FAMILY HISTORY: NORRIS

THE LIFE OF HUGH NORRIS

MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS AND BURIAL RECORDS:

 

MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS:
"...Also in memory of Hugh Norris,
Mill House End, and son of the above named John Norris,
who departed this life October 23rd 1868, aged 74 years..."
[Partial Inscription. Hugh is buried in the churchyard at Croston with his parents and other family members]

 

DEATH NOTICE:
"On Friday, October 23rd, at Southport, aged 74 years, Hugh Norris, Esq., brother to Thomas Norris Esq., Howick House."
(From 'The Preston Guardian', Saturday, 31 October 1868)

 

BURIAL RECORDS:

No. 2101:

Buried 8 September 1863, Ann Singleton of Croston, age 72 years, Roman Catholic.

No. 2345:

Buried 29 October 1868, Hugh Norris of Southport, age 74 years, by Oswald Master, Rector.

 

NOTES:
1: For the full Monument Inscription see the page regarding Robert Caunce Norris' burial.
2: Ann Singleton is buried in an unmarked grave elsewhere in the churchyard.
3: The above information is taken from the headstone, Burial Registers for St Michael and All Angel's Church held at the Lancashire Record Office, and microfilmed newspapers at the Harris Library in Preston.

 


His Life Baptism Records Census Returns Info. from Wills