Appendix 1

Susanna shall be her name

The only portrait of Susanna ever created. Credit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG157445

Susanna Newcome’s name has been spelled in many ways, and is spelled differently almost every time it is in print (Susana, Susannah, Susan, Newcomb, Newcombe, Newcomen, Newcomer, Comus, etc.). However, “Susanna Newcome” is the correct spelling as seen on all of her baptism and marriage records, her gravestone, and in her husband’s own hand, inscribed in his copy of Enquiry left to St. John’s College (below).

Susanna’s baptism record provided by the Wiltshire Record Office
Susanna and John’s marriage record provided by the London Metropolitan Archives. It appears the clerk spelled “Newcome” incorrectly here as “Newcomb”.

Susanna’s grave at the St. Bene’t Church in Cambridge, and shares a plot with her mother Mary. Her stone reads: “A woman of an excellent understanding and an upright heart, who constantly employed her great talents to the honor of God and the good of mankind through the course of a long life.”