Wondering if anyone has any knowledge of or connection to this family:
William Turner and his wife Mary had the following children, all born in Little Stainton, in the parish of Bishopton:
Christopher (1805)
Moses (1806)
Ann (1809)
George (1811)
Mary (1814)
William (1819)
Hutchinson (January 1822 - presumably died very young)
Hutchinson (December 1822)
My ancestor is George, who went to work on the railways as a platelayer. In 1861, he was to be found in South Bedburn, working on a line which we believe was at that time being run across the lands of a (relatively) wealthy farmer, William Siddle. In 1864, George married the widowed daughter of that farmer, Ann Teasdale. He was unable to sign his name on his wedding certificate, giving us the impression of a fairly wide gap between his social status and that of Ann (who had attended boarding school)...
George and Ann had three children together - George Hutchinson, Margaret Ann, and Frances (my great-grandmother).
The information on George's siblings came from the parish records in the County Record Office in Durham. William (the father) apparently died some time before 1841, although Mary (the mother) can be found on both the 1841 and 1851 censuses. She gives her date of birth to be around 1783, and her place of birth to be South Church, then a village just outside Bishop Auckland. It seems at least possible that her name was Hutchinson, as otherwise it was an odd choice for the first name of her son. In 1851, she is listed as a pauper.
I also have possible (in some cases more than possible) marriages for several of George's brothers.
Any connections?
