Norris plot

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Plot number (FHS)	400
Row	18
Section	147
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Norris plot

Plot number:
18,147
Family name:
Norris
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Elizabeth Anne Norris

1827 –14/06/1909

Mother of local historian Richard Arthur Norris

1827 –14/06/1909

Mother of local historian Richard Arthur Norris

Relatives

Richard Robinson Norris (400) — husband

Ethelwynne Maude Norris — daughter

Jessie Bertha Andrew — daughter

Lilla Mary Norris — daughter

Henrietta Norah Norris (381) — daughter

Richard Arthur Norris — son

Research:

Robin McMorran

Elizabeth Anne Norris née Dixon was born in 1827 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, the daughter of James Dixon and Mary Ann Larner.

She married Richard Robinson Norris and they had 6 children:

Jesse Bertha Norris (1858 – 1951)
Henrietta Norah Norris (1863 – 1925)
Richard Arthur Norris (1860 – 1937)
George Murray Norris (1861 – ?)
Lilla Mary Norris (1857 – 1921)
Ethelwynne Maud Norris (d.1958)

Elizabeth died on 14 June 1909 in Berkhamsted.

Richard Robinson Norris (400)

d.04/08/1904

Owner of the Lower Mill, father to historian R.A. Norris

d.04/08/1904

Owner of the Lower Mill, father to historian R.A. Norris

Relatives

Elizabeth Anne Norris — wife

Ethelwynne Maude Norris — daughter

Jessie Bertha Andrew — daughter

Lilla Mary Norris — daughter

Henrietta Norah Norris (381) — daughter

Richard Arthur Norris — son

Research:

Robin McMorran

Richard Robinson Norris was a Quaker who owned the Lower Mill on London Road/Bank Mill Lane (now The Old Mill).

He married Elizabeth Anne Dixon and they had 6 children:

Jesse Bertha Norris (1858 – 1951)
Henrietta Norah Norris (1863 – 1925)
Richard Arthur Norris (1860 – 1937)
George Murray Norris (1861 – ?)
Lilla Mary Norris (1857 – 1921)
Ethelwynne Maud Norris (d.1958)

Norris was one of the founder members of the Berkhamsted Mechanics’ Institute, an organisation set up to promote literacy and learning among the working classes. His son Richard Arthur followed in his footsteps, becoming a long-standing member of the Institute, and was elected president twice. Richard Arthur’s name is known today among local historians as the author of an acclaimed history of the parish church, The Parish Church of Berkhamsted, St. Peter, Hertfordshire (1923).

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