Wife of George Norris of North Mundham and Chichester, in Sussex.
Henry Norris, blacksmith, of Okeherst and Stildesland (in Waldron), East Sussex, died in 1617 or 1618.His will was recorded on 27 Jun 1618 [East Sussex Record Office ~ SAS-RF/2/24].He had married Joan Joanes on 11 Aug 1588 in Sittingbourne, Kent; and after his death she re-married on 23 Jun 1619 in Waldron to Nicholas Fowle [see the appropriate parish registers for these entries].Henry Norris was already a resident of Waldron when he purchased the two properties mentioned above in 1616 [see East Sussex Record Office ~ SAS-RF/2/21 & 22].Joan and Henry Norris were the parents of~
George Norris who was christened 4 May 1592 in Fittleworth, West Sussex.George Norris, carpenter, was a resident of North Mundham, West Sussex [the home of his wife's family], before he leased property in 1648 in the Little London neighborhood of Chichester, West Sussex [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5633 & 5634].He was deceased by 1660 when his wife in a will dated 2 Apr 1660 describes herself as widow [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5636].Her identity and their children christenings are recorded in NEHGR 70, 136.Margaret (Chatfield) Norris was living in the Little London neighborhood of Chichester in 1671 when she made a settlement on her daughter, Anne Norris, who had married John Deere, cordwainer, of Chichester [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5635].Her will was recorded on 12 Jun 1675, fifteen years after the writing of it [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5636].The third son of George and Margaret was~
Henry Norris who was christened 14 Mar 1640/1 in North Mundham, West Sussex.In the 1660 will of his mother he was left personal effects (including a table at her house in North Mundham) and money owed her in the hands of his uncle Chatfield.At this time she only had two brothers living, Thomas Chatfield of East Hampton, Long Island, and George Chatfield of Guilford, Connecticut.This Henry Norris already had three uncles who had removed to New England, and was left an interest in money in the hands of one of them.This certainly supports the identification of this Henry Norris with the one in the New Jersey settlement.To further support this is the fact that the New Jersey Henry Norris' wife was an East Hampton women named Abigail Stretton.The Chatfield and Stretton families were early influential families in East Hampton rating a place of importance with the Gardiners, Jameses, Mulfords, and Conklings.To further support an interrelatedness of these families, the Sussex Henry Norris had a known first cousin-once removed named Judge Thomas Chatfield (1680-1754) who married on 26 May 1707 in East Hampton to Hannah Stretton, a known niece of Abigail (Stretton) Norris.This all taken stacked together is a strong case for identifying the Henry Norris (born 1640/1) from West Sussex with the Henry Norris (d. 1706) of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, as one and the same person.I am aware that others have presented the Elizabethtown Norris as a scion of the Norrises of Southampton, but I have seen no evidence outside of a common surname and a relative proximity (Southampton and East Hampton) to suggest any certainty to that claim.Please be the judge for yourself with what I have presented here.
Henry Norris, blacksmith, of Okeherst and Stildesland (in Waldron), East Sussex, died in 1617 or 1618.His will was recorded on 27 Jun 1618 [East Sussex Record Office ~ SAS-RF/2/24].He had married Joan Joanes on 11 Aug 1588 in Sittingbourne, Kent; and after his death she re-married on 23 Jun 1619 in Waldron to Nicholas Fowle [see the appropriate parish registers for these entries].Henry Norris was already a resident of Waldron when he purchased the two properties mentioned above in 1616 [see East Sussex Record Office ~ SAS-RF/2/21 & 22].Joan and Henry Norris were the parents of~
George Norris who was christened 4 May 1592 in Fittleworth, West Sussex.George Norris, carpenter, was a resident of North Mundham, West Sussex [the home of his wife's family], before he leased property in 1648 in the Little London neighborhood of Chichester, West Sussex [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5633 & 5634].He was deceased by 1660 when his wife in a will dated 2 Apr 1660 describes herself as widow [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5636].Her identity and their children christenings are recorded in NEHGR 70, 136.Margaret (Chatfield) Norris was living in the Little London neighborhood of Chichester in 1671 when she made a settlement on her daughter, Anne Norris, who had married John Deere, cordwainer, of Chichester [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5635].Her will was recorded on 12 Jun 1675, fifteen years after the writing of it [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5636].The third son of George and Margaret was~
Henry Norris who was christened 14 Mar 1640/1 in North Mundham, West Sussex.In the 1660 will of his mother he was left personal effects (including a table at her house in North Mundham) and money owed her in the hands of his uncle Chatfield.At this time she only had two brothers living, Thomas Chatfield of East Hampton, Long Island, and George Chatfield of Guilford, Connecticut.This Henry Norris already had three uncles who had removed to New England, and was left an interest in money in the hands of one of them.This certainly supports the identification of this Henry Norris with the one in the New Jersey settlement.To further support this is the fact that the New Jersey Henry Norris' wife was an East Hampton women named Abigail Stretton.The Chatfield and Stretton families were early influential families in East Hampton rating a place of importance with the Gardiners, Jameses, Mulfords, and Conklings.To further support an interrelatedness of these families, the Sussex Henry Norris had a known first cousin-once removed named Judge Thomas Chatfield (1680-1754) who married on 26 May 1707 in East Hampton to Hannah Stretton, a known niece of Abigail (Stretton) Norris.This all taken stacked together is a strong case for identifying the Henry Norris (born 1640/1) from West Sussex with the Henry Norris (d. 1706) of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, as one and the same person.I am aware that others have presented the Elizabethtown Norris as a scion of the Norrises of Southampton, but I have seen no evidence outside of a common surname and a relative proximity (Southampton and East Hampton) to suggest any certainty to that claim.Please be the judge for yourself with what I have presented here.
Wife of George Norris of North Mundham and Chichester, in Sussex.
Henry Norris, blacksmith, of Okeherst and Stildesland (in Waldron), East Sussex, died in 1617 or 1618.His will was recorded on 27 Jun 1618 [East Sussex Record Office ~ SAS-RF/2/24].He had married Joan Joanes on 11 Aug 1588 in Sittingbourne, Kent; and after his death she re-married on 23 Jun 1619 in Waldron to Nicholas Fowle [see the appropriate parish registers for these entries].Henry Norris was already a resident of Waldron when he purchased the two properties mentioned above in 1616 [see East Sussex Record Office ~ SAS-RF/2/21 & 22].Joan and Henry Norris were the parents of~
George Norris who was christened 4 May 1592 in Fittleworth, West Sussex.George Norris, carpenter, was a resident of North Mundham, West Sussex [the home of his wife's family], before he leased property in 1648 in the Little London neighborhood of Chichester, West Sussex [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5633 & 5634].He was deceased by 1660 when his wife in a will dated 2 Apr 1660 describes herself as widow [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5636].Her identity and their children christenings are recorded in NEHGR 70, 136.Margaret (Chatfield) Norris was living in the Little London neighborhood of Chichester in 1671 when she made a settlement on her daughter, Anne Norris, who had married John Deere, cordwainer, of Chichester [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5635].Her will was recorded on 12 Jun 1675, fifteen years after the writing of it [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5636].The third son of George and Margaret was~
Henry Norris who was christened 14 Mar 1640/1 in North Mundham, West Sussex.In the 1660 will of his mother he was left personal effects (including a table at her house in North Mundham) and money owed her in the hands of his uncle Chatfield.At this time she only had two brothers living, Thomas Chatfield of East Hampton, Long Island, and George Chatfield of Guilford, Connecticut.This Henry Norris already had three uncles who had removed to New England, and was left an interest in money in the hands of one of them.This certainly supports the identification of this Henry Norris with the one in the New Jersey settlement.To further support this is the fact that the New Jersey Henry Norris' wife was an East Hampton women named Abigail Stretton.The Chatfield and Stretton families were early influential families in East Hampton rating a place of importance with the Gardiners, Jameses, Mulfords, and Conklings.To further support an interrelatedness of these families, the Sussex Henry Norris had a known first cousin-once removed named Judge Thomas Chatfield (1680-1754) who married on 26 May 1707 in East Hampton to Hannah Stretton, a known niece of Abigail (Stretton) Norris.This all taken stacked together is a strong case for identifying the Henry Norris (born 1640/1) from West Sussex with the Henry Norris (d. 1706) of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, as one and the same person.I am aware that others have presented the Elizabethtown Norris as a scion of the Norrises of Southampton, but I have seen no evidence outside of a common surname and a relative proximity (Southampton and East Hampton) to suggest any certainty to that claim.Please be the judge for yourself with what I have presented here.
Henry Norris, blacksmith, of Okeherst and Stildesland (in Waldron), East Sussex, died in 1617 or 1618.His will was recorded on 27 Jun 1618 [East Sussex Record Office ~ SAS-RF/2/24].He had married Joan Joanes on 11 Aug 1588 in Sittingbourne, Kent; and after his death she re-married on 23 Jun 1619 in Waldron to Nicholas Fowle [see the appropriate parish registers for these entries].Henry Norris was already a resident of Waldron when he purchased the two properties mentioned above in 1616 [see East Sussex Record Office ~ SAS-RF/2/21 & 22].Joan and Henry Norris were the parents of~
George Norris who was christened 4 May 1592 in Fittleworth, West Sussex.George Norris, carpenter, was a resident of North Mundham, West Sussex [the home of his wife's family], before he leased property in 1648 in the Little London neighborhood of Chichester, West Sussex [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5633 & 5634].He was deceased by 1660 when his wife in a will dated 2 Apr 1660 describes herself as widow [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5636].Her identity and their children christenings are recorded in NEHGR 70, 136.Margaret (Chatfield) Norris was living in the Little London neighborhood of Chichester in 1671 when she made a settlement on her daughter, Anne Norris, who had married John Deere, cordwainer, of Chichester [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5635].Her will was recorded on 12 Jun 1675, fifteen years after the writing of it [see West Sussex Record Office ~ Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 9, 5636].The third son of George and Margaret was~
Henry Norris who was christened 14 Mar 1640/1 in North Mundham, West Sussex.In the 1660 will of his mother he was left personal effects (including a table at her house in North Mundham) and money owed her in the hands of his uncle Chatfield.At this time she only had two brothers living, Thomas Chatfield of East Hampton, Long Island, and George Chatfield of Guilford, Connecticut.This Henry Norris already had three uncles who had removed to New England, and was left an interest in money in the hands of one of them.This certainly supports the identification of this Henry Norris with the one in the New Jersey settlement.To further support this is the fact that the New Jersey Henry Norris' wife was an East Hampton women named Abigail Stretton.The Chatfield and Stretton families were early influential families in East Hampton rating a place of importance with the Gardiners, Jameses, Mulfords, and Conklings.To further support an interrelatedness of these families, the Sussex Henry Norris had a known first cousin-once removed named Judge Thomas Chatfield (1680-1754) who married on 26 May 1707 in East Hampton to Hannah Stretton, a known niece of Abigail (Stretton) Norris.This all taken stacked together is a strong case for identifying the Henry Norris (born 1640/1) from West Sussex with the Henry Norris (d. 1706) of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, as one and the same person.I am aware that others have presented the Elizabethtown Norris as a scion of the Norrises of Southampton, but I have seen no evidence outside of a common surname and a relative proximity (Southampton and East Hampton) to suggest any certainty to that claim.Please be the judge for yourself with what I have presented here.
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