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From: Shelley Parr Heilman <>
Subject: Re: de GREENE/la ZOUCHE
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 16:20:41 -0800


Capon wrote:
>
> >Shelley,
> >
> >I am descended from John Greene the Surgeon who has a probable descent
> >from the De Greenes of Norton Greene (?). I say probable because a lot of
> >it comes from 19th century genealogists and I have no other proof for it.
> >Give me a bit of time to look through my notes and then I can share some
> >info with you.
> >
> >Elizabeth Ernst
> >
> >
> >
> >Elizabeth and Shelley,
>
> Hope you don't mind me butting in on this conversation. From the little I
> know of it you may not mean Nortongreen. That is a villiage or hamlet on the
> Isle of Wight. You may mean Greens Norton in Nothamptonshire. That is a nice
> little villiage with a very long history. I would suppose that a family of
> some antiquity would have the villiage named after them as in Greens Norton,
> rather than a villiage or hamlet which was the green of the North or maybe
> Norse town. This is particularly as Nortongreen is very close to another
> villiage on the Isle of Wight called Norton.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Richard

Richard,

Yes, my information shows Green's Norton. Thank you.

Shelley

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