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From: Lloyd Norman <>
Subject: Re: [NORMAN-LIST] Re: Norman family of Norwell, Nottingham, England.
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:19:41 -0700
In-Reply-To: <dc.3b197bd.2d65dc91@aol.com>

What a refreshing e-mail to receive. You have obviously spent a great
deal of time in your researches, and it's nice to see it bearing the
fruits of your labour.
Thanks very much for your timely reply.
All the best.
Lloyd Norman
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 02:32 AM, wrote:

> Mr. Norman,
>
> Don't worry about reimbursing me for stamps, copying costs, etc. I'll
> be glad
> to pay that as part of the costs of learning more about my family. I
> have
> traced my part of the Norman family back for several decades, in one
> instance
> back to 1817.
>
> I'm just delighted to meet someone who may be part of my family,
> especially
> since I'm spent so much money and fruitless time and effort in trying
> to get
> around a roadblock. He is my great-great grandfather, Samuel Norman.
> Despite the
> best efforts of Colleen and two groups of professional genealogists,
> we can't
> discover the identity of Samuel's father and grandfather.
>
> Colleen and I are beginning to suspect that I may be part of the
> family of
> Joseph Lafayette Norman of Virginia. Joseph was born in England and
> immigrated
> to this country. He and his wife, Nellie, had eight children. The
> sixth was
> named Samuel.
>
> The author of a book on the Joseph Norman line, Patricia Hemphill,
> wrote that
> this Samuel married Nancy Green in 1804 and died in Illinois. We have
> LDS
> information that the Samuel who was my great-great grandfather was
> born in 1817.
> It would be within the proper time frame for Samuel One and Nancy
> Green to
> have Samuel Two in 1817.
>
> Samuel Two was the father of William Thomas Brown Norman, who in turn
> became
> the father of Neill S. Brown Norman, better known as "Nelus." His
> newspaper
> obit listed him as Nelus Norman.
>
> Nelus and his wife had three children. My Dad, Huey William Norman,
> was the
> youngest. I'm the only child resulting from the marriage of H. W.
> Norman and
> Vera Estelle Reed. My wife and I have two sons, ages 50 and 46, and one
> granddaughter, 11.
>
> We had concentrated our search for Samuel in Middle Tennessee. Colleen
> emailed me last night that she now is beginning to search census
> documents from Ohio
> and Illinois.
>
> Before she died in 1999, my mother, age 95, told me that W. T. Brown
> Norman
> came from "West Tennessee," and there is some documentation showing
> him living
> in Hardemann County, West Tennessee.
>
> To me, it seems possible that Samuel Two could have come down the Ohio
> and
> Mississippi rivers to Memphis, Tenn., and to have made his way through
> West
> Tennessee and into Middle Tennessee. I received Census documents
> yesterday showing
> Samuel Two and his family in Bedford and Maury counties, Tennessee, in
> 1850
> and 1860.
>
> His first wife, Jane (Unknown) seems to died in the 1850s. He
> remarried a
> rather wealthy widow several years older than himself and then
> disappeared in the
> 1860s. We need to research his role, if any, in the Civil War. There
> was one
> report of a First Sergeant Sam Norman serving in a Tennessee unit.
>
> It will take me a few days, but I will run off data on several
> generations of
> Norman which I have on Family Tree Maker and send it to you with many
> other
> documents. I hope you will find them useful.
>
> Any information you come across on Samuel's One and Two, I really will
> appreciate your sharing with me and Colleen.
>
> Thanks so much. I hope this is the start of a long correspondence
> which will
> help both of us learn more about who we are.
>
> Most Sincerely,
>
>
> Doug Norman
> 2093 North Berwick Drive
> Myrtle Beach, SC 29575.
>
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