'Norris05'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Norris of Fifield, Norris of Hughenden Manor, Norris of Sheffield,
| (1) The following section was first launched on 28.12.20 as a section of a Temporary page. It was moved here after review led to acceptance that there was little chance of our making a significant improvement to it in the near future and that it was 'good enough' to be promoted into the main database. (2) John is shown at the continuation as possibly son of the Edmund of Fifield whose eldest brother, Sir William Norreys of Speke, lived 1459-1506/7. We note that Visitation shows that John's wife Mary had a cousin, Richard, who was mentioned in 1424. That gave us concern that this John of Fifield was of the same line as his projected father Edmund. However, as the dates of the cross-references to this family from elsewhere in the database broadly support that John could have been son of Edmund, and noting the mistake with Elizabeth below, we view it as not unlikely that Visitation was mistaken with that 1424 date. |
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| John Norris of Fifield, Berkshire | |||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Staverton (dau/coheir of William Staverton of Staverton Mnnor) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | William Norris of Fifield | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Fortescue (dau of Adrian Fortescue) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | John Norris of Fifield | ||||||||||||||
| i. | John Norris of Fifield | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Beresford (dau of George Beresford of London, widow of Roger Colte of Wodax or Woday) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Elizabeth Norris | ||||||||||||||
| Visitation shows that Elizabeth married Thomas Viscount Fenton. However, there is no indication in TCP (Kellie) that Thomas Erskine (1566-1639), who was later created 1st Earl of Kellie having been created Viscount Fentoun in 1606, ever married an Elizabeth née Norris. However, he did marry, in 1604 as his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Pierrepont, widow of Sir Edward Norreys. Note that CountyGen (Berry, Hampshire, p178), which is focused on the Staverton family and which otherwise follows Visitation & reports the above, does not mention Elizabeth at all. | |||||||||||||||
| Mentioned in the Visitation, but not directly connected to the above line, was the following Anne. Uncertainty with the dates leads to uncertainty with the generations. She could be some generations earlier! | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Anne Norris | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Staverton of Warvyle | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Jane Norris possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Rudyard of Rudyard (d c1620) | |||||||||||||||
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| The following section was first launched on 10.09.14 as a section of a Temporary page. It was moved here after review led to acceptance that there was little chance of our making a significant improvement to it in the near future and that it was 'good enough' to be promoted into the main database. | |||||||||||||||
| Robert Norris (d 1751) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Norris of Hawley & Hughenden Manor (b 1721, d 29.06.1786) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Ellen Savage (sister/coheir of Charles Savage of Hughenden) | |||||||||||||||
| MGH (NS3, vol 5 (1904), 'Pedigree of the Family of Savage of Tachbrooke, Warwickshire', p101+) shows Ellen as m. John and mother of John of Hughenden, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, bur 1786. Various web sites suggest that that John was in fact her husband rather than her son. | |||||||||||||||
| p. Deborah Busby (housekeeper) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | John Norris of Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire (b 1774, d 1845) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Louisa Norris (b 1780, d 1842) | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Charles Norris (b 24.08.1779, d 13.10.1858, "topographical etcher and writer") | ||||||||||||||
| C. | Elizabeth Norris | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Bevan | |||||||||||||||
| D.+ | 2 others (d young) | ||||||||||||||
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| Benjamin Norris of Sheffield (b c1679, d 12.02.1752) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Matthew Norris of Sheffield (b c1718, d 21.12.1761, razor smith) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (19.11.1739) Catherine Fox (d 14.04.1746, dau of Stephen Fox of Little Sheffield) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Samuel Norris of Sheffield (b 07.08.1745, d 16.07.1817, razor manufacturer) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (27.02.1770) Mary Jervis (d 31.01.1824, dau of John Jervis of Sheffield by Margaret Rawson) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Norris of Sheffield (b 21.01.1780, d 19.09.1826) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (13.07.1805) Frances Dixon (b 06.03.1782, d 21.07.1842, dau of Rev. James Dixon of Eclesfield) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Catherine Norris (b 09.12.1770) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (27.09.1798) Rickards Ince of Wirksworth | |||||||||||||||
| iii.+ | other issue - Thomas (d 06.10.1816, later curate in Sussex), others (d young - Samuel, John, William, Margaret, Mary, Elizabeth) | ||||||||||||||
| B.+ | other issue - John (bpt 08.02.1743, d 26.02.1743), Elizabeth (bpt 22.01.1741, d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Hannah Swift (d 22.12.1759) | |||||||||||||||
| D.+ | other issue - Matthew (b 1754-5, dsp 06.06.1775), Mary (b c1750, d 10.10.1752) | ||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue - George, John | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : Visitation (Hampshire, 1530+1575-1622-34, 'Staverton')
(2) For middle section : various web sites including Wikipedia
(3) For lower section (originally uploaded 21.07.16 to NZmisc01, moved to Norris04 on 25.11.20, moved here 17.06.25) : FMG (vol 4, MS536, 'Fox-Norris', p1174)
[The orginal lower section was moved to and absorbed by Norton06 on 17.06.25.]
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