Trafford

Born on the 14th February 1880, the birth being registered during the March
quarter 1880 in the Walsall R.D. - ref: 6b/656, the son of Jabez & Mary Ann
Norton (nee Perry).

1881 Census - 69 Walsall Road, Darlaston, Staffordshire.    Son - aged: 1 -
born: Darlaston, Staffordshire.    Head of household - Jabez Norton -
Married - aged: 26 - occ: Engine Fitter - born: West Bromwich,
Staffordshire.   Also - Mary A. Norton - Wife - aged: 27 - born:
Wednesbury, Staffordshire.   Plus 1 elder sister and a lodger.

1891 Census - 39 Walsall Road, Darlaston, Staffordshire.    Son - aged: 11
- Scholar - born: Darlaston, Staffordshire.    Head of household - Jabez
Norton - Married - aged: 36 - occ: Engine Fitter & Die Sinker - born: West
Bromwich, Staffordshire.   Also - Mary A. Norton - Wife - aged: 37 - born:
Wednesbury, Staffordshire.   Plus 2 siblings.

1901 Census - 31 Sparrows Forge Road, Wednesbury, Staffordshire.   Son -
Unmarried - aged: 21 - occ: Patternmaker Wood - born: Darlaston,
Staffordshire.    Head of household - Jabez Norton - Married - aged: 46 -
occ: Die Sinker - born: West Bromwich, Staffordshire.   Also - Mary A.
Norton - Wife - aged: 47 - born: Wednesbury, Staffordshire.   Plus 2
siblings.

Married Nellie Wright during the September quarter 1908 in the Barton on
Irwell R.D. - ref: 8c/1229.

1911 Census - 60 Firwood Avenue, Urmston Lane, Stretford.    Head - Married
- aged: 31 - occ: Wood Patternmaker - born: Darlaston, Staffordshire.   
Also - Nellie Norton - Wife - aged: 25 - born: Stretford.    Plus 1 son -
Kenneth Norton who would eventually have to identify his family's bodies.

His mother Mary Ann, died in 1904 - aged: 51 and in 1911, his father -
Jabez, married a Sarah Ada Perry (Mary Ann's sister perhaps???).   Jabez
died in 1938 - aged: 83.

1939 National Registration - 90 Urmston Lane, Stretford.   Arthur S. Norton
- Married - Born: 14th February 1880 - occ: Engineer's Pattern Maker. 
Nellie Norton - Married - Born: 25th February 1886 - occ: Unpaid Domestic
Duties.   Irene Norton - Single - Born: 6th November 1916 - occ: Cost Clerk
Makers & Confectioner.   Frank M. Norton - Single - Born: 5th June 1919 p-
occ: Despatch & Shipping Clerk, Cable Manufacturer.   There was one
redacted record  at this address - presumably this was their daughter -
Joyce Norton b.1922.

CWD Report No. 82.   Died at 90 Urmston Lane, Stretford, from where his
body was recovered at 10.00 hrs on the 24th December 1940 and taken to the
City Road Mortuary, Old Trafford.     His body was identified by his son -
Kenneth Norton, 195 Winchester Road, Urmston and released for burial to the
Council's Undertaker Contractor - R. Pepperdine, 31 Ayres Road, Old
Trafford.     Described as being 5 feet 9 inches in height, of large build
and grey hair.    Employed as a Pattern Maker

Arthur's wife and their two daughters died also died in this incuident.    
Kenneth Norton was their eldest son - born in 1909.

Buried 30/12/1940 - Burial No. 17,876.

CWGC - of 90 Urmston Lane. Son of Ada Norton, of 58 Wood Street, Fallings
Heath, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and of the late Jabez Norton; husband of
Nellie Norton. Died at 90 Urmston Lane.