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Lucy Norton (Downing)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Death: February 05, 1698 (68-77)
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Emanuel Downing and Lucy Downing
Wife of Rev. William Norton, of Ipswich
Mother of Rev. John Norton, of Hingham; Elizabeth Addington; Bonus Norton; William Norton and Lucy Norton
Sister of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet; Joshua Downing; Robert Downing; Henry Downing; Ann Bradstreet and 3 others
Half sister of Mary Stoddard; James Downing and Susan Downing

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About Lucy Norton

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Downing-648

Lucy Downing was born in Suffolk Co., England c1625, daughter of Emmanuel Downing and his second wife Lucy Winthrop. Her family came to New England, settling at Salem, Massachusetts in 1638, [1] on the ship Thomas and Frances. [2]

Lucy married William Norton of Ipswich, Massachusetts c1649. [1] According to Anderson her husband's origin are unknown. [3]

Her husband William wrote his will on April 28, 1694/5, in it he left bequests to: [4]

eldest son John Norton, 10s , having given him his portion already
my daughter Elizabeth 'Wanrite', L80, to be paid in L20 increments over 4 years
my son Bonus Norton, to be sole executor - 20s and all my dwelling house and lands, my household goods and my flock of cattle
my wife Lucy - all her care and maintenance by son Bonus [4]

He died at Ipswich a few days later, on April. 30, 1694/5. [5]

Widow Lucy Norton died at Ipswich on February 5, 1697/8. [1] [5]

Children of Lucy Downing and William Norton:

  1. John Norton+1 b. c 1665, d. 3 Oct 1716
  2. Elizabeth born ___; married John Wainwright on March 10, 1674. [5]
  3. Bonus.
  4. ? William born on February 12, 1660/1 [6]; not mentioned in William's 1694 will. [4]
  5. ?Lucy born on January 25, 1662/3 [6]; ; not mentioned in William's 1694 will. [4]

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Supporting data

  • 'Clarke's kindred genealogies. A genealogical history of certain descendants of Joseph Clarke, Dorchester, 1630; Denice Darling, Braintree, 1662; Edward Gray, Plymouth, 1643; and William Horne, Dover, 1659; and sketches of the Orne (Horne), Pynchon, and Downing families (1896)
  • http://www.archive.org/details/clarkeskindredge00clar
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/clarkeskindredge00clar#page/143/mode/1up
    • DOWNING GENEALOGY.
  • "Downing, Benjamin, Hatfield 1679, took the o. of alleg. that yr. and m. the second yr. Sarah, d, perhaps eldest, of William Hunter ; may have been, but prob. not, s. of Emanuel. Dennis, Kittery 1650, in Nov. 1652 sw. alleg. to Mass., and was k. by the Ind. 4 July, 1697, unless the sufferer were s. of the first. Emanuel, Salem, from London, where he was a lawyer of the Inner Temple, inhab. of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill Ward, came in 1638 with his wife Lucy, d. of Adam Winthrop, Esqr. of Groton, in co. Suff. where she was baptized 27 Jan. 1601, sis. of our first Gov. of Mass., m. 10 Apr. 1622. They were adm. of the ch. 4 Nov., 1638, and he was sw. a freeman Mar., 1639, rep. the same yr. 40, 1, 4 and 8 ; was propos. for an Assist, in 1641, but not chos. His ch. were George, b. prob. in 1623, or 4, and was perhaps, kept in sch. at home until his f. came ; Mary, who came May, 1633 with Gov., Coddington in the " Mary and Jane," and in Nov., of that yr. was adm. of the ch. in Boston ; James, wh. was brot. by his uncle, the Gov. in the Arbella 1630; Susan, wh. came at the same time with Mary ; Ann ; 'Lucy' ; and these foll. b. on our side of the ocean, John, bap. 1 Mar., 1640 ; and Dorcas, 7 Feb., 1641. He went home early in 1642, back next yr. and went again in 1644, on business, but came back next yr. The date of his d. is not found, nor that of his w. tho. we see proof of his req. to the Gen. Ct. Sept., 1653 for his 600 acres to be laid out, and of her liv. 4 Aug., 1656, when she gave to Capt. Joseph Gardner dowry on his m. with her d. and the same shows that her h. Emanuel was d. The s. James, I think, liv. at Ipswich ; Mary m. Anthony Stoddard of Boston ; Ann was w. of the intrepid Capt. Gardner, k. at the gr. Narraganset swamp fight in Philip's war, and after m. Gov. Bradstreet. There was a John D. wh. d. at Boston, 29 April, 1694, but he was a merch. from Nevis, where was his fam. ......
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  • 'Lucy Downing1
  • 'F, b. 13 March 1625, d. 5 February 1698
  • Father Rev. Emanuel Downing2 b. 12 Aug 1585
  • Mother Lucy Winthrop2 b. 27 Jan 1600, d. 19 Apr 1679
  • ' Lucy Downing was christened on 13 March 1625 at St. Michael Cornhill, London, Middlesex, England.1 She married William Norton circa 1649.1,2 Lucy Downing died on 5 February 1698 at Ipswich, Essex, MA, at age 72.1
  • 'Family William Norton b. c 1626, d. 30 Apr 1694
  • Child
    • ◦John Norton+1 b. c 1665, d. 3 Oct 1716

References

  1. http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3975.htm#... cites
    1. [S14] Unknown author, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey., p. 540.
    2. [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
  2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Downing-648 cites
    1. Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. "A Study of the Downing Family in England, with Connections In Early New England" in: The American Genealogist, Volume 74, D. L. Jacobus, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, p. 173-4. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
    2. Passenger Ships, 1636-40: Part II in: Great Migration Newsletter, Volume 21: No. 4: 2012, p. 28 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.)
    3. Anderson, Robert C. William Norton in : Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston, Massachusetts, 2007, p. 280-2 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.)
    4. Case 19639: p. 1-3: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-188, (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
    5. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume II: Marriages and Deaths, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1910, p. 320: 639
    6. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume I: Births, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1910, p.277
  3. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) "George Norton of Salem, Massachusetts" by Herbert F. Seversmith. Vol. 16, p. 111. < AmericanAncestors >
  4. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lucy_Downing_%281%29 cites
    1. Hyde, Myrtle Stevens, “A Study of the Downing Family in England, with Connections in Early New England”, v. 74 [Jul-Oct 1999] : 161-174, 299-308., in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)

(at 74:174).

  1. # Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919) II:639. Norton, Lucy, wid. William, Feb. 5, 1697-8.
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Lucy Norton's Timeline

1624
March 13, 1624
Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
1625
1625
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
1650
1650
of, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
1653
August 7, 1653
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
1657
1657
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1661
February 12, 1661
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
1663
January 24, 1663
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
1698
February 5, 1698
Age 73
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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