Maria NORTON

1862 -

• Name	Maria NORTON
  Birth	20 Jul 1862	Lambeth, London, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Census	2 Apr 1871	Kennington, Lambeth, London, England   [1]
  	Age: 8y
  	Address: 196 Camberwell New Road
  	Relation to Head of House: Daughter
  Census	31 Mar 1901	Paddington, London, England   [4]
  	Age: 38y
  	Address: 47 Essendene Road
  	Head, Single Professor of Music
  Occupation	31 Mar 1901	Paddington, London, England
  	Professor of Music
  	Age: 38y
  Reference Number	BR 1759a
  Reference Number	BR-J
  Person ID	I5003	Jacobs
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Francis NORTON,   b. Abt 1824, London, England d. Between Jul 1898 and Sep 1898, Lambeth, London, England (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Julia JACOBS,   b. Abt 1827, Whitechapel, London, England d. 30 May 1913, Wandsworth, London, England (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	20 Jan 1858	London, England   [5, 6]
  	When her brother dies in 1862 she is referred to as Mrs F Norton so already married by this time.
  Family ID	F1629	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Horace William SPAFFORD,   b. Abt 1854   d. Between Jul 1934 and Sep 1934, Brentford, Middlesex, England (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	23 Apr 1904
  	Details from Phil Kirby: GRO Marriage Certificate St Alban's Church Acton Green Middlesex April 23 1904 HORACE WILFRED SPAFFORD 45 bachelor Brush Maker 118 St Albans Ave-father John SPAFFORD (deceased) Clerk MARIA NORTON 41 spinster 118 St Albans Ave-father Francis NORTON (deceased ) Solicitor Witnesses-John Pentecost; Alice Wordward?
  Family ID	F1727	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Jan 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 20 Jul 1862 - Lambeth, London, England Census - Age: 8y,Address: 196 Camberwell New Road - 2 Apr 1871 - Kennington, Lambeth, London, England Census - Age: 38y,Address: 47 Essendene Road - 31 Mar 1901 - Paddington, London, England Occupation - Professor of Music,Age: 38y - 31 Mar 1901 - Paddington, London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  From Phil Kirby via British Genealogy https://www.british-genealogy.com/threads/84819-FRANCIS-NORTON-JULIA-JACOBS The story of Maria is not a happy one and I will describe. She married Horace Wilfred SPAFFORD in 1904: GRO Marriage Certificate St Alban's Church Acton Green Middlesex April 23 1904 HORACE WILFRED SPAFFORD 45 bachelor Brush Maker 118 St Albans Ave-father John SPAFFORD (deceased) Clerk MARIA NORTON 41 spinster 118 St Albans Ave-father Francis NORTON (deceased ) Solicitor Witnesses-John Pentecost; Alice Wordward? The 1911 Census shows Horace living alone and Maria did not appear in the 1911 Census. Further research shows the reason for the separation. 1911 (Copyright,TNA) 2 Curzon Road Ealing London W Horace Wilfred Spafford H 52 Married 6 years no children Brush maker Worker b Hull Yorkshire 5 Rooms Horace appears in later London Electoral Register records living at: 1908 19 St Georges Road Acton Green and another house 118 St Albans Avenue and by 1927 -297 High Road Hounslow. 8 Kingswood Road Acton 1919-22 Horace died in 1934. GRO Death Index Horace W SPAFFORD age 76 b abt 1858 Sept qtr 1934 Brentford 3a 132.. Maria did not appear in any Electoral Rolls. The following records give the reason: London Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers- Maria Spafford b 1863 Teacher of Music Married Husband lives at 19 St Georges Road Bedford Park - Admitted 3.10.1908 discharged 16.10.1908 Westminster Workhouse Maria Spafford 45 Music Teacher 19 St Georges Road Bedford Park- she is recorded incorrectly as Maria SPIFFORD by Ancestry.Com: Doctor's Report Maria had been found wandering by the Police at Walton Road 5.15 am where a crowd had gathered. She was behaving incoherently and unable to speak clearly. On admittance to the workhouse 31 Oct 1908 she was unable to talk coherently; she stared into space; heard voices and sounds and talked to herself. She did have more coherent moments but also stated that her food was being poisoned and that her husband was not living with her although Horace denied this. She did not want to return to him. There is a full report on Maria with descriptions of other behaviour. She was discharged to the Infirmary ( the note on an earlier record is difficult to read). I do not know what happened to her between 1908 and 1917. However, in 1917 Maria appears at Fulham Britten Street Old and New Workhouses - 12.6.1917 Maria SPAFFORD to HANWELL ASYLUM This is The London County Asylum Hanwell 1889-1917 This maybe a GRO Death Index Record for Maria but a copy is required to confirm: Maria SPAFFORD b abt 1865 Age 82 Death June qtr 1947 Wandsworth 5d 649 Base on current research it appears that the Francis Norton and Julai Jacobs line ended with the death of Maria and her sister Dinah because they had no children and Dinah appears not to have married.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2992] 1871 Census - RG 10-0676 F61 P21 - Norton, Francis, 23 Nov 2015. [S3242] BMD - Birth Index, 23 Nov 2013, 1862 JAS Lambeth 1d 359. [S3211] Birth Notice - Norton, Maria, 1 May 2018. [S3213] 1901 Census - RG 13-0009 F53 P08 - Norton, Maria, 1 May 2018. [S60] BMD - Marriage Index, 21 Nov 2015, 1858 JFM London City 1c 226. [S2374] Synagogue Scribes - Source: www.synagoguescribes.com copyright A. Shire, 1 May 2018, GSM2 227/8.