Desire Norton

Brief Life History of Desire

Desire Norton was born in 1664, in Vineyard Haven, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She married Robert Luce in 1689, in Vineyard Haven, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1703, in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 39.

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Family Time Line

Robert Luce
1667–1711
Desire Norton
1664–1703
Marriage: 1689
Judith Luce
1689–1730
Henry Martin Luce
1690–1769
Samuel Luce
1692–1760
Jonathan Luce
1696–1763
Desire Luce
1699–
Mary Luce
1701–1761
Mercy Luce
1703–1780

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  • Legacy NFS Source: Desire Norton - Published information: birth-name: Desire Norton
  • U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
  • Legacy NFS Source: Desire Norton - Individual or family possessions: death:

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Name Meaning

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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