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Several secondary sources state that Richard's wife was "Margaret Alford." However, there appears to be no credible evidence to support that identification since the baptismal records for five of Richard's six known children identify their mother as "Florence."
References
- ↑ Richard Norman, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
2:1335.
Richard Norman married "By about 1612 _____ _____; on 9 July 1645 the 'wife of Richard Norman Sr.' testified in court [EQC 1:82]; no further record. (Two women by the name of Arabella Norman were admitted to Salem church, one in May 1637 and the other on 25 February 1637/8 [SChR 6, 7]. One of these is certainly the wife of John Norman, son of Richard. The second is probably a clerical error, but just might be the wife of Richard Sr.)"
Anderson's estimate for the date of their marriage is about five years later than indicated by the subsequent discovery of the baptisms of their first five children.
- ↑ Mahler, Leslie. The English Origin of Richard1 Norman of Salem, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr 2002)
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"The village of Charminster, co. Dorset, is just to the north of Dorchester, and this is where Richard's children were baptized in a church that dates from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The entries show that his wife was named Florence, but if they were married in Charminster, the record does not survive, as the church registers and Bishops' Transcripts are both missing the marriages from 1598 to 1605."
"Another recent account of this family can be found in Burton W. Spear, ed., Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630, 18: West Country Ancestries, 1620-1643 (Toledo, Ohio, 1992), 102-3, which uses (with a note of caution) the poorest available source: Raymon Meyers Tingley, Some Ancestral Lines … (Rutland, Vt., 1935), 256-58. Tingley has Richard1 as the son of a John Fryeth alias Norman of Ipswich, Suffolk, which is in a completely different part of England. Tingley also gave Richard a non-existent son named William."
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