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HARVEY S VISITATION IN 1552
THE PEDEGRE OF JOHN NORTHON OF NORTON HAIL, ESQIYER, IN THE CONTE OF RYCHMONDE
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SIR RICHARD NORTON maryed Ysabell, one of the dowghters and heyres of Syr William Tempest of Studeley, and had yssu Syr John Norton.
SIR JOHN NORTON. Jonne, dowghter of Sir Randoll Pygot, had yssu Sir John Norton and others.
SIR JOHN NORTON of Norton, maryed Margaret, dowghter of Roger Warde of Gevendale in Yorkshyr, had yssu John, eldyst sone ; Margaret, maryed to Syr Roger Lassells; Jane, maryed to Sir William Malore; Ane, maryed to Christofer Wadysforde.
JOHN NORTON, esquyer, son and heyre to Sir John, maryed Ane, dowghter and heyre to Wylliam Ratclyte of Relyston, and had yssu Rychard Norton, eldyst ; Thomas, ijnd sone : William, iijrd sone: Ane, maryed to Robert Plomton of Plomton; Margaret, maryed to Thomas Markenfeld of Markenfeld.
RICHARD NORTON, son and heyre to John. Norton esquyer, maryed Susane, dowghter to Rychard Lord Latymer, and had yssu Francis, sone and heyre; John, second son; Edmond, iijrd sone; Wylliam, iiijth sone; Thomas, with; George, vjth sone; Christofer, vijth sone; Mamaduke, viijth sone: Samson, ixth sone; Iiatheryn, weclyd to Francis Bulmer of [blank]; Elizabeth, maryed to Henry Johnson of [blank]: Anne, maryed to Robert Bernande of Knaresburge; Mary, maryed to Henry Grene; Clare, maryed
[to Richard Godrrjke of Rebston in coin Ebor?]* ; Johane, maryed to Henry Gascoyne of Sadbury ; and Jonne, vnmaryed.
FRANCIS, sone and heyre to Rychard Norton, maryed Abrae [Aubrey] dowghter to Christofer Wynbyshe of Lyncolneshyre, and had yssu John, eldyst son; Henry, ijnd son ; Elyzabeth, Susane, and Sara.
[editor's note: For an account of the Richard Norton who married Susan, daughter to Richard, Lord Latimer, generally called "Old Norton," the most important person (the earls of Northumberland and Westmorland excepted) in the Rising of the North and of his family see Sharp' s Memorials of the Rebellion in 1569 . In a note dated 1839 by Lord Grantley at p . 277 thereof, it is stated that a portrait of " Old Norton " hangs in Grantley Hall . See also Diet . Nat . Biog ., vol . xli . p . 217.]
* These words are in another early handwriting.
source: Frederick Walter Dendy and C. H. Hunter Blair, editors, Visitations of the North, or Some Early Heraldic Visitations of, and Collections of Pedigrees, Relating to the North of England, Vol. 122, page 65, Andrews and Co., Durham, England, 1912
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