Birth: January-March 1858 Smethwick, Staffordshire, UK
Father: Alfred Norton 1834-1890
Mother: Ellen Jackson 1837-1900
Christening: 26 December 1858 North Harborne, Staffordshire, UK
Marriage: 4 June 1887 St Peter, Harborne, Staffordshire, UK
Wife: Ada Eliza Newman 1864-1954
Death: 20 May 1933 Stockland Hotel, Stockland Green, Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, UK
Ewart Stanley Norton 1895-1968
Eric Newman Norton 1889-1960
Edward Clifford Norton 1901-1980
Birth of Edward James Norton in FreeBMD in January-March 1858 in Kings Norton (6c 459).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Edward James Norton on 26 December 1858 in North Harborne, Stafford, parents Alfred and Ellen Norton).
In the 1861 census as Edward James Norton aged 3, born in Smethwk (sic), Staffordshire, and living with his parents (Alfred and Ellen), brother (Alfred Alyne), his grandmother (Hannah Jackson) and a lodger (Elizabeth Jacksons aged 19, born in Smethwick, Staffordshire, single and a glass smother) in Harborne Lane, Harborne, Staffordshire.
In the 1871 census as Edward Norton aged 13, born in Smethwick, Staffordshire, and living with his parents (Alfred and Ellen), brother (Alfred), sister (Ama), and a relative (Hannah Jackson - his grandmother?) in Windmill Lane, Harborne, Staffordshire.
In the 1881 census as Edward J Norton aged 23, born in Harborne, Worcestershire, a jeweller,and living with his parents (Alfred and Ellen), brother (Alfred ), sister (Amy Beatrice), and a boarder (Edward Jackson aged 54, born in Harborne, Worcestershire, widowed and a bricklayer) at 200 Windmill Lane, Harborne, Staffordshire.
Mariage of Edward James Norton and Ada Newman in FreeBMD in April-June 1887 in Kings N (6c 607).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Edward James Norton aged 29, father Alfred Norton, and Ada Eliza Newman on 4 June 1887 in Harborne, Stafford.
Entry in Ancestry Birmingham, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of Edward James Norton aged 29, father Alfred Norton, and Ada Eliza Newman aged 23, father John Newman, on 4 June 1887 at Harborne, St Peter. "Page 244 1887 Marriage solemnized at Harborne in the Parish of Harborne in the County of Stafford. No. 488 June 4 Edward James Norton aged 29 a Bachelor and Jeweller of Harborne, father Alfred Norton, a Carter, and Ada Eliza Newman (a note on the left of the entry states that "Eliza" was added on 15 October 1927 in the presence of Edward James Norton and Ada Eliza Newman, the parties married), a Spinster of Harborne, father John Newman, a Machinist. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church [...] in the Presence of us John Newman, Hellie Newman and Mandy Newman".
In the 1891 census as Edward J Norton aged 32, born in Smethwick, Staffordshire, a jeweller, and living with his wife (Ada), son (Eric) and cousin (Albert Norton) at 42 Shireland Road, Harborne, Staffordshire.
In the 1901 census as Edward J Norton aged 43, born in Smethwick, Staffordshire a jeweller, and living with his wife (Ada), and two sons (Erie and Eward S) at 123 Corbett Street, Smethwick, Staffordshire.
In the 1911 census as Edward James Norton aged 53, born in Smethwick, Staffordshire, a jeweller, and living with his wife (Ada Eliza), and three sons (Edward Clifford, Eric Newman and Ewart Stanley) in five rooms at 128 Dibble Road, Smethwick, Worcestershire (sic - in the index).
Death of Edward J Norton in FreeBMD in April-June 1933 aged 75 in Birmingham (6d 56).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Edward James Norton died 20 May 1933 in Hampshire (sic - in the index), probate 19 July 1933 in London. "Norton Edward James of 105 Festing-grove Southsea, Hampshire died 20 May 1933 at the Stockland Hotel Stockland Green Erdington Birmingham Probate Birmingham 19 July to Albert John Brant schoolmaster and Eric Newman Norton licensed victualler. Effects £2360 6s. 10d."
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edward James Norton born in Smethwick, West Midlands in 1858, parents Alfred Norton and Ellen Jackson in one, his marriage to Ada Eliza Newman in Smethwick, West Midlands in 1887, one adding his three children, and his death in Smethwick, West Midlands in three, Birmingham, Warwickshire in the other in 1933.
Note that Smethwick was transfered from Staffordshire to Warwickshire in 1894 and became part of Birmingham in 1912.
Edward James Norton was the father of Ewart Stanley Norton, husband of Edith May Belton, Felicity's second cousin twice removed.
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