Norton Family information

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ford-1055 Lists children neatly ever year.

I’m going to check archives of Maryland, they’re fabulous.

http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/html/index.html

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnes-1410 Has wrong parents, see https://www.vectisjon.com/familyhistory/getperson.php?personID=I179...

It’s a family that never left England.

Job Barnes, Sr.

Maryland Marriage Evidences, 1634-1718 By Robert W. Barnes. Page 67.

https://books.google.com/books?id=64bqX44NwwEC&lpg=PA67&ots=Ze7jlyJ...

Clarke, Matthew or Mathias, m by 1706 Eliza., widow of Job Barnes of A.A.

Dang I’m good!

I set up a separate Matthew Clarke because it’s so different.

Says Margaret Norton was a widow, gives John Norton in detail, and no Margaret.

what a confusing Elizabeth! But she can’t be born 1668 and have a 1720 child.

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Notes for Margaret Norton:

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/grooms/475/

NORTON, JOHN (1), was b. c.1678, d. 24 March 1726/7, giving his age as 37 in 1714/5, and stating be had lived in Balto, Co. for about 17 years; was in Balto. Co. by 1694 as a taxable in S. Side Gunpowder; in May 1707 purch. Norton's Lot (being part of a larger tract called Jones' Inheritance) from John and Mary Boring; his will, proved, 3 April 1727, named w. Elizabeth and ch. William, John, Richard, Ann, Elizabeth, and Mary; admin. bond was posted 15 July 1727 by execs. Thomas and Elizabeth Harryman, with George and Samuel Harryman, John Norton having ren. his right to admin.; est. was inv. 14 June 1728 by Benj amin Bowen and Richard Lenox and al. at t 12.6.0; additional inv. was filed in 1728; est. was admin. by Eliza, w. of Thomas Harryman, on 10 April 1729; dec. left a wid. and five ch.: WILLIAM; JOHN; RICHARD: ANN; ELIZABETH; ?no MARY (2:281; 12:341; 51:82, 272; 59 612; 68:18; 125:15; 133:193: 139; 203-3:110)

OK, Findagrave has Elizabeth Ford as widow of John Norton 1st.

What Geni has as 1st wife of John Norton & Colonial Settlers shows as https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1079...

I like this a lot better.

Family

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68979333/john-norton

John Norton was the son of [John William Norton and Jane Lane Norton].???

John married Elizabeth Ford, daughter of Thomas Ford.

CHILDREN:

1. William Norton
2. John Norton
3. Richard Norton
4. Elizabeth Norton
5. Mary Norton Brown
6. Ann Norton

Can we get a source on the F.A.G? Is she too old to be Norton l’s children’s mother? I don’t want to over complicate.

I’ve come around to agreeing, she can’t be Norton ll’s wife. So far we don’t know his wife.

Also - the children names for Norton ll are the same as Norton l!

Norton’s from County Carlow are here:

http://www.nortonfamily.net/ireland-armagah-edward.htm

Edward Norton

Detaching John Norton of Baltimore County as son of Edward & Ann Norton - they didn’t have a son John who went to Maryland.

We do, he was perhaps John. John Norton l was married twice, 1st unknown (Elizabeth Ford???) 2) Elizabeth widow Butler. John Norton ll’s wife was Jane.

I’m uploading Everton’s, not sure if you can see:

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10095-1192677/john-sr-no...

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000180973727906&graph_node_id=profile-65429348&mode=tagged Made it (almost all) clear to me.

I merged in error and then realized it’s not possible. Explanation below. So I had to wait for a curator to undo merge, and she wouldn’t until she had finished ticking off citations on the document.

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Margaret Peggy Grooms Will stay unclear for now because she was a widow, and I don’t know If she was a widow Norton or not. She’s not named in John Norton’s 1727 Will, and neither is Samuel Norton but there could be other reasons; I wouldn’t disconnect them without more research.

But John Norton’s Will did name a stepson, Patrick Butler and that’s crucial. It means his mother, named Elizabeth, was a widow Butler. And unless Elizabeth Clarke squeezed in a third marriage to a Butler after Matthew (or Mathias) Clarke she cannot have been the same person as either Elizabeth Clarke or Elizabeth Clark

And - why did John Norton not name any Barnes children?

So there’s a little more to check. But so far, Elizabeth Ford was not a Norton, that I can see.

This is a Maryland genealogist to watch for.

https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013000/013095/ht...

And - here’s his obituary.

https://www.baltimoregenealogysociety.org/BCGShome/robert-barnes-fo...