When Margaret Norton was born on 22 May 1784, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States, her father, Mercer Norton, was 34 and her mother, Martha Higgins, was 34. She married James A Thompson on 5 December 1804, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Perry, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died on 17 April 1857, in Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Perry, Illinois, 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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