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”.