Alexanderina
Still thinking about Captain Turner / Mary Turner (or her husband / Turner).
Captain Turner was born in Liverpool but his background was Irish as was Mary Turner's husband.
My great Aunt Peggy (Margaret Paterson) Russell - your aunt, Bute Scotland said, was adamant, that there was a connection between Captain Turner and Mercedes Desmore and her mother, Mary Turner (Paterson).
You say this myth has been dismissed. Do you have any data you could forward to me that could help / prove it hit an end point. If so I would really appreciate it.
I don't want to continue researching this area that is Captain Turner or his niece, the actress Mercedes Desmore, if it is an absolute waste of time.
Need your help here.
Also wondering about the family house (Victorian mansion I thought / saw) you say was left to James Paterson's son. I heard, from you previously, he and his mother came back to Scotland from Australia in the late 40's and left with nothing. I'm gobsmacked now! Totally lost!
To my mind the old aunties who owned the house died after James (late 40's) but before my grandfather (1953). This would seem to indicate my grandfather / his male heirs would inherit.
Alexanderina you say that Alexander, James's son, came home from Australia and sold it off in the 70's but it had been lying empty from the early 1950's and in such disrepair, until recently late 2010 when I last saw it, that there were warning / danger signs around the house. It was totally delapidated. I can't understand why a house James son sold in the 70's had lain empty for nearly 60 + years - 40 years plus from his sale of the house. He sold it 40 + years ago but no-one moved in. Strange to say the least. The bottom line is that this mansion, sale or not, had lain empty since the early 1950's. It's a real mystery.
I hope we make contact with Uncle James relatives, in Australia, to make sense of it all.
Regards.
Patty
