When Ursley Norton was born on 13 January 1853, in Laurel, Franklin, North Carolina, United States, her father, George Norton, was 27 and her mother, Tabitha Gunter Gosnell, was 24. She had at least 1 daughter with Jim Norton. She lived in Madison, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and North Carolina, United States in 1870. Her occupation is listed as midwife in White Rock, Madison, North Carolina, United States. She died on 5 May 1929, in White Rock, Madison, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in White Rock, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
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