A History of the Turner Family of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire

This article relates the events that led to the discovery, after more than 32 years of work, that our Turner ancestors, who had lived in Marylebone and St. John's Wood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, originated from south west Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Julian Turner, painter of Cheveley and a law case in Chancery are just two intriguing facts mentioned in family documents. Can you help us unravel any of the twenty questions, listed below, that are to be found in The Turner Family of Suffolk?

* The full article is currently available in PDF format and can be found here *

Edward TURNER 1773 – 1848 and Maria PEARCE 1777 – 1848
The Children of Edward and Maria TURNER
A TURNER Marriage to a TURNER

3.1 Helen TURNER to John Thomas TURNER in 1872
3.2 1871 Census
3.3 1861 Census
3.4 1851 Census
3.5 John Thomas TURNER's First Marriage
3.6 The Children of John Thomas TURNER and Helen TURNER
3.7 Eliza Walkden TURNER to Thomas TURNER in 1858

The Cambridgeshire Connection

4.1 The Notes of Margaret Emma TURNER
4.2 Julian TURNER of Cheveley
4.3 Family Tree Chart for Helen and John Thomas TURNER

Edward TURNER and Elizabeth KEMBALL

5.1 The baptism of Edward TURNER Jr in 1773
5.2 William KEMBALL
5.3 The Will of William KEMBALL – 1792
5.4 Overview of the KEMBALL family of Dalham and Hitcham

The TURNER Family of Wickhambrook

6.1 The LINWOOD Family of Cheveley

The Family Legend – A Perspective
Map of Suffolk with Relevant Parishes
Acknowledgments

Index of Ancestors – A list of some of our ancestors.
Queries – Can you help with any of these?

We would like to hear from and exchange information with any descendants of John Turner and Juliana Dyzon who lived in Wickhambrook, Suffolk in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Please contact: stjwturner@googlemail.com

Index of Ancestors

For a more detailed account of these and many others, please refer to the corresponding PDF article.

Individual	Dates	Spouse	Born
Sophia Sarah COLLINS		John Thomas TURNER (1^st)	St Pancras, Middlesex

Martha Elizabeth DANCE	1830 – 1920	Peter Pearce TURNER	Pirton, Worcestershire

Juliana DIZON	? – 1741	John TURNER

Elizabeth KEMBALL	1752 – ?	Edward TURNER	Dalham, Suffolk
William KEMBALL	c1695 – 1748	Elizabeth TALBOTT	Hitcham, Suffolk
William KEMBALL	1722 – 1792	Ann NEWPORT	Hitcham, Suffolk

Elizabeth LINWOOD		Julian TURNER	Cheveley, Cambs

Jane MADLEY	1828 – 1883	Richard Edward B. TURNER	Itton, Monmouth

Ann NEWPORT	1728 – 1789	William KEMBALL	Rede, Suffolk
John NEWPORT	? – 1777	Ann RANNOW

Maria PEARCE	1770 – 1848	Edward TURNER	St George Hanover Square
Peter PEARCE	? – ?	Mary MOOR?	Bristol (Quaker)

Ann RANNOW	? – 1767

Elizabeth TALBOTT	1696 – ?	William KEMBALL	Great Cornard, Suffolk

Edward TURNER	1750 – ?	Elizabeth KEMBALL	Cheveley, Cambs
Edward TURNER	1773 – 1848	Maria PEARCE	Suffolk
Edward William Kemball TURNER	1797 – 1870	Ann DARLING	Marylebone
Eliza Ann TURNER	1807 – 1895		Marylebone
Eliza Walkden TURNER	1839 – ?	Thomas TURNER	Marylebone
Emma Jane TURNER	1832 – ?		Holborn, Middlesex
George David TURNER	1830 – ?
Helen TURNER	1836 – 1906	John Thomas TURNER	Bristol
John TURNER	c1688 – 1720	Juliana DIZON	Suffolk?
John TURNER	1760 – 1825	Charlotte BEETON	Cheveley, Cambs
John TURNER	c1790 – ?	Elizabeth DEEKS
John Thomas TURNER	1824 – 1892	Helen TURNER (2^nd)	Brixton, Surrey
Julian TURNER	1717 – 1773	Elizabeth LINWOOD	Wickhambrook, Suffolk
Julian TURNER	1758 – 1834	Elizabeth CURTIS	Cheveley, Cambs
Joseph TURNER	1827 – ?		Brixton, Surrey
Margaret Emma TURNER	1880 – 1959
Peter Pearce TURNER	1833 – 1886	Martha Elizabeth DANCE	Marylebone
Richard Edward Burdon TURNER	1831 – 1869	Jane MADLEY	Marylebone
Thomas TURNER	1836 – ?	Eliza Walkden TURNER	Southgate, Middlesex
William TURNER	c1779 – 1811		Southgate, Middlesex ?
William TURNER	1805 – 1883	Married 3 times	Marylebone
William Busby TURNER	1838 – ?		Bristol
William Edward TURNER	1825 – ?	Catherine ?	Brixton, Surrey

Queries

Can you help with any of these queries? Please refer to the corresponding PDF article for full details.

[Query 1: If anyone has pictures of Edward Turner and Maria Turner's (nee Pearce) children or grandchildren, please let us know.]

[Query 2: If anyone can provide any further information on the family of William Turner, born c 1779, please contact us using the e-mail address provided.]

[Query 3: Could this William Turner, (born c 1779), who was buried in 1811 aged 32, be a brother of our Edward Turner of Marylebone who was born c 1773?]

[Query 4: We believe there was a third brother, Joseph Turner, born 25 August 1827: he emigrated to Australia on 8 August 1857 – any further information on Joseph would be appreciated.]

[Query 5: Does anyone have any information on Peter Pearce of Bristol, born c 1740? He appears to have moved to Westminster before 1770 where his daughter Maria was born.

[Query 6: Which, if either, of two Peter Pears/Pearce couples were Maria Pearce's parents?]

[Query 7: When and where was Elizabeth Turner, n�e Linwood buried?]

[Query 8: Did Julean Turner and Elizabeth Curtis have any other children and what happened to them and their children after 1783?]

[Query 9: Did the marriage take place at Charlton on 20 July 1773 – three days before the licence?]

[Query 10: Why did the marriage take place at Charlton in Kent – miles away from Suffolk?]

[Query 11: Did Edward and Elizabeth Turner have any more children after 1773 – in particular, following on from Query 3, did they have a son William Turner, (born c 1779), who was the plasterer of Southgate who was buried at Edmonton in 1811 aged 32?]

[Query 12: What happened to Edward Turner and Elizabeth Kemball between 1773 and 1789 – in particular, where and when was Edward Turner buried?]

[Query 13: What happened to Jeremiah Hines and Elizabeth Kemball between 1773 and 1789 – in particular, where and when was Elizabeth Turner buried?]

[Query 14: Exactly how were William and Richard Kemball related – were they half-brothers, step-brothers or was there some complicated same-surname marriage?]

[Query 15: Where and when was Juliana Dizon baptised – although a Thomas Dizing had a number of children baptised at Wickhambrook, we have been unable to locate one for Juliana?]

[Query 16: What was Lettice's maiden name and where and when did John Turner and Lettice marry?]

[Query 17: Although the Earl of Dysart owned the land, and John Christopher leased The Star and Garter, did Edward Collins ever own own it? Does anyone have any information about The Star and Garter or The Roebuck of Richmond in this period (c 1732 – 1773)?]

[Query 18: Is there any connection between a Turner and the Scottish Mint in the 17th century?]

[Query 19: Is anyone aware of this alleged memorial to Thomas Tourner in Bath Abbey 1567?]

[Query 20: Has anyone come across a reference to a Julian Turner, painter and does the term 'painter' refer to a house painter or an artist in the mid 18th century?]

Last updated 9 July 2011

A History of the Turner Family of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire

* The full article is currently available in PDF format and can be found here *

Contents

Index of Ancestors

Queries