In 1861 Helena married Thomas Young a Grocer and a widower with one daughter. They had two children. Helena died in 1903 aged 72. Ann married James Anderson and had two children. She died in 1864.

Elizabeth died c 1849. Isabella died in 1848 at the age of 22. Jane died in 1865 aged 35 and Mary in 1859 aged 25.

There were two other children Mathew who is believed to have died in infancy and Richard the eldest son who had arrived in Australia by 1860.

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We are people of the world, we are of the family of Turnbull and all of it’s varied spellings. We are proud, stubborn, and fight for what we believe. We love our families, country and ancestry.

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Hands across the sea after 71 years

By ALFRED C. JONES
Capital Journal Reporter, c 1978

Their roots go back to Scotch clan. John B. “Jack” Turnbull, left, 82 a Scotland native from North Ireland, and his brother, Jim, 84, Salem, hold the family coat of arms, which is based on the 14^th Century rescue by a Turnbull of Robert Bruce, liberator and King of Scotland. The brothers were reunited last week after not seeing each other for 71 years

When John B. (Jack) Turnbull, 82, arrived here from North Ireland he was “hugged to death” in an airport reunion with Jim, the 84-year-old Salem brother he hadn’t seen for 71 years.

Jim said he “spotted Jack right-away, from a picture received two years ago and because they are like two beans in a pod.”

So the Turnbulls last week began rekindling the family affection during the 16 day visit and unraveling the mystery of why they hadn’t visited each other since that wistful day when the 12 year old Jim Turnbull, in a velvet suit and carrying a tote bag, said goodbye in the Clydebank, Scotland, depot.

They scored a near-miss in France in World War 1, when Jack was in the British 1st Cavalry Division and Jim was in a US. Army Engineer unit either riding hard-tired trucks or foot slogging in hole-soled shoes.

Unknown to either, Jim, for a time, was in the same British sector in which Jack was tending to his horse.

The reunion brought questions from the Salem dwelling Jim about the latest on their sister, Christine, Paisley, 77, who had a stroke recently, and couldn’t accompany Jack. She wasn’t born yet when the family picture was taken that Jim dug up last week in their Keizer home at 5355 River Road N., but she has done most of the, corresponding in intervening years.

That 1899 photograph in-a Glasgow studio showed Jack, about 3, in his mother’s lap and Jim, 5, standing beside his older brother George, in a thee-piece suit. George died at 19.

Both Jim and Jack were born in Clydebank, a suburb of Glasgow, and “gravitated” to North Ireland in 1905, with their businessman father. A year later, “like a kid,” Jim said, he decided to go to America to stay with an uncle and aunt in Hope, N. D. for several years. He never returned to Scotland

Jim moved on to Oregon, where he retired in 1960 as senior evaluator in, the financial responsibility section of the state Motor Vehicles Division.

Jim and his wife Christine, have a son and five grandchildren, helping to carry on the Turnbull name. Jack also has a son and four grandchildren. He’s visited that son in Springfield. Mo., several times but never came on west to Oregon.

Jack retired as manager in a Canadian owned aluminum plant in North Ireland. He plans to leave May 18 for Los Angeles, then for home June 11 to tell sister Christine about “the loving and caring and hospitality I’ve had. ‘‘It’s amazing - out of this world.”