1599 Church warden of the parish

Nicholas Norton, the father of the emigrant, removed from White Lackington with his father when a child, and died there at the age of 54 years (1616) as described in the chancery suit.

That he was a man above the average is shown by the fact of his occupying the position of church warden of the parish (1599) but as the parish register does not exist prior to 1678 it is not possible at present to determine the names of but half of his eight children. The attested copies of parish registers then required by church law preserved the names of three of them and tghe chancedry suit furnishes the name of his eldest son. Unfortunately, the Bishops Transcripts of Broadway Parishy in the Diosceasan Registry at Wells for the years 1609-11 inclusive, the particular years in which we should undoubtedly find the baptism of our Nicholas whose birth fell, as we know, within those years are missing from the files.

His known children are as follolws:
I. John, b. abt 1590
II. Joan, bur. 1598
III. James, bur. 1678 at Broadway
IV. Joawph, bapt. 3 Feb 1607
V. Nicholas, b. 1610 (the emigrant). He deposed in 1676 aged 66 years.
VI. Elizabeth, bapt. 1613