983.Christopher Norton. Christopher died aft 1603.11
984.Margaret Norton.
985.Henry Norton. Born ca 1571 in Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire. Henry was baptized in Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire, on 21 Jun 1571.
Henry, the eldest son and heir of Thomas and Margaret (Cranmer) Norton, of Sharpenhoe, Bedford, England. It is probably that he removed to Stepney, London, son after his marriage to his second wife, Sarah Lawson.82
986.Robert Norton. Born ca 1579 in Bedford, Bedfordshire. Robert was baptized in Blunhan, Bedfordshire, on 28 Jun 1579. Robert died ca 1635.11
Robert received settlement of the manor of Sharpenhoe from his brother Henry.11
Robert married Anna Hare.
Anna Hare (or Heare).
987.Elizabeth Norton. Born ca 1577 in Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire.11
988.Anne Norton. Born ca 1578 in Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire.
989.Thomas Norton. Born ca 1578 in Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire.11
990.Col. Walter Norton. Born ca 1580 in Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire.11 Walter died summer 1633.
From Chamberlain’s History of Weymouth:83
“Capt. Walter Norton was son of Thomas and Alice (Cranmer) Norton of the manor of Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire. His father was famous asa the author of Gorboduc, and married into the Cranmer family (his first wife being a daughter of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, and his second wife, the mother of our subject, being a daughter of the Archbishop’s brother.) Walter Norton was a soldier of fortune, and early became associated with Sir Ferdinando Gorges in his work in New England. Eh was probably among the members of the Gorges Company which arrived at Wessagussett about the middle of September, 1623. He was here before Winthrop arrived, and was selected with others to hold and inquest at Charlestown before Governor Winthrop and Isaac Johnson, Esq., on 18 Sept. 1630. He desired to be made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay colony, 19 Oct 1630, and was made a freeman, 18 May, 16631. (Register, 3:90.) The Council for New England granted 100 acres in Maine to him, Samuel Maverick, William Jefferyes and John Bursley, for each person that they would transport to New England within seven years, 2 Dec. 1631. In the Council records these men were described as ‘of New England.’ (Records of the Council for New England, American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, 1867, p. 101.) He was living at Agamenticus (York) in 1632, and sailed from thence with Capt. John Stone and John Oldham and three others. In the course of their voyage they were barbarously murdered by the Indians near the Comnecticut River. Governor Winthrop tells of this event on 21 Jan. 1633-34, and adds that Capt. Stone took Capt. Norton aboard at Agamenticus. He married (1) in England, Mrs. Jane (Reve) Reynolds, the mother of his children. He married (2) Eleanor ———, who survived him and married (2) William Hooke, an early Governor of the Province of Maine. William was the son of Humphrey Hooke, alderman of the city of Bristol, Eng., and was at York as early as 1633. He was styled ‘citizen and merchant of Bristol, England now of Agamenticus’ when he purchased one-third of a patent which had been granted to Humphrey Hooke in 1637. This was in 1638. He was one of the attorneys for Gorges in 1641, and removed to Salisbury in 1643. The inventory of his estate was taken 11 Apr. 1654.
“Mrs. Eleanor Hooke, late wife of Mr. William Hooke, deceased, petitioned to the General Court concerning his estate, 29 May, 1655. On the same day she petitioned ‘to make sale of lands at Accomenticus, now Yorke, that have been formerly appropriated to Capt. [Walterl Norton, heretofore hir husband,’ and the Court granted her power so to do. (Massachusetts Bay Colony Records, 4: Pt. 1, 234, 235.) She was plaintiff in a suit against Mr. John Alcocke, 16 Oct. 1660. She was living in Boston near 1667.”
Ca 1605 Walter first married Jane Reeve.16 Jane died ca 1618.16