Louisa Norris

John Norris and Louisa Douglas (1781), were married,18 December 1798, Saint Clement Danes, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.

They lived at Hawley House and later, Hughenden House. They had nine daughters, seven survived to adulthood.

Christening

06 March 1779, Grantham, Lincoln, England - father Thos Douglas

Douglas family

Read about Thomas Douglas in the Douglas archives
Book: Douglas genealogy
Some background history about Grantham
===Hawley House, Hampshire===

It is well-known locally that Hawley House was one of the homes of the two John Norris. Father and son were successive owners of both Hughenden (before Benjamin Disraeli), and of Hawley House.

The elder John Norris has been described as the "richest commoner in England" (along with at least a dozen other claimants to this title). He appears to have kept a different mistress in each house. Henrietta Mason was established at Hawley House and Deborah Busby at Hughenden. In his will Norris acknowledged that Deborah's eldest illegitimate son was his rightful heir. The latter had been known as John Williams, but as John Norris the younger he lived at Hawley House with his young wife Louisa.

The Yately Parish Registers record the baptisms of the younger John Norris' nine daughters between 1800 and 1813, and the burial of two of them. John Norris II would have been the owner in 1828 when the engraving of Hawley House was published in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts. - P. J. Tipton, 2014

Sources

1. History of Hawley Park & Hawley House - P. J. Tipton - Yately Local Historian, Twitter:@yateley_history
2. Residence: Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England - (UK Census 1841)

Research tools

• Finding Louisa's birth certificate - Lincolnshire historic birth, marriage or death records
• Lincolnshire record search [2]

Additional info & links

• Hart District Council Conservation Area Appraisal

Family Search

Lousia Christening "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGHW-MR8 : 11 February 2018, Lovisa Douglas, 06 Mar 1779); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 432,509, 432,510.