BEAKLEY/TURLEY + BEAKLEY/EDWARDS (General)

by peteressex , Saturday, May 26, 2012, 09:00 (4571 days ago) @ m p griffiths

I might have known that as soon as the name Turley appeared I would emerge connected to this research, given the copious procreation involved. Those involved in this research may therefore be interested in the tree's further proliferations.

Towards the bottom of page 3 of the relevant link, http://www.turnpenny.info/Images%20(11)/Turley.pdf Edward Turley marries Mary Ann Sterry. She was a daughter of William Sterry and Ann nee Shaw, who were my gt-gt-gt-grandparents up my father's mother's line (where the spelling later became "Sterrey".)

There is some margin for interpretation and speculation, but I have it that Edward Turley and Mary Ann nee Sterry ran up 13 children. I haven't traced any of them there Turleys down the line, but it appears they managed a mere 4 girls and that their boys were, in order of appearance, William, Richard, Edwin, Charles, John, Thomas, David, James and possibly Frank.

You can hardly be surprised that eventually Richard Sterry (1879 Lydney - 1952 Tutnalls), a gt-grandson of William Sterry and Ann nee Shaw, and himself the second of 12 children, married a Lily Turley, of Old Furnace at Viney Hill. (This was his second marriage, but Richard by somewhat feeble comparison only appears to have begotten 10 children in the entire course.) I have Lily's father as John Turley whose wife's first name was Elizabeth. It would be fascinating if we could show that John Turley as identical with the John who was among the 8 or 9 sons of Edward and Mary Ann. The birth dates are viable - John born 1853 and Lily (from memory) 1894.

Descendants of Richard Sterry and Lily nee Turley, and of other Sterrys/Sterreys, continue to occupy stretches of Lydney, Whitecroft and Bream, whilst the conventionally traced head of this particular Sterry tree is Richard, birth date and place untraced, who married Ann Toomey (or similar) at Minsterworth in 1794. However, a recent DNA sample from a living Lydney Sterrey has proved a blood link to the more ancient Sterrys of Longhope, with a link thus to the mid-1600s. The golden egg would be proving a link to the most ancient of all known Sterrys, who were around at Ruardean in time for one of them to marry there in 1539, but, despite the geographical proximity, even DNA has yet to make that connection.

I started rambling too early on a Saturday morning and think I have now seen an answer to the John Turley connection by reading on a bit. Page 38 of the turnpenny link http://www.turnpenny.info/Images%20(11)/Turley.pdf appears to refer to the relevant Lily as Lilian and as the daughter of Emily, and indicates that Lilian was the grand-daughter of John Turley and Elizabeth (surname now seen as Morse) and not, as had been supposed, their daughter.