Turner / Harper family Ruardean c1910 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, February 16, 2017, 21:21 (2837 days ago) @ Herbie007

Hi Jo, welcome to the forum & website.
You don't give any indication of dates, don't forget that we don't know your age, hence awkward to be sure abt yr grandparents. That said, your surnames aren't too commonplace, so hopefully will be straightforward to trace.

Currently the useful GlosBMD site is playing-up, so will use the FreeBMD site instead.
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
These sites should be accessible to you (are you in UK ?)

Finding;

Surname First name(s) Mother/Spouse/Age District Vol Page
Marriages Mar 1937 (>99%)
Greening Francis H Turner Westbury S. 6a 618
Turner Elizabeth E Greening Westbury S. 6a 618

So marriage was registered in the Quarter of Jan, Feb or March of 1937, within the Westbury On Severn District aka the "eastern" side of the FoD area.

It appears that Francis is from the Tewkesbury area, mother nee Forth ?
I GUESS this explains their move to Twyning, near Tewkesbury, after marrying ?.

Surname First name(s) Mother/Spouse/Age District Vol Page
Births Sep 1915 (>99%)
Greening Francis H Forth Tewkesbury 6a 719

As they were born post 1911, FreeBMD should give their offspring fairly easily, although things are "clouded" as there's another Greening/Turner partnership in Cheltenham area... ?

Here are ALL the relevant Greening/Turner Births from FreeBMD. Given that Francis was from Tewkesbury, does this mean that the Births registered in Cheltenham maybe be your family too, or is it only the FoDean one we need worry about ?. There are also some Hammersmith records too, are these relevant ?
That said, we'll be going back in time so maybe not relevant for now.

Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Jun 1921 (>99%)
Greening Muriel M Turner Cheltenham 6a 881

Births Sep 1937 (>99%)
Greening Francis H Turner Cheltenham 6a 610

Births Dec 1940 (>99%)
Greening Trevor H Turner F.of Dean 6a 708

Births Sep 1946 (>99%)
Greening Stephen T Turner Cheltenham 7b 586

???

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Similarly from FreeBMD, assuming Bet's from the Dean, we find this Record which seems a good fit datewise.

Surname First name(s) Mother/Spouse/Age District Vol Page
Births Mar 1917 (>99%)
Turner Elizabeth E Harper Westbury S. 6a 448

This looks a good possibility for her parents' marriage; it would be ideal if it's correct as that also "break"s us into the realm of the 10 yearly Census, the most recent that we can access being 1911, this should help us go back to the first in 1841.

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Dec 1909 (>99%)
HARPER Mary Ann Westbury S. 6a 589
TURNER Evan Westbury S. 6a 589

Which therefore lets us search all Births to Turner/Harper;
Not sure yet if these are ALL the same parents/family group, reassuring to see that several match the names you gave for Bet's siblings. It would be interesting for me to know whether you had their names from your own family records, or from research similar to this ?;

Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page

Births Dec 1912 (>99%)
TURNER Gladys Harper Westbury S. 6a 477

Births Mar 1917 (>99%)
Turner Elizabeth E Harper Westbury S. 6a 448

Births Sep 1921 (>99%)
TURNER Nora E Harper Westbury S. 6a 526

Births Mar 1923 (>99%)
Turner Evan R Harper Westbury S. 6a 472

Births Mar 1925 (>99%)
Turner Sidney W Harper Westbury S. 6a 420

Births Mar 1928 (>99%)
Turner Maurice L Harper Westbury S. 6a 413

Now we can also search for relevant Parish Records from this site's own Database, found from the blue banner menu across the top of the site's homepage, under "Resources".

Using the Advanced Search feature, can search for all Baptisms to parents named "Evan & Mary Turner", which helpfully find another which FreeBMD couldnt spot earlier as it's pre 1911.
http://forest-of-dean.net/joomla/index.php/advanced-search

Record_ID 164400
Entry_Number 644
Year 1910
Month Aug
Day 24
Parents_Surname TURNER
Child_Forenames Iris
Fathers_Forenames Evan
Mothers_Forenames Mary
Mothers_Surname
Residence Ruardean Woodside East Dean Gloucester
Occupation Collier
Officiating_Minister J. H. Batt
Event Baptism
Memoranda Knight's Hill Chapel
Notes
Register_Reference D2598 5/6
Page_Number 111
Parish_Chapel Forest of Dean Bible Christian
Soundex T656

Record_ID: 164522
Entry_Number: 763
Year: 1912
Month: Oct
Day: 9
Parents_Surname: TURNER
Child_Forenames: Gladys
Fathers_Forenames: Evan
Mothers_Forenames: Mary Ann
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: East Dean Gloucester
Occupation: Collier
Officiating_Minister: W. J. Smeeth
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Knight's Hill Chapel
Notes: Born Sep 10 1912
Register_Reference: D2598 5/6
Page_Number: 128
Parish_Chapel: Forest of Dean Bible Christian
Soundex: T656

Record_ID: 1004998
Entry_Number: 81
Year: 1921
Month: Jun
Day: 26
Parents_Surname: TURNER
Child_Forenames: Norah Evelyn
Fathers_Forenames: Evan
Mothers_Forenames: Mary Ann
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Ruardean Woodside
Occupation: [not stated
Officiating_Minister: F Geo Gatehouse
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Born May 29 1921
Notes:
Register_Reference: D2598 2/13
Page_Number: 25
Parish_Chapel: Cinderford Methodist
Soundex: T656

Record_ID 1058330
Entry_Number 96
Year 1923
Month Mar
Day 1
Parents_Surname TURNER
Child_Forenames Evan Ralph
Fathers_Forenames Evan
Mothers_Forenames Mary Ann
Mothers_Surname
Residence Ruardean Woodside
Occupation [not stated
Officiating_Minister F Geo Gatehouse
Event Baptism
Memoranda Born January 17 1923
Notes
Register_Reference D2598 2/13
Page_Number 28
Parish_Chapel Cinderford Methodist
Soundex T656

Record_ID 1059683
Entry_Number 123
Year 1925
Month Feb
Day 4
Parents_Surname TURNER
Child_Forenames Sidney William
Fathers_Forenames Evan
Mothers_Forenames Mary Ann
Mothers_Surname
Residence Ruardean Woodside
Occupation [not stated
Officiating_Minister Frederick Balch
Event Baptism
Memoranda Born Jan 8 1925
Notes
Register_Reference D2598 2/13
Page_Number 35
Parish_Chapel Cinderford Methodist
Soundex T656