Turner Name Study

Profile managers: One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message] and Jennifer Turner [send private message]

How to Join

Please contact the project leader Jennifer Turner directly to let me know you are joining the study. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Note: I only respond to messages through WikiTree messaging so you must be a WikiTree genealogist

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname TURNER and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

How to participate in the study ("Task List")

1 - Please message me directly Jennifer Turner to alert me you are joining the Turner Name Study here on WikiTree. Welcome. (I only respond to messages through WikiTree so you must be a WikiTree geneologist)

2 - Visit the Turner Name Study Project Page (you are here) and add yourself to the members list below

3 - Add the Name Study Project Template Code to all your Turner profiles. This helps us raise awareness and increase collaboration by adding a project template to each profile included in the name study.

Name Study Project Template Code:

This profile is part of the Turner Name Study.

One Name Study | name =Turner | category =Turner_Name_Study (insert {x2 and }x2 bracketing to complete the code)

4 - Visit the Turner Name Study Project Page to collaborate and add your questions or research details to the bulletin board.

5 - Help to define Turner Name Study sub-Project areas of interest and help to drive the direction of this name study.

Origin

Occupational name for one who worked with a lathe, derived from Old English turnian "to turn", of Latin origin.

Related Surnames

ie potential misspellings, variants, etc.

TRAINER, TRENOR, DURNER, TOURNEUR, THORNER, TRENERY, URNER, THURMER, TURNURE, TURNOUR, TURNOR, TOURNEAR, TOURNIER, TURNEAURE, DERNER,

Members

Please add your name here and what "Turner" area(s) you are working on

Study Lead:

Jennifer Turner (study lead) - Turners from Aberdeenshire, Scotland and western Canada

A to Z Members:

Kathy Alvis Patterson - Turner family descended from James Turner, who died 1743 Caroline Co VA. Also Turner family descended from Roger Turner of Frederick Co VA, who died 1778 Surry Co NC.

Suzy Cairns My Turners start at my 3rd Great Grandmother Elizabeth Turner (1833-1908). My Turners are mostly in either East Lothian or the Scottish Borders.

Elinor (Philip) Clunie

Turner Collins Turners in Hall, Floyd, and Dawson Counties Georgia. William Daniel Turner, ca. 1828, SC, d. nov. 1974, Dawson County, GA. Also searching his wife, Eliza Ann Defreese, b. ca. 1832, SC, d. 1905, GA. Seeking any information on parents or siblings of this couple.

Deborah Dunn - Turners that are the ancestors of John ? and Sarah Nancy ?? Turner born in the 1790's in SC/NC. This family moved from SC in the late 1820's and moved into Henry County GA., then on to Gwinett Co. GA then on to Benton/Calhoun/Cleburne County AL in the 1840's to 1880's. Last Census that John was living was in 1830 in Gwinett Georgia. Census records beginning in Alabama show Sarah as head of household. So we do not know if he died in GA or AL, just that he was alive in 1830. I descend from a son of this family. Son of John William Turner and Sara Unknown, William Thomas Turner. Both John W. Turner and wife Sarah were born in SC according to the census records and family lore. We don't know John or Sarah's parents or any of their siblings. My father had his DNA done back in 1994 with the Family Tree Turner Surname Project. * (2) A second line of Turner Ancestors that lived in Illinois in the 1850/60's of Georgia Ann Turner born 1855 in Illinois, her parents died when she and her brother were children and were raised by unknown family. Georgia Ann married Samuel Cornelius Godwin in Arkansas or Tennessee, and she died in Savannah Tenn. and she is buried there in Mt. Hermon Cemetery. We have so many unknowns in our line and I have been searching to find these answers for 40 years. I need help. Can you help?

Janine Duran -

Carolyn GiaMarco -

Richard Hollenbeck -

Jim LaBossiere My mother's maiden name is Turner. She was born in Wales, but her father's line comes from Herefordshire and ultimately from Gloucestershire in England. I have many Turner profiles already added that I would like to add the Turner name study category to.

Rebecca McCall - Turner family from Georgia, United States

Tony Mitchell -

(Turner- 13269) Sherry (Turner) O'Neill - My 3rd great grandfather was Abraham Turner (1839-1909) from Staten Island, Richmond County, New York. I know his parents are John Turner and Julia Housman from his death certificate, but can't find the right John from New Jersey. He fought at the Battle of Antietam.

Bruce Paulson - Quaker, patriot & immigrant Turners in 1850's Pennsylvania who moved through 1820's New York, originating 1740's Connecticut (so far). Surely, there are earlier beginnings...

Theresa (Turner) Stewart - My Great Grandparents, Harry and Sarah Ann Turner came to Ontario Canada about 1912, from Yorkshire England. My Turner line as far as I haver gone back has been from Yorkshire.

Jill Snelling - researching my paternal grandmother's Turner line, have traced the line back to my 3rd great grandfather, born in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania in the 1820's, and am chipping away at the Turner brick wall

Crystal Stevenson - My 4th gr grandfather, William Turner, and his brother, Obadiah, were born in SC 1804 & 1809. They moved to Hickman TN around the same time the Forresters, Reeves, and Dunaways moved. Mine married Richard Forrester & Elizabeth Cotham's daughter Lucinda. His brother Obadiah married Lurannah (Rainey) Reeves. I have been unable to nail down who their Turner parents were. My grandfather is in his 90s and I am testing his Y dna this week. We have been accepted into the Turner DNA project, so hopefully that will give us some answers.

Dianne Turner -

James Turner -

Jennifer Turner (study lead)

Bev Weston -Turners from Castle Acre, Norfolk, England. Henry Turner and wife Lucy Springle came to Canada in 1903 from Norfolk, England.

Sharon Wetzel -

Kevin Turner I live in South Africa and am tracking my Turner ancestors in South Africa, England and Ireland.