Born on the 14th February 1880, the birth being
registered during the March quarter 1880 in the
Walsall R.D. - ref: 6b/656, the son of Jabez &
Mary Ann Norton (nee Perry).

1881 Census - 69 Walsall Road, Darlaston,
Staffordshire.    Son - aged: 1 - born: Darlaston,
Staffordshire.    Head of household - Jabez Norton
- Married - aged: 26 - occ: Engine Fitter - born:
West Bromwich, Staffordshire.   Also - Mary A.
Norton - Wife - aged: 27 - born: Wednesbury,
Staffordshire.   Plus 1 elder sister and a
lodger.

1891 Census - 39 Walsall Road, Darlaston,
Staffordshire.    Son - aged: 11 - Scholar - born:
Darlaston, Staffordshire.    Head of household -
Jabez Norton - Married - aged: 36 - occ: Engine
Fitter & Die Sinker - born: West Bromwich,
Staffordshire.   Also - Mary A. Norton - Wife -
aged: 37 - born: Wednesbury, Staffordshire.   Plus
2 siblings.

1901 Census - 31 Sparrows Forge Road, Wednesbury,
Staffordshire.   Son - Unmarried - aged: 21 - occ:
Patternmaker Wood - born: Darlaston,
Staffordshire.    Head of household - Jabez Norton
- Married - aged: 46 - occ: Die Sinker - born:
West Bromwich, Staffordshire.   Also - Mary A.
Norton - Wife - aged: 47 - born: Wednesbury,
Staffordshire.   Plus 2 siblings.

Married Nellie Wright during the September quarter
1908 in the Barton on Irwell R.D. - ref: 8c/1229.

1911 Census - 60 Firwood Avenue, Urmston Lane,
Stretford.    Head - Married - aged: 31 - occ:
Wood Patternmaker - born: Darlaston,
Staffordshire.    Also - Nellie Norton - Wife -
aged: 25 - born: Stretford.    Plus 1 son -
Kenneth Norton who would eventually have to
identify his family's bodies.

His mother Mary Ann, died in 1904 - aged: 51 and
in 1911, his father - Jabez, married a Sarah Ada
Perry (Mary Ann's sister perhaps???).   Jabez died
in 1938 - aged: 83.

1939 National Registration - 90 Urmston Lane,
Stretford.   Arthur S. Norton - Married - Born:
14th February 1880 - occ: Engineer's Pattern
Maker.  Nellie Norton - Married - Born: 25th
February 1886 - occ: Unpaid Domestic Duties.  
Irene Norton - Single - Born: 6th November 1916 -
occ: Cost Clerk Makers & Confectioner.   Frank M.
Norton - Single - Born: 5th June 1919 p- occ:
Despatch & Shipping Clerk, Cable Manufacturer.  
There was one redacted record  at this address -
presumably this was their daughter - Joyce Norton
b.1922.

CWD Report No. 82.   Died at 90 Urmston Lane,
Stretford, from where his body was recovered at
10.00 hrs on the 24th December 1940 and taken to
the City Road Mortuary, Old Trafford.     His body
was identified by his son - Kenneth Norton, 195
Winchester Road, Urmston and released for burial
to the Council's Undertaker Contractor - R.
Pepperdine, 31 Ayres Road, Old Trafford.    
Described as being 5 feet 9 inches in height, of
large build and grey hair.    Employed as a
Pattern Maker

Arthur's wife and their two daughters died also
died in this incuident.     Kenneth Norton was
their eldest son - born in 1909.

Buried 30/12/1940 - Burial No. 17,876.

CWGC - of 90 Urmston Lane. Son of Ada Norton, of
58 Wood Street, Fallings Heath, Wednesbury,
Staffordshire, and of the late Jabez Norton;
husband of Nellie Norton. Died at 90 Urmston
Lane.