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/21.1269.1439 Message Board Post: This is a message I just posted. After that I found your answer to my 1999 inquiry. My great-grandfather George Joshua Norton had a son, William Henry Norton, born in Mt. Pinson or Pinson, Tennessee, Madison County. Where was your George Norton born? Fred Norton When I was growing up, I thought Norton was a rare and unique name. Boy, was I wrong. They are some of the most prolific I have tried to research. Anyway, I am Fredrick (Fred) Donald Norton, born in Los Amgeles, California in 1931. I am the only Californian in my parents family. My brother, Edgar Dale Norton b. 1915, and my two oldest sisters, Lorene Ella Norton (Kelley) b. 1917, and Irene Velma Norton (Cromwell & Wright) b. 1919 were born in New Mexico. My youngest sister, Ruth Louise Norton (Smith) b. 1921 in Oklahoma. My father was Chester Dale Norton, born in 1894 in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Oklahoma. Died in California My grandfather was William Henry Norton, Born in Tennessee in 1859 and raised in Arkansas. Died in California My great-grandfather was George Joshua Norton, born in 1832 or 1834 in Tennessee. Died in Arkansas. The 1850 Tennessee census for Maison County gives my great-great-grandmothers name as Morning Norton, apparently a widow, born in 1807 in Virginia. I think her husband, my great-great grandfather may have been Henry Norton form Virginia, and may have been born just before 1800. My father's brother was Roy Norton, Who was born in Arkansas, and lived most of his life in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area. It's very difficult to go back further or make the England connection. My father always said the Nortons came over early to Virginia, maybe in the 1600s. If any one has a connection to any of these, I would appreciate them contacting me. Fred Norton E-mail: frednorton@tenforward.com