Morser Family History

The Norton Families

This may be the Norton family in 1841:

There is a Morton family in the 1851 Census that looks quite good, especially as Dad is a Smith:

No sign (so far) of the family in 1861 but by 1871, Henry (now a hawker) and Catherine are called Norton, and they are living at St Mary Newington Walworth London.

By 1871 the son Samuel (1843) has married a Sarah and has started a family.

This looks like the Norton family in 1881:

In 1891 Catherine (1809) is in the workhouse.

The Bowler Families

In the marriage indexes at freeBMD there is a marriage entry for Samuel NORTON and Sarah H. BOWLER in Newington in 1866, and a birth record for a "Sarah Hannah Bowler" in 1841 in Bethnal Green.
Bearing in mind that Bethnal Green is "next door" to Hackney, then this could be the Bowler family in 1841:

... and in 1851:

In the marriage indexes there is a marriage entry for Joseph BOWLER in East London, in 1840. And there is a Sarah GRAVES and a Sarah WILFOR getting married on "the same page" (four entries per page), so with a brother James GRAVES - in the 1851 census - it looks like Sarah was born a Graves !

We've still got Grandmother Ann there, in 1851, "hanging loose" - does she belong to Joseph or Sarah ?

A cautionary note:
Much of this is speculative. The data fits well with the known facts (names and places), and the chronological sequences are plausible, but a proper study would mean confirming the data with the appropriate birth and marriage certificates or entries in parish registers.

An interesting snippet:

Have you noticed the H. as second name, for some of the Nortons ?
According to her birth record at freeBMD , Sarah H. Norton was born as "Sarah Hannah Bowler" and, interestingly, there is also a birth record at freeBMD for Catherine Hannah Norton, in 1875 in Lambeth

Coincidently (the parents knew nothing about these ancestors, at the time) Hannah and Sarah have been passed on to living descendants of this family.