General Notes

Francis Norwood fled England with his father at the restoration of Charles II in 1660, "on account of the trouble in which the father feared they might be involved for the part he had taken in the civil wars of that period." This statement is in the "History of Gloucester" by John J. Babson, and why didn't he just come right out and say that Charles II had promised to seek out and hang everyone who had any part in the death of his father, once he was restored. He did just that, too, to all he could catch up with.
Francis was in Gloucestrer, at Goose Cove, in 1663. He was a very wealthy man for his day, and at his death in 1709, he owned a considerable amount of land. His father was one of the Judges who condemned King Charles I. It is possible that he is the son of Capt. Thomas Norwood 1612-1703 who emigrated to America 1648. He had a son Francis born 1638 in Gloucestershire. Captain Thomas Norwood fought in the battle of Edgehill in 1642 in Col. Sir John Bryant's Regiment, taken prisoner at Beachley 28 August 1642.