Honor White

1589 - Bef 1649  (< 60 years)

• Name	Honor White  [1]
  Born	1589  [2]
  Died	Bef 04 Aug 1649
  Buried	04 Aug 1649	Southwick, Hampshire   [3]
  Person ID	I00975	Eliots of Port Eliot
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	John White
  Mother	Frances Butler
  Family ID	F00035	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Husband	Daniel Norton,   b. Bef 15 Oct 1568,   d. 04 Jul 1636  (Age > 67 years)
  Married	30 Oct 1606  [1]
  Children	1. Bridget Norton,   d. Bef 03 Jul 1632   2. Katherine Norton,   b. Bef 09 Sep 1608   3. Honor Norton,   b. Bef 05 May 1611,   d. Bef 01 Nov 1652  (Age < 41 years)   4. Frances Norton,   b. Bef 02 Aug 1612   5. Daniel Norton,   b. 1613,   d. Abt 1633  (Age 20 years)   6. Richard Norton,   b. Bef 06 Dec 1615   7. Elizabeth Norton,   b. Bef 10 Jun 1617,   bur. 19 Aug 1640, Southwick, Hampshire  (Age ~ 23 years)   8. Edward Norton,   b. Abt 1618,   d. Bef 19 Mar 1679/80  (Age < 62 years)   9. Thomas Norton,   b. Bef 07 Dec 1620   10. John Norton,   b. 16 Mar 1622/23   11. Mary Norton,   b. Bef 18 Jul 1624
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021
  Family ID	F00228	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  --- "Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England" by Kenneth Charlton, 2002, page 112: Robert Abbot, 'preacher of the Word' at Southwick, Hampshire, was engaged as tutor to the four daughters of Lady Honoria Norton of Southwick. He dedicated his "Milk for Babies" (1646) to Lady Honoria, and the appended four sermons to his four charges. --- "Catechisms Written for Mothers, Schoolmistresses, and Children, 1575-1750" edited by Paula McQuade et al, 2008, page 12: "To His much Honoured Patronesse, the Lady Honoria Norton . . ." (1646) Robert Abbot (fl. c. 1589-1652) Robert Abbot was a Protestant minister and author. . . . In 1643, Abbot left Cranbrook and moved to the living of Southwick, Hampshire, under the patronage of Lady Honoria Norton . . . This dedicatory epistle, the first of two which preface "Milk for Babes", underscores the importance of upper-class women to the production and dissemination of mother-directed catechisms in seventeenth-century England. Lady Honoria Norton (d. 1648) was the wife of Sir Daniel Norton (1568-1636) of Southwick, Hampshire. The Nortons were 'leading members of the county's Calvinist gentry'' Lady Norton's son, Richard Norton, was a protege of Oliver Cromwell. Honoria Norton seems to have exercised considerable authority within her family; Richard's Royalist opponents decried 'the dominance of his mother'. In this epistle, Abbot describes Lady Norton's influence over his catechism's composition, crediting his stay in Norton's household, where he provided catechetical lessons to children and servants, as 'the main cause' of his writing. '[I]f it prove acceptable to Christ's Church'. he write, 'you (Madam) shall have the thanks, and credit, under whose wings it hath found leisure to be born' (AA2). Abbot concludes the epistle by urging Lady Norton to use his published catechism to instruct her grandchildren: 'Be . . . like Timothy his mother and grand-mother (who trained him from a childe in the Scriptures) to train them up in undoubted principles . . . and they will . . . thank God that they had such a grand-mother' (AA3v).

  
  

• Sources

  HistoryofParliamentOnline.com. "Notes and Queries" Oxford University Press, 1907, page 330-332. [S00004] FMP Parish Records Collection, www.findmypast.co.uk, (Transcriptions of Parish Christenings, Marriages and Burials). Original Scan of St. Martin's in the Field Baptism Records. "18 [March 1684/5] james Craggs of James and Eliza. G. 8"