Person:George Norman (18)

George Norman was born in 1838 at Husborne Crawley in Bedfordshire, son of a lace maker called Mary Norman, formerly Lewis, and her husband Richard Norman, an agricultural labourer. George was the eldest of their seven children. He appears in both the 1841 and 1851 censuses living with his parents and siblings in Husborne Crawley.

George was the first of the Norman brothers to leave home, and also the first to work in engineering. Sometime between 1851 and 1861 he left Husborne Crawley and moved to Wolverton in Buckinghamshire.

The 1861 census find him an engine fitter boarding with the family of James & Charlotte Hall at Wolverton. James, from Calverton, was then a factory labourer. Another lodger in the same house, Joseph Parker, was an engine turner from Husborne Crawley. They may have been employed at the LNWR railway works, where James was certainly working in 1881.

In the final quarter of 1862 George married his landlord's daughter, Maria Charlotte Hall, having three children with her before his early death. He died on 13th October 1867 at Wolverton Road in Stony Stratford, aged 28. He was buried at Holy Trinity church in Wolverton. His parents both survived him.

The 1871 census finds Maria and her three children in Queen Street, Wolverton at her parents' house. She died the following year leaving the orphaned children to be raised by their grandparents.

By 1881 the family had moved to Wolverton Road, Wolverton.

Sarah Charlotte was then a dressmaker, Edward James George a shop boy and Henry Charles a scholar. Both boys died a few years later without having married. Their sister married Joseph George Henry King, a joiner from Aylesbury, in 1886. In 1891 they, with 2 daughters and 1 son, were living at Aylesbury Street, Wolverton. However, Sarah died shortly afterwards in 1893. Joseph later remarried and their second daughter Winifred (born 1890) was still living at home in 1911, then sewing coach linings. Ellen Sarah (1888) and Henry Norman (1891) were no longer at home by then. Ellen married in 1909. Henry died in Iraq on 8 June 1916, a private in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry and is commemorated on the Basra memorial.

1. ↑ Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. George NORMAN, December Quarter 1838, Woburn Registration District, Volume 6, page 107, mother's maiden name Lewis

2. ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast).

   ch. 14 Jul 1839, Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire: George / Richard & Mary / Norman

3. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 5; Book 20; Folio 3; Page 1, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Church End, Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire
   George Lewis, male, 60 [1776-81], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], not born in county
   Mary Lewis, female, 60 [1776-81], not born in county
   Henry Lewis, male, 7 [1833/4], born in county
   ~second household in the same house~
   Rich[ar]d Norman, male, 25 [1811-16], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
   Mary Norman, female, 25 [1811-16], born in county
   George Norman, male, 2 [1838/9], born in county
   Edward Norman, male, 1 [1839/40], born in county

4. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1755; Folio 72; Page 21, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Long End, Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire
   Richard Norman, head, married, male, 37 [1813/14], Agricultural Labourer, b. Crawley, Bedfordshire
   Mary Norman, wife, married, female, 39 [1811/12], b. Crawley, Bedfordshire
   George Norman, son, male, 12 [1838/9], Agricultural Labourer, b. Crawley, Bedfordshire
   Edward Norman, son, male, 10 [1840/1], Scholar, b. Crawley, Bedfordshire
   Susan Norman, daughter, female, 9 [1841/2], Scholar, b. Crawley, Bedfordshire
   Fredr[ic]k Norman, son, male, 6 [1844/5], Scholar, b. Crawley, Bedfordshire
   Henry Norman, son, male, 3 [1847/8], b. Crawley, Bedfordshire
   Alfred Norman, son, male, 1 [1849/50], b. Crawley, Bedfordshire

5. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 929; Folio 56; Page 13, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Wolverton, Buckinghamshire
   James Hall, head, married, male, 41 [1819/20], Labourer Factory, b. Calverton, Buckinghamshire
   Charlotte Hall, wife, married, female, 40 [1820/1], Dress Maker, b. Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire
   Maria C. Hall, daughter, unmarried, female, 17 [1843/4], Dress Maker, b. Old Wolverton, Buckinghamshire
   George Norman, boarder, unmarried, male, 22 [1838/9], Engine Fitter, b. Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire
   Joseph Parker, boarder, unmarried, male, 22 [1838/9], Engine Turner, b. Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire

6. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. George NORMAN, December Quarter 1867, Potterspury Registration District, Volume 3b, page 19, aged 28 [1838/9]

7. ↑ Buckinghamshire Family History Society. Buckinghamshire Burials Database.

   bur. 16 Oct 1867, Holy Trinity, Wolverton, Buckinghamshire: George Norman, aged 28 [1838/9]

8. ↑ Bicester Herald, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 8, 18 Oct 1867.

   DEATHS.
   October 13, at Wolverton Road, Stony Stratford, aged 28, Mr. George Norman, engine-fitter.