John Lind wrote:
>There was this momentous event near Hastings in 1066 when a guy named
>William soundly thrashed and trounced a guy named Harold. To do this,
>William and his henchmen paddled their boats across the English Channel
>from the area now known as Normandy. But that's not where they originally
>came from, having migrated there much earlier.
One of those henchmen's sirname was De Nordville--an ancestor of mine. The
name changed from De Nordville to Norton a few centuries later.
Thanks for refreshing our history.
Ken De Norville
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