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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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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