Ancestrees
Sir Edward NORRIS
1551 - 1603 (52 years)
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Name Sir Edward NORRIS [1, 2] Birth 22 Apr 1551 Bray Castle, Wytham, Rycote, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom 
[3] Gender Male Death 1 Sep 1603 died Englefield, Berkshire England; buried St Andrew Holborn, London, England [2] Burial Englefield, West Berkshire Unitary Authority, Berkshire, England [2] Person ID I10546 Ancestrees Last Modified 7 Sep 2024
Father Sir William NORREYS, b. 1523, Fifield House, Bray, Berkshire, England d. 16 Apr 1591, Fifield House, Bray, Berkshire, England (Age 68 years) Relationship natural Mother Mary FORTESCUE, b. 1522, Preston, Ermington, Devon, England, United Kingdom d. 9 Aug 1592, Fifield House, Bray, Berkshire (Age 70 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1546 Berkshire, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom [3, 4] Family ID F2703 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary MORE, b. 25 Dec 1553, West Riding, Yorkshire, , England d. 1605, St Dunstan in the West, London, England (Age 51 years) Marriage 17 Jul 1600 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England Family ID F2583 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Sep 2024
Family 2 Elinor NORRIS, b. 1554, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 1621, England (Age 67 years) Marriage 26 Jan 1593 Bristol, Gloucester, England Family ID F2584 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Sep 2024
Family 3 Lady Elizabeth Norris, b. Abt 1553, Heywood, White, Waltham, Berkshire, England d. 28 Apr 1621, St Andrew Parish, Holborn, London, (buried Westminster Abbey, London, England, United Kingdom (Age ~ 68 years) Marriage 25 Feb 1573 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England Children 1. Richard NORRIS, b. 21 Sep 1589, Westbury, Wiltshire, England d. 21 May 1638 (Age 48 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Rev. Edward Norris of Salem, Mass and Vicar of Tetury, England, b. Jan 1580, Tetbury, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, UK d. 23 Dec 1659, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 79 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Henry Norris, b. 11 Feb 1581, Westbury, Wiltshire, England [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F2585 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Sep 2024
Marriage 17 Jul 1600 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom [3] Family ID F7886 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Sep 2024
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Notes - Wikitree 2022
"Sir Edward Norreys (or Norris) (died 1603) was a 16th-century Governor of Ostend and English Member of Parliament.
Norreys was the third son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys and his wife, Lady Margery Williams, then of Wytham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He was elected as Member of Parliament for Abingdon in the Parliaments of 1584-1585 and 1588-1589. Like his more famous brother, Sir John Norreys, Edward became a distinguished soldier, fighting in the Netherlands. He was knighted by the Earl of Leicester in 1586 and was appointed Governor of Ostend in 1590. In February the following year he raided the Spanish fort at Blankenberge and destroyed it, returning to Ostend with little loss.[1]
In England, Sir Edward lived on a small estate at Englefield in Berkshire. Dudley Carleton was his secretary. Sir Edward married Elizabeth Norreys in 1600, but the cousinly union did not produce any children.
He died in October 1603.
Thomas Edmondes wrote that Norreys died after a quarrel with his wife left his mind unbalanced. She subsequently married the Scottish courtier Sir Thomas Erskine.[2]"
Sir Edward had knowledge of the Netherlands through the way. He also traveled extensively in his career.. Nor records of his children have been found in baptismal records by me in any county in England.
He could have fathered children in various travels who are now showing up as DNA matches between American descendants of Norris' in Berkshire which remained his home during these assignments. This is theory. Mary was born 32 miles from where he was born. We don't know where John was born of Mass. and NY whose descendants have multiple DNA triangulations with Mary Norris on Gedmatch.
- Wikitree 2022
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