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VCH Lancs. 4.278, fn. 50: Curate at Gorton in 1619, when it was reported at the visitation that he 'did not read the whole service'; by 1632 another curate but Norman had returned by 1641.
Minutes of the Manchester Classis, ed. W.A. Shaw, 3 parts, Chetham Soc, new ser., vols. 20, 22, 24 (1890-1), 3.443;1.8: Preacher at Gorton, 1617-1622; at Birch, 1623-33; at Newton (Winwick parish), 1642 to his death in 1649. member of the fourth classis for Newton, 1646. Will proved at Chester, 1649. Father of Thomas Norman, Curate at Gorton, 1651-2.
J. Booker, A History of the Ancient Chapel of Birch in Manchester Parish, Chetham Soc., vol. 47 (1859), 145: Curate at Birch by 1623, and whilst there in 1632/3, by 1635 another curate there. By 1641 back at Birch.