The Norton Family Crest

Two brothers, John and William Norton, the first a clergyman, came over in 1635, from Co. Bedford, where the family estate, Sharpenhoe, was situated, to Ipswich, Mass. There is an old MS. pedigree of the Norton family, prepared in 1632 by John Philepott, Somerset Herald, which gives, in a rather romantic fashion, a so-called history of the Nortons, of Bedfordshire, tracing them back to Normile, a Norman, allied to the Valois, whose son, Sir John Norton came over with the Conqueror. The family is mentioned in the official Visitations of 1634 for counties Hertford and Bedford.

Family

Norton

Blazon

A Griffin, Séjeant: Proper—Winged, Gules, Beak And Fore Legs, Or.

Source

America Hereldica