William Norton

- 1445

• Name	William Norton  [1]
  Birth	of Brookhill, Devon, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Newton St. Cyres, Devon, England   [4]
  Death	Between 1441 and 1445  [5]
  Alternate death	Aft 1441  [3]
  Person ID	I18683	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	Thomas Norton,   b. of Brookhill, Devon, England d. Bef Apr 1395
  Family ID	F11390	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Cruwys,   b. of Morchard, Devon, England d. Aft 1445
  Marriage	Bef 1417  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Margaret Norton
  Family ID	F11345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  King's Esquire and Usher to the Council Chamber under Henrys IV and V. He owned significant property near Exeter and elsewhere.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S2494] The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1564: With Additions from the Earlier Visitation of 1531 by William Harvey; ed. Frederic Thomas Colby. Exeter, 1881. [S804] Charles Fitch-Northen, "The Trowbridge Ancestry." The Genealogist 9:3, Spring 1988. [S699] The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by J. L. Vivian. Devon: 1895. [S2497] Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard by Joe Cochoit.