The TURTON's

Around 1839 in St Helens in Merseyside Henry Turton and his wife had a baby boy that they named James. When James was older he married Elizabeth also from St Helens and was reputed to be the railway engineer/driver who was in charge of Queen Victoria’s Royal Train on a number of occasions.
 

James and Elizabeth had five children, all girls; Emma (1858), Margaret (circa 1861) who later became a dressmaker, Mary Elizabeth (circa 1863) in Huddersfield and later became a cookwoman servant, Beatrice Maria (10 February 1867) who like her eldest sister took up dressmaking, and Louisa (circa 1870) in Bishopstoke, near Eastleigh in Hampshire.
 

By 1881 the family had moved to Andover where Emma had become a live-in maid at the 'Hart Inn' in Bridge Street. On the 30th July 1885 Emma married Walter Cobbett at St Mary's church, Andover. Walter worked at the Andover railway station.
 

In 1887 Beatrice Maria married Thomas Levy, the Clerk of the Court at Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and they lived at Andover where they had five children, and a sixth was born after they moved to Hungerford.
 

Margaret married Frank May but unfortunately he died only a few years later.
In 1906 Margaret Turton May, now widowed, and her nine year old son Reginald Victor May, together with Margaret's sister Mary Elizabeth Turton emigrated to settle in Pennsylvania in the United States of America.