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This is the Last Will and Testament of me Robert Nurse of the Parish of St. George in the County of Gloucester, Licensed Victualler and Maltster.

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.

In a previous article I described the Etymological origins of the surname Nurse.  In this article I will describe my research on the geographical distribution of the name.

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).

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.