William Hollings Norton
(1870-1937)

William Hollings Norton ⁸²

Born: 1870, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ⁸²
Marriage (1): Elsie Elizabeth Otto on 5 Apr 1898 in The Chapel, Riet Vlei, Natal, South Africa ⁸¹
Marriage (2): Frances Geraldine Chalmers Francis in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Died: 27 Nov 1937, Richmond, Natal, South Africa aged 67 ⁸²

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

bullet Birth Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/36071269/person/18877248182
Riet Vlei.

And

Copy of William Hollings Norton's Death Notice dated 13 December 1937 in RAB's possession. He is recorded as born in Pietermaritzburg.

bullet Death Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/36071269/person/18877248182

And

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT NAB
SOURCE MSCE
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 26574/1937
PART 1
DESCRIPTION NORTON, WILLIAM HOLLINGS. (S/S FRANCES GERALDINE CHALMERS).
STARTING 1937
ENDING 1939
REMARKS (SEE MSCE NO 35 613).

And

Copy of William Hollings Norton's Death Notice dated 13 December 1937 in RAB's possession. He died at home in Richmond.

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/36071269/person/18877248182

• Occupation. Solicitor.
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/36071269/person/18877248182

And

Farmer.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11863-118463-35?cc=2063749

Compound Manager.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23576-69304-21?cc=1468076

And

Copy of William Hollings Norton's Death Notice dated 13 December 1937 in RAB's possession. He is recorded as a recruiter.

• Children. They may have had a son Francis Norton possibly born in 1911. He does not appear on his father's death notice. So if he existed he died before 1937.

The name Francis is highly probable since his mother's surname was Francis.

I suspect this is misinformation based on a transpositon error at NAAIRS. The cert below is his mother's death notice. In this notice she is mistakenly recorded as Francis not Frances.

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT NAB
SOURCE MSCE
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 35613/1942
PART 1
DESCRIPTION NORTON, FRANCIS GERALDINE. (BORN FRANCIS) (WIDOW).
STARTING 1942
ENDING 1943
REMARKS MSCE 26 574.

As further evidence, I found clear proof of both his "sisters'" baptisms and no baptism record for him.

William married Elsie Elizabeth Otto, daughter of Ryno Van Der Riet Otto and Dinah Maria Muller, on 5 Apr 1898 in The Chapel, Riet Vlei, Natal, South Africa.⁸¹ The marriage ended in divorce in 1902. (Elsie Elizabeth Otto was born in Aug 1874 in Riet Vlei, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ⁸¹ and died on 30 Dec 1939 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa ⁸¹.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11863-118463-35?cc=2063749
Witnesses:-
? Norton
Laura Norton
Irene Norton

And

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT TAB
SOURCE WLD
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 80/1902
PART 1
DESCRIPTION ILLIQUID CASE DIVORCE WILLIAM HOLLINGS NORTON VERSUS ELSIE ELIZABETH
(BORN OTTO).
STARTING 19020000
ENDING 19020000

William next married Frances Geraldine Chalmers Francis in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. (Frances Geraldine Chalmers Francis died in 1942 in , Natal, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• General Comment. Copy of William Hollings Norton's Death Notice dated 13 December 1937 in RAB's possession.

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The data is specifically for non-commercial use and my clear intention is to build family records. The data may, therefore, not be used in any way for the purposes of financial gain.

Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years

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William Hollings Norton ⁸²