Have just received John Norman's will, which isn't of much help in differentiating his wife from anyone else who shared her name - but is of interest in other respects. Firstly, there appears to be nothing in the vagueness of the date at all - the wording "who died on or about" is part of the printed template, apparently not considering the possibility that someone's date of death might be known exactly!
In listing his children, John includes six whom I knew of, one I didn't - and does not mention Robert at all. Either he fell out with his oldest son and wrote him out of the will, or (more likely) I have identified Robert's parents incorrectly and need to be looking for a different John and Sarah Norman. I have nothing definite to connect Robert to the rest of that family, since by 1841 he had married and was living elsewhere.
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