From: mlou1173@aol.com > Hi all.......being from the U.S. I'm not aware of who GRAHAM NORTON > is, nor can I get the program over here. However, one of my > gg-grandmother's was born RACHEL NORTON in Barnsley and am wondering > if there may be a connection. Slight chance, I'm sure....but you > never know! > > Can someone fill me in on Graham's ancestry, please.> Oh, really, Marylou! How long have you been on this and other Yorkshire mailing lists??? You know perfectly well that the first thing I always say to queries like yours from newcomers is LOOK AT GOOGLE! But you are not a newcomer. A moment's homework with Google would have told you that Graham Norton is a very famous TV presenter in the UK and he is also openly homosexual. His ancestry is Irish. I am rather surprised at your query, since you of all people know perfectly well how to use Google. Just find his entry at Wikopedia. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Hi Graham Norton isn't just Irish - apparently, from what I heard of the programme, his father, Billy Walker's, ancestors were originally from South Yorkshire, and the Wentworth area, working on the Earl of Fitzwilliam's estate. So Graham is in part a Yorkshire man, in genealogical terms. This is significant for me, because I have a long line of Walkers from that exact spot, Elsecar, Scholes, Barnsley...they are very deeply rooted in the locality - in fact during the 19c, they seemed to own most of the pubs in the area! And every Walker I have come across in the locality has been related - there doesn't seem to be unconnected Walkers living as a separate entity line. So I hope I can be forgiven for wanting to find out more what was said on the BBC programme! The other weird thing is that - apparently - Graham said he chose the name Norton as it was a family name, rather than use Walker. But I don't know which side of his family it was from... At the end of the 19c, one of my Walkers married a Norton, from a Norton family based in the village of Hoyland, next to the Fitzwilliam estate - although I think that was too recent to tie that to Graham....but there might be another link there somewhere, if that is where his Norton name is from. Sue On 12/10/07 10:53 pm, "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> wrote: > From: mlou1173@aol.com > >> Hi all.......being from the U.S. I'm not aware of who GRAHAM NORTON >> is, nor can I get the program over here. However, one of my >> gg-grandmother's was born RACHEL NORTON in Barnsley and am wondering >> if there may be a connection. Slight chance, I'm sure....but you >> never know! >> >> Can someone fill me in on Graham's ancestry, please.> > > Oh, really, Marylou! How long have you been on this and other Yorkshire > mailing lists??? > > You know perfectly well that the first thing I always say to queries like > yours from newcomers is LOOK AT GOOGLE! But you are not a > newcomer. A moment's homework with Google would have told you that > Graham Norton is a very famous TV presenter in the UK and he is also > openly homosexual. His ancestry is Irish. > > I am rather surprised at your query, since you of all people know perfectly > well how to use Google. Just find his entry at Wikopedia. > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies > Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message