see notes for his wife -------------------- RECORD:

1. Nexus. "STates that she married his cousin Mary Norris d/o WIlliam and Mary Norris but no brother listed as William under Edward; father of James (to make her cousin). The relationship could have come through her mother."

2. Thomas Miller Myers, The Norris Family of Maryland ((1916) William Clemens, Publisher New York, New York), pg. 24-5, New England Historic Genealogical Society, CS/71/N858/1916. This work is not documented.

"No children in records at St. Johns. But wills of his brother Daniel & Sister Mary mentions on child each: Daniel (in Daniel's will) & Charlotte (in Mary's will)."

3. Harry Alexander Davis, The Norris Family of Maryland & Virginia; Genealogy of Thomas Norris 1361 - 1930 (4 vol. 1941 Washington D.C. Transcript), pg. 104-5, Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20540-4570, CS71.N858; Microfilm 88/5447 MicRR 99ft.

"The Norris Family" is an amazing work in Genealogy, 1500 pages in four volumes. Only three copies were produced, and one is located in the Rare Books Section of the Library of Congress. Another is to be in the Kansas DAR Library at dodge city, Ks. "born Baltimore co., Md 25 Feb. 1742/3. He was devised certain lands by his father in 1761 jointly with his brothers. James Norris was enlisted by Ensign Lewis, & passed by William Hyde Lieut. & assigned to Colonel Edward Cookey's Battalion of Militia (Arch Md. Vol. 12 fol. 541). They resided in Baltimore co. This data from family bible of James Norris, their son, in possession of Mrs. Dallas Grady, of Washington D.C. Children: Daniel, Mary Frances, Charlotte, James, Belinda, Elizabeth, Hannah & Benjamin."