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We Ann Nurse and Robert Willis Nurse agree to sell the stock and fixtures book debts etc of the late Robert Nurse in relation to the malting business carried on at Hanham Green and as valued by William Fricks Son and Company on the 10th October 1876 as under and


The eldest son of Baron Norreys was Sir John Norris. He was born about 1547 to Sir Henry and his wife Margery. Sir John was considered the most accomplished soldier of his day and was a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth


Henry Norris was the son of Sir Henry Norris and Mary Fiennes, daughter of Thomas Fiennes. His mother had died before his father was executed so he was raised by his unclue Sir John Norreys, but details of his early life are obscure. In 1539 Henry VIII restored his patrimony and allowed his uncle to settle his estates on him when he died.


William Norreys was the eldest son of John Norreys and his first wife Lady Alice Merbrook. William was probably born at Yattendon Castle in about 1441.


Sir John Norreys was a high ranking Lancastrian. He was born in about 1400 the son of William Norreys Esquire of Ockwells Manor and Christina Stretch. He is said to have been a descendant of the le Norreys (de Noers) family who settled in England after the Norman Invasion.


Pennsylvania Governor Patrick Gordon was my 7th great grandfather. Patrick Gordon was born in Aberdeen in 1664, to John Gordon and Christian Smyth, being baptised on 1st March at St. Nicholas, Aberdeen.3,4 He was 1 of 9 children (6 boys and 3 girls).


The surname Nurse is derived from the same origins as the related names Nursey, Nourse, Norrish, Nurrish, Nowers, Norreys, Norrie and Norris, with the last being the form most common in recent times.

Only a few families can truly trace their surnames to the “Domesday Book”, and even fewer can go back even tentatively to the pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon era. The only families that have been able to prove an ancestry to Anglo-Saxon ancestors are the Arderns from Aelfwine and the Berkleys from Eadnoth.


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