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Martin Norford
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April 98
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Re; Norford / Narford / Nerford Genealogy
Probable Origins - Source P.H. Reaney The Origins of English Surnames page 331
Place name, after original village
dictionary of Place Names
NARFORD Norfolk England
NEREFORDA in Doomsday Book
The Place Names of Narborough and NARFORD are close together on the small
river NAR
Near kings lynn and Norwich in The county of Norfolk
The rivers name is a “Late-Back Formation” of NERE derived from the Old
English for
Narrow place to pass
NEREFORDA=Ford at Narrow place to pass
Other Spellings;-
NORFORD 1560
NARFORD 1561
NERFORD 1584
NERFERD 1584
Note in old hand written text the e a and o are very similar
Reference Form Infopedia UK96
Narford (or Nerford , or Nereford ), Robert (d. 1225) , constable of Dover
Castle Kent UK;
received grants, 1216; became chief constable of Dover; present at the defeat
of Eustace the
Monk, 1217; founded the priory of St Mary de Pratis.
Norford, William (1715-1793) , medical writer; surgeon at Halesworth and Bury
St Edmunds;
wrote on cancer, intestinal obstruction, and intermittent fevers.
Lineage - Burkes Dormant/Extinct Peerages Printed 1883
NEREFORD - BARON NEREFORD
This Sets Out The Lineage which with more local detail is;-
Alfach a Saxon of Nereforda
Phaceon
Daughter marries a Norman Invader after1066 who is now called William de (0f)
Nerford
Geoffrey de Nerford (B = 1125)
Geoffery son of Geoffrey de Nerford (D = 1207?)
Sir Peter / Piers de Nerford (1180? - 1239)
Sir Piers de Nerford (D = 1262?)
Sir William de Nerford (1250? - 1301/2) Also Written as Sir William de Norford
(coat of
arms) as above
Sir Thomas de Nerford (1295 - 1344)
Sir John de Nerford ( 1335 - 1365)
Margery (1360 - 1417) End of main line, was forced to marry under age (5),
Divorce give by the Pope
(all England was Catholic at this time) Become a nun at a London Church now
the site of the Bank of England. All inheritances were conveyed to her cousin
Sir John de Cobham of Cooling castle Kent UK . No record of her having any
childern
The family name was continued on via the Two piers/Peters at Shotesham a
parish just south of
Norwich UK with;-
John Narford (B = Between 1520 - 1540 very approx.)
and his son John Norford ( 1575-1611) I have a copy of his will.
John Norford a Yeomam (?-1661)
Nicholus Norford ( ?-1670)
Thomas Norford
John Norford (9 Feb 1695/6-?)
Edward Norford See Below
Emigration
In 1757 Edward Norford a gardener (9.7.1735 - 1812 Hadliegh Suffolk) married
His First Wife
Sarah Bond( Died 1778 )
The Eldest Daughter was a Sarah (15 Nov 1761- ?)
A son William (7 Aug 1757 - ?) who is said to have emigrated to America
Another Son John may well have emigrated like his brother, but to Australia
Another Daughter was Mary (15 Nov 1761-1782) and a Twin Edward (2 Feb 1764 -
?)
Edward Norford remarried in 1779 and had a further 10 children ( none named
John )+ ( At least
5 Died very young ) of which a Robert Norford (28 May 1797 - 14 July 1858) was
my ancestor.
Regards
Martin