The first reference to a Nurse family living in the Hanham Abbots area of Hanham was the baptism of William Dolman (Nors) son of Samuel Nors on 12th April 1778 at St. George's Hanham, a chapelry of the Parish of St Mary, Bitton.

As mentioned in the previous article, Samuel and his wife Rachel (nee Dolman) were married in the neighboring parish of Keynsham on the 11th October 1772. It has not been completely proven that this Samuel was the same Samuel that was baptised in Compton Dando, but a review of the evidence indicates that it was very likely.

In earlier blog posts I have discussed the origins of the Nurse name, and provided biographies of “famous” people with the name Nurse or its etymological cousin Norris.  In this post, I begin to describe the results of my research into my own Nurse ancestors.

It appears that my Nurse family ancestors settled in the Hanham Abbots area of Hanham towards the end of the eighteenth century, as there is no record of the family living in the parish of Hanham before that time.  According to Wikipaedia, “Hanham is a village near Bristol, England, situated on the A431 between Bristol,Bath and Keynsham”.