Birth:
She was the daughter of Patrick J. Norton (1856-1905) an Irish immigrant and laborer on the railroad; and Sarah Jane Carr (c1866-1950) a maid in a rooming house. Patrick was from County Galway and Sarah was from Coalpits in Athleague parish in Killeroran district on the Galway and Roscommon border.
Immigration of parents:
Patrick immigrated around 1880 through Boston and Sara arrived around 1885 in New York.
Marriage of parents:
Sara and Patrick married on April 13, 1890 at Saint Paul's Roman Catholic Church in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey and had the following children: Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) a railroad yardmaster for the Delaware Lackawana & Western (DL&W) who married Mary (May) Margaret Burke (1890-1949) and later married her half-sister Josephine (May) Veronica Burke (1907-1995); James Joseph Norton I (1892-1961) who married Helen (Eenie) Marie Maher (1895-1974); Katherine (Kate) Norton who married James Patrick Langan I (1889-1975) an Army Sergeant in World War I and a newspaper pressman; and Sarah Francis Norton (1896) who died as an infant.
Death:
She died of "acute meningitis".
Research:
Researched and written by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) for Findagrave starting on June 24, 2003.
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Birth:
She was the daughter of Patrick J. Norton (1856-1905) an Irish immigrant and laborer on the railroad; and Sarah Jane Carr (c1866-1950) a maid in a rooming house. Patrick was from County Galway and Sarah was from Coalpits in Athleague parish in Killeroran district on the Galway and Roscommon border.
Immigration of parents:
Patrick immigrated around 1880 through Boston and Sara arrived around 1885 in New York.
Marriage of parents:
Sara and Patrick married on April 13, 1890 at Saint Paul's Roman Catholic Church in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey and had the following children: Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) a railroad yardmaster for the Delaware Lackawana & Western (DL&W) who married Mary (May) Margaret Burke (1890-1949) and later married her half-sister Josephine (May) Veronica Burke (1907-1995); James Joseph Norton I (1892-1961) who married Helen (Eenie) Marie Maher (1895-1974); Katherine (Kate) Norton who married James Patrick Langan I (1889-1975) an Army Sergeant in World War I and a newspaper pressman; and Sarah Francis Norton (1896) who died as an infant.
Death:
She died of "acute meningitis".
Research:
Researched and written by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) for Findagrave starting on June 24, 2003.
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