The TURTON's

THE MEANING OF OUR NAME

(English) Habitational name from Turnton, a place in Lancashire
named from the Old Norse personal name
"þórr" (see Thor) + Old English "tun" ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

The surname is now as common in the Midlands as it is in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

The TURTON's

Around 1839 in St Helens in Merseyside Henry Turton and his wife had a baby boy that they named James.

HENRY TURTON (b.1810)
  married

JAMES (b.1839 St Helens, Lancashire)

When James was older he married Elizabeth also from St Helens.
James was reputed to be the railway engineer/driver who was in charge of Queen Victoria’s Royal Train on a number of occasions.

Together, 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 after moving south to Hampshire with the job on the railways Louisa was born (circa 1870) in Bishopstoke, near Eastleigh.

JAMES (b.1839 St Helens, Lancashire)
  married 1860 Prescott, Lancashire
ELIZABETH (b.1841 St Helens, Lancashire)

EMMA (b.1858 St Helens, Lancashire)

MARGARET (b.1861 St Helens, Lancashire)

MARY ELIZABETH (b.1863 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)

BEATRICE MARIA (b.1867)

LOUISA (b.1870 Bishopstoke, 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.