louis Missouri and Belleville Illinois, some of whom became Mormons.
In the 1880's some of the family emigrated to Australia, which is where I come in.
If anyone has information on any of these branches, especially on NEWPORTs in Somerset in the 1700s and 1800s I would be delighted to hear from them. I have extensive information on NEWPORTs in England including some indexes.