Although Hugh Newman of Epsom (1689-1746) left a son Samuel (born 1733) his heirs appear to have been the descendants of his daughter, Mary (1725-1780), who on 13 November 1750 married William Storey (or Story), tailor, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden. The family retained ownership of property in Epsom as late as 1892, when what had previously been held by copyhold was converted to freehold.
The property passed to William & Mary Story's second son, George William Story (1757-c. 1834), gentleman of Gray's Inn, London, whose daughter by Elizabeth Townsend, was Mary Ann Elizabeth Story, born at Medmenham, Bucks in 1797. She married Benjamin Aplin, son of Christopher D'Oyly Aplin (1745-1806) and Esther Aplin (nee Clark)
The Storeys seem to have leased the Epsom property to tenants, whereas the Aplins settled there. Benjamin Aplin (1790-1867) was a wine merchant of Bucklersbury, in the City of London, but by 1823 his widowed mother, Esther Aplin, had moved to Epsom from Hoxton Square and was accompanied by her two unmarried daughters, Esther Clark Aplin (1794-1877) and Sarah D'Oyly Aplin (1797-1852). As Benjamin Aplin married around 1822 it is not unreasonable to think that he was taking full advantage of the property brought to him through his marriage. His brother, The Rev'd Christopher D'Oyly Aplin (1781-1851), sometime Vicar of West Molesey, Surrey and Thorpe, Surrey, married Catherine Emma Newman; who was no relation to the Epsom Newmans, her father being John Newman, J.P & Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (died 1820) of Finmere House, Oxfordshire. Mary Ann Elizabeth Aplin (nee Storey) died at Epsom in 1865 and Benjamin Aplin followed in 1867.
Beenjamin and Mary All Elizabeth Aplin had three children: George William Aplin (1823-1896), Mary Elizabeth Aplin (born 1825, unmarried in 1881) and Susannah Esther Aplin. Susannah, who married John Hill of Souldern, Banbury, Oxfordshire, a wollen cloth manufacturer, inherited the Epsom properties. Her brother George William Aplin began life as a Builder's Clerk but by 1861 is living in Wakefield as a Clerk in the West Riding Constabulary, rising to Superintendant by 1871. Ten years later he is living in Rhyl as the Chief Clerk to the Flintshire Constabulary. One son, Benjamin D'Oyly Aplin (1846-1877) becomes a police constable in the West Riding Police after having served as an apprentice pharmaceutical chemist, whilst another, George William Habershon Aplin (born 1849) became an Inspector of the R.S.P.C.A.
From Sylvan Surrey to Babylon
The Newman Family of Dorking, Epsom and London
