Born in Kentucky, USA on 1809 to William Stewart and Nancy Mayhall. William Norris married Francis Fanny Jones and had 7 children. He passed away on 1880 in Vermilion, Illinois, USA.
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Scottish: originally an occupational name for an administrative official of an estate, from Middle English stiward, Old English stigweard, stiweard, a compound of stig ‘house(hold)’ + weard ‘guardian’. In Old English times this title was used of an officer controlling the domestic affairs of a household, especially of the royal household; after the Conquest it was also used more widely as the native equivalent of
for the steward of a manor or manager of an estate.
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