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From: "Brad Verity" <>
Subject: Re: Descents From Edward III For Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, 3rd Baronet
Date: 6 Apr 2007 15:50:29 -0700
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On Apr 6, 2:13 pm, "wjhonson" <> wrote:

> Brad, Richard Norton has a DNB entry in which it specifies his NINE
> sons who all apparently survived him or at least made it to
> adulthood. I don't recall it mentioning any daughters, but of course
> that isn't any proof that he didn't have any.

Dear Will,

Norton and his first wife Susan Neville (b. 1501, not 1500 as I have
in the descent line) had about a half dozen daughters or so. Stirnet
or Tudor Place ought to have a list of them.

> To date I haven't found very much useful on tracing the descents of
> this family,

Fletcher Norton, 1st Lord Grantley, is a direct male-line descendant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Norton%2C_1st_Baron_Grantley

> but I would note the your above, makes Jane, in my
> database at least the *critical path* to her parents. Jane Norton
> must have been born sometime between 1513 and 1537 chronologically for
> the line to work, which puts a much stricter limit on her parents
> marriage and her siblings births.

I'll have to check my Visitation pedigrees of the family when I get
home late tonight. Unfortunately, the Nortons skipped the 1530
Visitation, which means we won't get a family snapshot until 1552 at
the earliest.

> I would appreciate any data allowing a firmer dating for this family
> and their children.

One of their Nevill of Latimer uncles left a will and mentions several
of them (I have a copy of it at home). That could provide some kind
of time parameter, but I'm afraid determining a chronology will be
difficult for them until the 1550s.

> Richard Norton, by the way, died 9 Apr 1588
> "abroad, probably in Flanders" he was the eldest son of John Norton
> of Norton Conyers by his wife Anne de Radcliffe.
> Although this line goes back through several generations of Norton
> Conyers and to Tempest of Studley I haven't yet found a royal link for
> Richard.

He certainly was not descended from Edward I. Monarchs prior to that,
I don't know.

Cheers, -----------Brad

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