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I haven't searched for Newman, but I have had some very creative interpretations using Ancestry.com. Sometimes due to really bad handwriting or very dim originals, sometimes who knows why. I have had good luck by just using three or four letters of the surname followed by an '*'. For instance, Newm* would return: Newman, Newmen, Newmon, Newmin, etc. plus a variety of others that probably would be some other surname. Sometime this just returns too many to follow but if you have a birth date or location you can use that to narrow the results. Sometime the letter 'e' gets transcribed as 'a', sometime even 'o'. I would start with Newm*, then substitute the 'e' with every other reasonable vowel.
You might try flipping the given name and surname. I found my Thomas Gibbs in 1830 Hancock Co. KY transcribed as surname THOMAS, given name Gibbs.
The 'W' could have been transcribed a 'uu' or 'vv'. I found one of my Carroll ancestors indexed as 'Canoll' because the r's had been written loosely and spread apart.
This suggestion is what I consider the last resort and is really only useful if you have a some clue about where they might be. You can look through page by page. Tedious to say the least, but I have found things this way. I'm pretty sure that's how I found Thomas Gibbs in 1830.
Finally, even though you may be positive that your person should be in a certain spot, there may have been pages that were damaged and unable to be transcribed. Not much you can do about that.
I hope you find something useful here. Good luck!
Jane
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