The Norman and Marshall Families - Paupers and Peasants
The Holton Poor Book Entries
(from book held at the Somerset Record Office, Taunton)
1775 Paid since the account was past for warrants and of execution of Ann Norman
20 Jul 1776 Gave Ann Norman in sickness 3s
17 Nov 1779 Two pairs shoes for Ann Norman
Two pairs boys shoes for Ann Norman 4sh 3d
17 Dec 1780 Ann Norman paid 8s a month for 1780
19 Jan 1781 Paid one month for Richard Norman being returned from Mr Plunknett's on condition of having the itch
14 Jul 1781 Itch ointment
7 April 1782 Paid one month for John Norman 8sh
5 April 1782 A pair of shoes for John Norman 2sh 10d
20 April 1782 Paid Mary Aishford for John Norman 25 wick (week) a 2 per wik twa 28 October £2
24 May 1782 Paid Hanna Oborn for two pots of ointment for Ann Norman's children to cure ye itch.
23 Oct 1782 Paid for Jno Norman jdenturs 5sh
Pd with Jno Norman £3
Spend when we went with him 7d
The fate of the family is not clear after 1782 but an Ann Norman married Thomas Day in Holton in 1782. The marriage was witnessed by Dinah Rendel and the Church Warden, John Wood. Was this 'our' Ann? Ironically Thomas Day was an Overseer of the Poor so it could be said he was doing the parish poor ratepayers a favour in taking Ann off their hands!
Ann and Thomas baptised three children together: Maria (1783), Elizabeth (1786) and Charles (1795).
Ann Day was buried in Holton in 1797.
No further trace has been found of either the Day family or of John Norman's brothers. John is seems to be the only member of the Norman family to have remained in Holton.