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    Norton, George

    Male Abt 1648 - 1715  (~ 67 years)


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    • Name Norton, George 
      Born Abt 1648  Of Abbott's Leigh, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 25 Apr 1715  Abbott's Leigh, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I09882  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 11 Jun 2015 

      Father Norton, George,   b. 31 Jan 1622, Of Abbott's Leigh, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 29.02.1667/68, Abbott's Leigh, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Mother Owen, Ellen,   c. 6 Jun 1622, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1667  (Age ~ 44 years) 
      Married Abt 1648  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F02818  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Freke, Frances,   b. Abt 1645, Of Harrington, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 20 Feb 1730/31, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 86 years) 
      Family ID F03128  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
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        "Near this place lies interred the body of Sir George Norton of Abbots Leigh in ye County of Somerset, son of Sir George Norton of the same place so eminently loyal in hazarding both his life and fortune by concealing in his house the sacred person of out late most gracious Sovereign, King Charles ye Second, till he could provide means for his escape into France and by his virtuous and Pious Dame Frances Norton, this monument is erected to his memory. He dyed the XXVIth day of April MDCCXV in the LXVIIth yeare of his age. He married Frances the daughter of Ralph Freke of Hamington in the County of Wilts Esq.; by whom he had issue three children, George, Grace and Elizabeth; the first and last dyed young; Grace married as ye monument in the Church expresseth."