Records of Eleanor Norrie on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Eleanor Norrie in your family tree. With over 30 billion records and 100 million family trees to search, Ancestry is one of the key websites to visit to help you trace your family tree back in time. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Eleanor Norrie and the Norrie Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Norrie Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Norrie family tree.

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Norrie Family Tree Databases

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Norrie Forums

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Some Famous People called Eleanor Norrie

Eleanor Norrie

Eleanor Elizabeth Tucker Norrie (born 1942) is a former teacher, restaurant owner and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. She represented Truro-Bible Hill in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 1998 as a Liberal member.

Norrie was born in Tatamagouche Mountain, Nova Scotia and was educated at Colchester County Academy and the provincial normal school. Norrie entered provincial politics in the 1993 election, defeating former Progressive Conservative MLA Jack Coupar by 187 votes in the Truro-Bible Hill riding. In June 1993, Norrie was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of the Civil Service. She became Minister of Human Resources later that year when the Civil Service Commission was replaced with the Department of Human Resources. In March 1995, Norrie was shuffled to Minister of Housing and Consumer Affairs. In March 1996, Norrie was named Minister of Natural Resources. She was dropped from the cabinet when Russell MacLellan took over as premier in July 1997.

Norrie reoffered in the 1998 election, but was defeated by Progressive Conservative Jamie Muir. She later served as the president of the Liberal association for the federal riding of Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley.

Source: Eleanor Norrie, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Norrie

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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