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Lovely to hear from a fellow Norweb/b.

I have started to glean more and more information about the family both here, in America, Canada, Australia and Botswana.  There are loads of offshoots but every single Norwebb or Norweb I have come across has been linkable to the same family tree so I gather that there is only one Norwebb/Norweb family in existance - which makes family research so much easier.

It would be great if you could locate any of your grandfathers research.  I know the memoirs of Janetta were revived by your side of the family and my dad met with Raymond Henry Norweb many many years ago at a huge family get together in England.  We also received communication from him when he was looking at putting an appendix in the memoirs. 

I have a copy of the memoirs of our ancestor and it makes for very interesting reading.  How much of it is true is anybody's guess but my research has found that lots of the people and events did actually happen - whether they happened to her or not is another thing.

Cheers

SNorwebb

Hi

I am trying to locate a possible workhouse death record or admissions record for Glandford Brigg Workhouse.  Janetta (aka Jenetta) Norweb (aka Norwebb) was buried on 5 Apr 1817 in Wrawby Lincolnshire so her death would have been around then. 

Any other parish records under the name of Norweb or Norwebb (particularly Thomas, George or James) that anyone comes across would also be of great use as any person with that surname belongs to the same family.

She wrote her memoirs while at the workhouse and they were published in 1812

Many thanks

Snorwebb

Okay here are some possibles

Susanna Bardon married to Richard Humphry 23 Jun 1834 at Nettlestead, Kent
Susannah Armstrong married to Richard Humphrys 27 Jul 1835 at St Mary, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Susannah Lewin married 09 Sept 1832 at Saint Giles, Camberwell, Surrey, England

On the 1841 census there is this listing
Richard Humphress 45
Susan Humphress 30
Sarah Humphress 7
Berkshire, England  Civil Parish of East Lockinge.

I have already found information that states that Richard and Susan had a daughter called Sarah Ann Humphries (possibly baptised at East Lockinge, Berkshire on 20 Jul 1834) so the census would relate to this family

Census and other historical recorded data does have lots of variants of name as the transcribers and the individuals either could not spell or did not see the importance of correct recording.  I find this alot in my job at Nottinghamshire Archives.

When looking for Susan Humphries I would also suggest that you look under susanna and susannah.

Hope this is of help to you

Hi

If it's information on the Nottingham Norwebbs or the Norwebbs from anywhere around the world (they are all connected) then I have loads of information. 

I also happen to work at Nottinghamshire Archives and have seen the baptism, burial and marriage entries first hand.

The presbyterian church later became congregational and then United reformed emerged from that.  This hopefully explains one of your questions.

As for people being baptised in one place and buried in another>  There are several reasons for this:
The person might live in another area when they die and therefore be buried in that parish church.
The church they were baptised in might not have a graveyard or the graveyard may be full by the time of death so another one had to be sought.
Also many Nottinghamshire deaths in 1700s - 1800's and early 1900's resulted in burials in the two main cemeteries in Nottingham.  The Church Cemetery and the General Cemetery.  I have already located various Norwebb/Norweb family members in the General Cemetery archives.

Also of
interest to you might be the memoirs of Janetta Norwebb who died circa 1813. These memoirs provide a wealth of information and I have transcribed the lot from the british library copy I managed to borrow for a while. 

I have managed to trace the Norwebb name now back to 1700's and have found family members in America, Canada, Australia, Botswana as well as England.  Also Janetta has connections to wealthy merchants in Madiera and Scotland - so we are quite spread out. 

If you manage to locate a Norwebb or Norweb then it is 99.9% likely they are related as I have found connections for all Norwebbs traced so far and have been led to believe it was a made up name.

Cheers

Susan Norwebb
Archives Assistant