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(1740??-1772+), wife of William Broughall Jr. |
IGI records list the wife of William Broyhill as Sarah Norman.
However, I question the accuracy of this. A 1771 deed names his wife
as Sarah. I have never found any document citing her maiden name,
but years ago I speculated that it may have been Norman. I suspect
that someone took that speculation and registered it with the IGI.
Whatever her last name, William and Sarah were
apparently married in before 1760 or 1761 when their son James was born.
Sarah was probably born around 1740. They were apparently then living in Caroline
County, Virginia. Their son James married Rebecca Bailey in 1787 and
they named their first child John Norman Broyhill. He was the only one
of their children to receive a middle name and in all probability he was
named after Sarah’s father. If so, he was "John Norman" and he
was probably born before 1720.
In 1987, I was searching the ancestors of my
grandmother, Nell Brewer Broyhill. Her mother, Nancy Shipwash, was born
in 1848, had lived in Wilkes County, NC for many years and had an
incredible memory. She could recite the genealogies of both her
ancestors and those of my grandfather and Nell had the foresight to
write it all down. I have since researched her statements and
found them to be unbelievably accurate. Nancy’s ancestors included
Samuel Sprinkle, who married Ruth Norman in Surry County, NC in
1807. Nancy named Ruth’s father as Joseph F. Norman. Armed with
information, I researched the Norman Family. There appears have been
only one Norman family living in Virginia during the early eighteen
century - that of Culpeper County.
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Issac Norman Sr.
(1680??-1763)
Earliest Known Ancestor |
Nellie Virginia Norman in her
book, The Norman’s of Culpeper, wrote: Issac Norman Sr.
(1680??-1763??) lived on Flatt Run in what is now Culpeper County,
Va. He married a woman named Courtney and they had the following
children: Courtney, Kesiah, Jemima, Kerenhappuck, Isaac Jr., Joseph,
Frances, Rose and Isabel. Kesiah, Jemima and Kerenhapuck were said
to have been named for the three daughters of Job, the last chapter in
the Old Testament. Isaac seems to have wanted to give his children a
good start in life. He gave his son Courtney a tract of land in 1728,
and son Isaac Jr. one in 1735. It may have been a wedding gift or simply
recognition that they had reached their age of majority. (Apparently he
was financially unable to do this for the older sons). Assuming that
each was then age twenty, establishes an estimated birth date for them.
In 1740, he gave his son Joseph a tract of land, probably upon his
marriage to his second wife, Sarah.
In 1987, Mrs. W.O. Absher, a professional
genealogist from Wilkes County, prepared for me a long report on the
Norman family in connection with searching my Brewer Ancestors.
She wrote that William Perry Johnson, a professional genealogist in
Raleigh, NC, published the Journal of North Carolina Genealogy for many
years. In Vol. XI, No. 3, Fall, 1965, appears an article on the
Norman Family contributed by Mr. George H.S. King, Genealogist of
Fredericksburg, Va.
It began by stating that the Normans of Culpeper
County, Va. starts with Issac Norman who was a pioneer along the Rappahannock
river in which is now Culpeper County. Many pioneers of that area came
from Middlesex, Gloucester and other tidewater counties.
It states that Issac Norman was born about 1680 and
married Frances (last name Courtney, according to family tradition) and
died in 1763. In the early 1700's he lived on Flatt Run, a stream
that flows into Mountain Run near where Mountain Run flows into the
Rappahannock river, near the present town of Remington. Nearby
"Norman's Ford" a notable early cross of the Rappahannock
river is said to have taken its name from Issac Norman. the Virginia
Land Register, Vol XII, p. 484 states "Norman's ford on the
Rappahannock river took its name from Issac Norman of the Stafford
Family, who first settle there in June 1726 and had a land grant on the
Spotsylvania (later Culpeper County) shore of the river.
Issac Norman is first mentioned the records of
Spotsylvania County in the will of John Roberts, dated Sept. 10,
1724. John Roberts willed land to his sons, described as being on
Flatt Run joining the land of Issac Norman. There are many other
deeds in Spotsylvania and Culpeper County revealing the activities of
Issac Norman and his family. According to various records, their
children included: |
| Courtney Norman |
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| Kesiah Norman |
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| Jemima Norman |
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| Kerenhapuck Norman |
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| Issac Norman |
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| Joseph Norman |
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| Frances Norman |
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| Rose Norman |
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Mrs. Absher's report then follows
his son Joseph, who was the father of James Norman, who moved to Wilkes
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Courtney
Norman (1708??-1770)
son of Issac Norman
Sr. |
| Courtney received a land
grant from his father in 1728. He married Mary Browning and their son
Courtney Jr. was born in 1730. Nellie Virginia Norman suggested the land
grant was a wedding present. Courtney and Mary had the following
children: |
| Courtney Norman Jr. |
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| John Norman |
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| Amey Norman |
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| Reuben Norman |
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| Benjamin Norman |
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| Ezekiel Norman |
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| William Norman |
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| Mary Norman |
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| Milley Norman |
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John
(Courtney) Norman (1726??-1758+)
son of Courtney
Norman |
John Norman was the son of
Courtney Norman. Nellie Virginia Norman wrote that little was known
about him, other than his wife’s name was Ann and that they had a son
named Benjamin. However, he appears to be the only John Norman living in
Virginia at that time. Thus he could very well be the father of Sarah,
wife of William Broyhill.
The International Genealogical Index
maintained by the Mormon Church has several records pertaining to him:
(1) Film No. 2034854 cites John Norman, b. 1726, Spotsylvania, Va.
Father Courtney Norman, Mother Mary Browning. (2) Film 538314, page 2,
Reference No. 13655 gives his name as John Courtney Norman and his birth
as 1720. (3) Batch F513754, Source Call 1553746 names him as John
Norman, same parents as cited above, but states that he is in Culpeper
in 1758. and (4) Film 1985492 names him as John Norman, same parents as
cited above, but states he was born in Culpeper, Virginia in 1763.
No record of his children, but they may have included: |
| Benjamin Norman |
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| Sarah Norman |
1740??- |
wife of William Broughill Jr? |
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Another
Possibility...
Joseph Norman (1700??-1784)
son of Issac
Norman Sr. |
However Courtney’s brother
Joseph Norman (1700??-1784) was born in the early 1700’s and married
Mary Read around 1730; she was the daughter of John and Winifred Favior
Read. They had three children: Mary, Winifred, and James.
Apparently Mary died because he then married a Sarah; according to
family tradition, her last name was Everett. They had Margaret
"Peggy", William, Frances, Sarah "Sally," Jemima,
Kesiah and John. This Sarah Norman was born about the right time to
have been the wife of William Broughill.
His parents deeded him land in 1740. It was
near that of his brother in law Francis Browning in the Little Fork of
the Rappahannock River on the head branch of Battle Run. He died
in 1784. His will dated 1783 was probated on Feb. 16, 1784 in Culpeper
County, Va
His son James was the father of the Ruth
Norman, who married Samuel Sprinkle. Nancy Shipwash provided Joseph’s
middle initial, "F." |
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