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From: "Helen Turnbull" <>
Subject: Re: Re: [Turnbull List] Canadian Turnbulls
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 20:24:16 +1000
References: <200301060133.h061XxX08203@mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au> <001901c2bdb6$399419e0$084afea9@123456>


Hi Corey

Thanks again for helping - I have had one positive lead from a family member
who confirmed that my grandfather was born in Vancouver, British Columbia,
c.1897. This at least focuses my search a bit.

cheers
Helen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corey Turnbull" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Turnbull List] Canadian Turnbulls


> I guess we struck out this time Helen, keep trying ! Surely someone out
> there has this information.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 8:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [Turnbull List] Canadian Turnbulls
>
>
> > Dear Corey
> >
> > Thank-you so much for your email - it has been really frustrating so far
> trying to
> > research my Dad's side of the family as he and his siblings seem to know
> so little
> > about their parents family background (for whatever reasons, it was kept
> hushed
> > up from the kids). I appreciate your help in this matter as it has got
me
> really
> > intrigued as to my family's background (hopefully not too many
skeleton's
> in the
> > closet will emerge!)
> >
> > I look forward to hearing any more information that may emerge,
> > thanks again for your help,
> >
> > regards
> > Helen Turnbull
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Corey Turnbull <> wrote:
> > >
> > > Helen,
> > >
> > > Some of your information comes close to a woman in BC we know. I have
> > > not
> > > talked to her in quite awhile, so I am trying to verify the email
> > > address
> > > before I put you in contact. Even if she cannot help
> > > directly....maybe she
> > > could steer you in the right direction.
> > >
> > > Her name is Bonnie Thompson, and while the dates seem a little
> > > out..the
> > > names do line up a little. Her records show a John with a father of
> > > George -> who had a father of William. This could explain the middle
> > > name of
> > > your George. BUT - as we have joked about , there seems to have only
> > > been 5
> > > names passed around the Turnbull for most the 1800's.
> > >
> > > Can't promise anything, but this is a great place to start. With
> > > members
> > > worldwide, you can't help but run into cousins at some point.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Helen Turnbull <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:58 PM
> > > Subject: [Turnbull List] Canadian Turnbulls
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello everyone
> > > >
> > > > I am new to this list, I have just started trying to track down my
> > > Turnbull ancestors, which is proving a bit difficult as my father
> > > (John
> > > James Turnbull of Hitchin, England, b. 1926) has very little
> > > information
> > > about his family. According to his birth certificate, his father was
> > > George
> > > William Turnbull (who married a Scotswoman, Ruby Kennedy), and my Dad
> > > believes his father came from British Columbia, Canada, and emigrated
> > > to
> > > England, after he came over during WW1 with the Canadian Forestry
> > > Corps. My
> > > grandfather was a woodworker machinist by trade and apparently was in
> > > partnership with someone in Canada running a lumber company.
> > > >
> > > > We have no information regarding his birthdate, marriage date etc,
> > > though
> > > we know he died in Devon, England around 1960. If anyone has any
> > > information
> > > about the Turnbulls in British Columbia that would be very helpful.
> > > (I have
> > > checked the 1881 Canadian Census and did find a William Turnbull, 33,
> > > originally from England who was a carpenter, who married a Jessie
> > > Turnbull,
> > > 22, originally from England, living in New Westminster, British
> > > Columbia.)
> > > However, no children of theirs were listed on that census.
> > > >
> > > > Thank-you
> > > > Helen Turnbull (Brisbane, Australia).
> > > >
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