The Family of John Norris: Burial Records

MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS:

"Sacred to the memory of...
...Also of John Norris, of Mill House End, Croston,
who died January 12th 1830, aged 63 years.
Also of Jane Norris, wife of the above,
who departed this life February 11th, 1843, aged 78 years...

[For the full inscription see the burial records for Robert Caunce Norris.]

DEATH NOTICES:

"On Tuesday the 12th instant, Mr. John Norris, of Croston, aged 62, brother of Thomas Norris Esq., of Redvales, Bury."

(From 'The Preston Chronicle', Saturday, 23 January 1830)

"On Wednesday last, at Croston, aged 77, Mrs. Jane Norris, widow of the late Mr. John Norris."

(From 'The Preston Chronicle', Saturday, 18 February 1843)

BURIAL RECORDS:

Thomas, the third child of John and Ellen Norris, died on the 14th of November 1796, and was buried on the 16th of November 1796, aged 1 year. He was buried beneath the floor of St. Michael and All Angels Parish Church in Croston, at about the middle of the middle aisle. The Burial Register lists the cause of death as Worm Fever.

Margaret, the forth child of John and Ellen Norris, died on the 1st of August 1798, and was buried on the 2nd of August 1798, aged 1 year. She was buried beneath the floor of St. Michael and All Angels Parish Church in Croston, about the middle of the middle aisle. The Burial Register lists the cause of death as Small Pox.

Ellen, the first wife of John Norris, farmer, of Croston, died on the 11th of January 1807, almost exactly one month after the birth of their ninth child, and was buried on the 13th of January 1807. She was buried on the south side of the churchyard at St. Michael and All Angels Parish Church in Croston. The cause of death is not stated in the Burial Register, but may have been related to the birth of her son John Norris Jr. on 12 December 1806.

John Norris, farmer, of Mill House End, Croston, son of Hugh and Ann Norris, died on the 12th of January 1830 and was buried on the 16th of January 1830. The Burial Register at St. Michael and All Angels Parish Church in Croston does not state where he is buried, but the gravestone is on the east side of the churchyard. The cause of death is also not stated in the Burial Register.

NOTES:
1:	Robert Caunce Norris was John's cousin and the first to be buried in the Norris family vault, which contains the remains of at least seven members of the Norris family.
2:	John and Ellen's two infant children were buried in a family vault beneath the floor of the church but these burials had to be stopped as they were undermining the foundations of the church and the church tower was beginning to lean.
3:	The above information is taken from the headstones and from the Burial Records of St Michael and All Angel's Church held on microfiche at the Lancashire Record Office.