I am forwarding this message, hoping it finds the right person: Today in an antique shop in Dallas I came across an 1890 wedding photo with this inscription on the back: "Estella Norton & William Fanning married November 12, 1890, Madelia, Minnesota". I am trying to contact any descendant who might want this picture. I eventually made my way to the Minnesota Genealogical Society website where I saw that you are researching a Norton family. Do you have any connection this this couple? Is the picture of any interest to you? I am just a fellow family historian trying to do a good deed. Gail L. Cheever 817-491-9382 forwarded by Darlene Joyce For professional help with family research: Darlene C. Joyce, CGRS sm findmyfamilyplease.com Please send MGS Cemetery Project email to: darlenecjoyce@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: norton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1722.1.2 Message Board Post: my ggggrand pa name was samuel noron he was born in ny,not for what year. he married to jurusha which she was born in either ny or conn. then they move to wayne co. penna. where thier had luther norton, tracy norton b04-6-1834.they lived there till tracy was 16yrs. old then move to ks.mo. area.hvae any information on a samuel in ny or conn. which i think it be around 1816 .

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1768 Message Board Post: HAMILTON NORTON I am looking for information about my great grandfather, Hamilton Norton. The information that I have: Born February 7, 1845 Married March 1, 1866 Margaret Ann Jordan Died May 10, 1877 Children James Edgar Norton December 13, 1867 Nora Ann Norton December 31, 1870 Lonnie Otis Norton March 25, 1874 Walter Curtis Norton March 23, 1876 I would deeply appreciate any information that you could furnish me on Hamilton Norton

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1767 Message Board Post: I have no relation to this family but I had to share this loose newspaper article I found in a old book I purchased on Ebay. It is so full of good family info. I do not know which newspaper it came from nor is a date listed anywhere on it. Most of the newspapers I got were from Rochester or Buffalo NY around 1900-1905. ****************************** Nordica To Wed Capt De La Mar New York, Oct 28- Mme Nordica will shortly become the bride of Captain Joseph Raphael de la Mar. This has been learned on good authority. The report electrified society and stageland, and writes a new chapter in one of the strangest romances of this country. It entangles two lives already filled with romantic interest. The elder Dumas could hardly have penned a more absorbing story than that which brings together the former sailor and diver and now millionaire and the woman who has earned the greatest laurels of the operatic stage. Captain de lar Mar is hurrying to completion the great mansion at Madison avenue and 37th street which was begun as the gift to the former Mrs. De la Mar, whose beauty was such as to win the tribute of Paris as well as New York. It is to this metropolitan palace that Captain de la Mar is expected to escort his bride. Until recently he has not been in the house for years. Captain de la Mar was divorced from his former wife several years ago, and she is now married to Jas. R. Hatmaker, who was for a long time the secretary of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and from whom he recieived a large gift of money several years ago. A strong friendship has existed between Captain de la Mar and Mme. Nordica for several years, but the first intimation of the engagement was received last week when Mme. Nordica resigned the part of ?Sulamith? the rejected bride in Goldmark?s ?Queen of Sheba?, which will open the season of grand opera in this city in November. It now appears that her reason for this action was the near approach of her wedding. Mme. Nordica was divorced from her second husband, Zoltan Doehme, in January 1904. She had met him in 1894 when she was singing?Elsa? in ?Lohengrin? at Bayreuth. Doehme, a young Hungarian tenor, was also singing in Bayreuth that year and the romance reached its climax when he married Mme Nordica in Indianapolis May 27, 1897. When Nordica finally resolved to secure a divorce from Doehme, she alleged that he had squandered $300,000 of her money. Mme. Nordica was born in Farmington, ME and was married to her first husband, Frederick Gower, an American in 1883. She was then Lillian Norton. This matrimonial venture was an unhappy one, however, and in 1887 she began suit for divorce. The suit never reached a legal conclusion, however for Frederick Gower?s disapearance at that time introduced a remarkable complication into the affair. He ascended in a balloon in England to make a trip across the channel and was never seen again. His disappearance was one of the most mysterious in the annals of aerostation, and to this day no one has ever discovered what strange end there was to the balloon voyage. In the course of time he was declared legally dead and Mme. Nordica was declared a widow in the eyes of the law. Captain de la Mar?s history is far more rugged in its romantic interest. He has been called, not inaptly, the American Monte Cristo. He began life as a sailor immigrant to this country. Later he became a diver and quit the hazardous profession after being confined under a wrecked ship for 12 hours. He then went west, was a butcher, a real estate dealer and a miner. While lacking luck as a prospector, he was successful as a purchaser of mining claims and the Wilson mine in Idaho, bought by him, has turned out to be one of the richest producers in this country. It is believed that his fortune is now at least $25,000,000. Some years ago while in New York Captain de la Mar met Nellie Virginia Sands and shortly after married her. She was a woman of striking beauty, and the married life of the pair was happy for some time. It is true that her bathing suit shocked Newport and that in Paris, where they finally took up their residence, the girl of 20 desired a livelier experience than her 50 year old husband regarded as proper. But it was not until he found in her desk a number of letters written by another man that he began suit for divorce. After the divorce had been granted he returned to this country with his 6 year old daugther and for a time took a deep interest in sending collectors to all parts of Europe to find articles of historic fitness for the various rooms in his handsome mansion he was erecting on Madison avenue. He took but little interest in the house himself however and rarely visited it turning over to decorators the work of furnishing it with materials collected by him. Two weeks ago, however, he began hurrying up the work, distributing among the decorators cigars wrapped in $5 bills as incentives to greater industry. Recently he and his daughter moved in to the two upper floors and it is said that as soon as the decorators have concluded their work he will marry Mme. Nordica.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1759.2 Message Board Post: The Nortons in England who descend from those who came in with William the Conquerer seem to be a totally separate group from some of the Nortons of Ireland. One source I read on Ireland listed Norton as one of the ancient names of Ireland. There were also a group of Nortons close to the royals of England who migrated to Ireland during the Reformation. It is my belief that there are at least these two separate origons of the Norton name.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1766 Message Board Post: Searching for information on Aaron J. Norton, that is listed on the 1920 Hardeman Co., Texas census, age 65, born in Texas. His father was born in KY, Mother in VA.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1764.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for that idea. Do you have any information regarding George Norton readily available?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1764.1 Message Board Post: Given the time and location, I would have to suggest this is a son of George Norton of Lexington.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1764 Message Board Post: Looking for James Francis Norton in Kentucky. Married Hester Breezin in 1800's. Son - James Barry Norton born around 1890. Records lost in fire in Lexington.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Norton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1759.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm unable to trace my New Jersey Norton family beyond the mid-1700's. Since they married many Germans and were apparently part of the German community, we wonder if they were German immigrants who changed their name to Norton. Does anyone know if immigrants commonly changed their name to Norton during this time frame?

This is my annual querry. Is anyone out there researching Elias Norton. I believe his wife was Elizabeth. They lived in Gwinnett County, GA in 1820, I think in the Hog Mountain District. They were from SC as far as I can tell. We are descendants of their daughter, Rebecca. Thanks Rose

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Norton, Elkinton, Butler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1762.1 Message Board Post: Henry and Artimesia Jane (Butler) Norton were my great grandparents ........my grandfather being their son Charles (Charley) Francis Norton born May 1870.....a twin to Lydia. I have some dates and information of these people.....but also have some questions. Would like to correspond with you and compare data and exchange same if you are interested please email me at tomarro@msn.com thanks Marg Norton Root

Do any of you have ties to/info on Emory Norton, or his sister Melissa Norton, of Geauga Ohio, and Palatine IL? They were children of Lawren Norton of NY, OH and IL. Darlene C. Joyce, CGRS findmyfamilyplease.com _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1763 Message Board Post: Looking for any information about James and Lois norton of Portage wisconsin. I have found them but not enough of information. My father is Richard Eugene Norton born on June 6 1954 in Woodstock, Illinois and now lives in Portage Wisconisin by his mother and the rest of the eight childern that live around there. Any information would be nice for my research.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1762 Message Board Post: They are the parents of Mary Jane Norton who was born on October 15, 1868 near Lenexa, Kansas. She was one of 10 children. Does anyone else know this line.. Mary Jane Norton married Jaames Henry Elkington March 7, 1888. They had 4 children Edith, LeRoy, Nora, and Lester

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1761 Message Board Post: We are looking for our Benjamin Dawson NORTON b 1802/3 also his son Benjamin Dawson NORTON b 1827 and a daughter Charlotte b ? that came to South Australia in 1849 on the "NAVORNIA" ship we are told. The elder Benjamin married Mary CLEAVER the younger Benjamin married Lavina FORWOOD. Would really love to know more on this families and willing to share what we have on them.

Note: Forwarded Message ---- -----Original Message----- From: Wolfpaw81@aol.com [mailto:Wolfpaw81@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 8:27 PM To: NORTON-L-request@rootsweb.com Cc: rcdev@buggs.net Subject: William D. Norton and Josephine Green (Alabama) My cousin and I are researching our grandfather's family and have hit lots of brick walls. I haven't posted anything to the Norton site in ages, so thought we'd try again with the little we have to go on. If anybody is researching this family, we'd be thrilled to share what little information we have. William and Josephine lived in Alabama when our grandfather, Frank Brazwell, Sr. (also sometimes spelled Braswell) was born on April 2, 1891. (died March, 1964). Frank Sr. was the youngest of four children. His older sisters were Ruby, Jewell and Pearl. Ruby married Harvey Sparks and lived in Birmingham. We know nothing about the other two girls. Frank Sr. married our grandmother Gene Watson and had three children. Hope to hear from somebody, anybody! Our foreheads are bloody from pounding it on that old geneology brick wall! Thanks, Susan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1760 Message Board Post: Some Norton groups are beginning DNA testing. I am seeking male decendents of John Norton of Bourbon, KY; James Norton of Greenup, KY and David Norton of Pendleton, KY to join us in establishing our DNA signature. Other Norton's are welcome as well. Some Norton's of NC and SC are setting up a testing program as well. All Norton's are welcome. I will be setting up a Norton DNA page at www.nortonfamily.net for comparison.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1759.1 Message Board Post: I know of two Nortons. Norton's of Shapenhoe. This family in Normandy was called deNorville. (North village) He came to England with William the Conqueror and was reported to be a sheriff (tax collector). CT was settled in a large part this family of Norton's as well as parts of MASS. A 2nd line is the Norton's of York that produced Fletcher Norton, speaker of the House of Commons during the American Revolution. This line of Norton's actually goes back to Egbertus Congniers from Normandy. His decendant (Roger or Robert ) married Margaret Norton who fromt he Sharpenhoe Norton's. Margaret inherited Norton lands and Roger took the title/name of Norton. This Norton line became very prominent marrying into the Royal lines of Scotland and England. When Henry VIII invented the English church the Norton's remained loyal to Catholicism. This lead to a revolt against Elizabeth in 1579 and 8 Norton's were marytered. One Norton, Edmund stayed faithfull to Elizabeth and this line produced Fletcher Norton. The other lines in large part emigrated to America before 1700. One line moved to Spanish Flanders and was supported by the King of Spain as they tried to arrange a royal marriage to replace Elizabeth. More info can be found at www.nortonfamily.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Norton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1759 Message Board Post: Is this one of those names that originated simultaneously in several places, i.e. "of the north town", or is there a common origin Norton ancestor? And how far back has anyone found records? I've found a 14th century John Norton, nothing earlier. I'd be interested in any thoughts on this.