Turnbull Clan Genealogy Collection

Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull

M, #35026, b. 22 June 1852, d. 15 August 1896
Last Edited 25 May 2017
ReferencesThomas Turnbull b. c1740, Isle of Man, Scotland - Turnbull's of Pictou Co., Nova Scotia

 

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Parents

FatherWilliam Turnbull (b. about 1810)
MotherMargaret Cunningham

BMDB Events

BirthAlexander (Andrew) Turnbull was born on 22 June 1852 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.1
MarriageHe married Jane (Jessie) McLeod on 17 May 1872 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull was, age 19, Jane (Jessie) McLeod was, age ~23.1
MarriageHe married Rebecca about 1887 in Canada. Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull was, age ~35, Rebecca was, age ~38.2
DeathHe died on 15 August 1896 at age 44 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.1

Other Life Events

Living (fam)Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull was living in 1881 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.3
Living (fam)He was living in 1891 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.2

Family 1: Jane (Jessie) McLeod (b. 1849, d. about 1885)

DaughterMary Robina Turnbull (b. 1873)
SonJohn A. Turnbull (b. 12 December 1874)
SonAlexander Turnbull (b. about 1877, d. 1917)
SonObadiah Robert "Bob" Turnbull+ (b. 7 March 1878, d. about 1956)
DaughterEthel Eliza Turnbull+ (b. 12 August 1881, d. June 1959)

Family 2: Rebecca (b. 1849)

DaughterAnnie Louisa Turnbull (b. about 1888)

Citations

  1. [S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased), File # T-0450 ABBR TURNBULL, S.J
  2. [S1793] 1891 Canada Census, Name: Andrew TurnbullGender: MaleMarital Status: MarriedAge: 40Birth Year: abt 1851Birthplace: Nova ScotiaRelation to Head of House: HeadReligion: Church of EnglandFrench Canadian: NoFather's Birth Place: Nova ScotiaMother's Birth Place: Nova ScotiaProvince: Prince Edward IslandDistrict Number: 135District: QueensSubdistrict: Charlottetown RoyaltyHousehold Members: Name AgeAndrew Turnbull 40Rebecca Turnbull 42Mary Lavine Turnbull 18John Andrew Turnbull 17Jas Alexande Turnbull 15Obadiah Turnbull 13Eliza Ethel Turnbull 11Annie Louisa Turnbull 3 ABBR 1881 British Census
  3. [S1723] 1881 Canadian Census, Name: Andrew TurnbullGender: MaleMarital Status: MarriedAge: 29Birth Year: 1852Birthplace: Nova ScotiaReligion: Church of EnglandNationality: EnglishOccupation: LaborerProvince: Prince Edward IslandDistrict Number: 2District: QueensSub-District Number: ASubdistrict: Charlottetown RoyaltyDivision: 1Household Members: Name AgeAndrew Turnbull 29Jessie Turnbull 30Mary R. Turnbull 8John A. Turnbull 6Alexander Turnbull 4Obadiah Turnbull 3Eliza Turnbull 8/12 ABBR 1881 British Census

Jane (Jessie) McLeod

F, #35027, b. 1849, d. about 1885
Last Edited 25 May 2017
ReferencesThomas Turnbull b. c1740, Isle of Man, Scotland - Turnbull's of Pictou Co., Nova Scotia

 

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BMDB Events

BirthJane (Jessie) McLeod was born in 1849 in Murray River, Prince Edward Island, Canada.1
MarriageShe married Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull on 17 May 1872 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Jane (Jessie) McLeod was, age ~23, Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull was, age 19.1
DeathShe died about 1885 at age ~36 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.1,2
BurialShe was buried about 1885 at Peoples Cemetery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Other Life Events

Living (fam)Jane (Jessie) McLeod was living in 1881 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.3

Family: Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull (b. 22 June 1852, d. 15 August 1896)

DaughterMary Robina Turnbull (b. 1873)
SonJohn A. Turnbull (b. 12 December 1874)
SonAlexander Turnbull (b. about 1877, d. 1917)
SonObadiah Robert "Bob" Turnbull+ (b. 7 March 1878, d. about 1956)
DaughterEthel Eliza Turnbull+ (b. 12 August 1881, d. June 1959)

Citations

  1. [S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased), File # T-0450 ABBR TURNBULL, S.J
  2. [S53] Family Member, Barbara J. Schell, Johnson City, TN ABBR Family Member
  3. [S1723] 1881 Canadian Census, Name: Andrew TurnbullGender: MaleMarital Status: MarriedAge: 29Birth Year: 1852Birthplace: Nova ScotiaReligion: Church of EnglandNationality: EnglishOccupation: LaborerProvince: Prince Edward IslandDistrict Number: 2District: QueensSub-District Number: ASubdistrict: Charlottetown RoyaltyDivision: 1Household Members: Name AgeAndrew Turnbull 29Jessie Turnbull 30Mary R. Turnbull 8John A. Turnbull 6Alexander Turnbull 4Obadiah Turnbull 3Eliza Turnbull 8/12 ABBR 1881 British Census

Mary Robina Turnbull

F, #35028, b. 1873
Last Edited 25 May 2017
ReferencesThomas Turnbull b. c1740, Isle of Man, Scotland - Turnbull's of Pictou Co., Nova Scotia

 

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Parents

FatherAlexander (Andrew) Turnbull (b. 22 June 1852, d. 15 August 1896)
MotherJane (Jessie) McLeod (b. 1849, d. about 1885)

BMDB Events

BirthMary Robina Turnbull was born in 1873 in Nova Scotia, Canada.1,2

Other Life Events

WitnessMary Robina Turnbull was residing in the household of Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull who was living in 1881 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.3

Citations

  1. [S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased), File # T-0450 ABBR TURNBULL, S.J
  2. [S53] Family Member, Barbara J. Schell, Johnson City, TN ABBR Family Member
  3. [S1723] 1881 Canadian Census, Name: Andrew TurnbullGender: MaleMarital Status: MarriedAge: 29Birth Year: 1852Birthplace: Nova ScotiaReligion: Church of EnglandNationality: EnglishOccupation: LaborerProvince: Prince Edward IslandDistrict Number: 2District: QueensSub-District Number: ASubdistrict: Charlottetown RoyaltyDivision: 1Household Members: Name AgeAndrew Turnbull 29Jessie Turnbull 30Mary R. Turnbull 8John A. Turnbull 6Alexander Turnbull 4Obadiah Turnbull 3Eliza Turnbull 8/12 ABBR 1881 British Census

John A. Turnbull

M, #35029, b. 12 December 1874
Last Edited 25 May 2017
ReferencesThomas Turnbull b. c1740, Isle of Man, Scotland - Turnbull's of Pictou Co., Nova Scotia

 

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Parents

FatherAlexander (Andrew) Turnbull (b. 22 June 1852, d. 15 August 1896)
MotherJane (Jessie) McLeod (b. 1849, d. about 1885)

BMDB Events

BirthJohn A. Turnbull was born on 12 December 1874 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.1,2

Other Life Events

WitnessJohn A. Turnbull was residing in the household of Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull who was living in 1881 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.3

Citations

  1. [S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased), File # T-0450 ABBR TURNBULL, S.J
  2. [S53] Family Member, Barbara J. Schell, Johnson City, TN ABBR Family Member
  3. [S1723] 1881 Canadian Census, Name: Andrew TurnbullGender: MaleMarital Status: MarriedAge: 29Birth Year: 1852Birthplace: Nova ScotiaReligion: Church of EnglandNationality: EnglishOccupation: LaborerProvince: Prince Edward IslandDistrict Number: 2District: QueensSub-District Number: ASubdistrict: Charlottetown RoyaltyDivision: 1Household Members: Name AgeAndrew Turnbull 29Jessie Turnbull 30Mary R. Turnbull 8John A. Turnbull 6Alexander Turnbull 4Obadiah Turnbull 3Eliza Turnbull 8/12 ABBR 1881 British Census

Alexander Turnbull

M, #35030, b. about 1877, d. 1917
Last Edited 14 November 2022
ReferencesThomas Turnbull b. c1740, Isle of Man, Scotland - Turnbull's of Pictou Co., Nova Scotia

 

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Parents

FatherAlexander (Andrew) Turnbull (b. 22 June 1852, d. 15 August 1896)
MotherJane (Jessie) McLeod (b. 1849, d. about 1885)

BMDB Events

BirthAlexander Turnbull was born about 1877 in Nova Scotia, Canada.1
DeathHe died in 1917 at age ~40 at East River in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.2

Other Life Events

WitnessAlexander Turnbull was residing in the household of Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull who was living in 1881 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.3
AnecdoteALEXANDER TURNBULL, born 1877. He returned to Pictou Co., worked in the Albion mine and lived in Stellarton where he was killed by a train in 1917. He was crossing the railway bridge across the East River when hit by a train from Sidney and his body was thrown all the way to Lourdes Station. His children include James L. born 1905, Annie, Andrew, Gerald born Mar. 18, 1911 (son of Alexander Turnbull, miner, and Mary; baptism no. 1287 Christ Church, Stellarton) and Robert (information from Elsie, Mrs.John Elmer Esling, Stellarton, daughter of James L. Tumbull). His four sons followed him into coal mining.
James Turnbull. 78, of Coll Ave., Stellarton, died June 3, 1983. He was survived by his wife nee Martha Foster (married 1927) and by 3 daughters, 7 sons, 23 grand children and 7 g.g.children. He was a coal miner and a drummer with the Pictou Highlanders Pipe Band (from obituary, New Glasgow Evening News, June 4, 1983). James Turnbull is the subject of a chapter in Coal In Our Blood, 200 Years of coal mining in Nova Scotia's Pictou County, by Judith Hoegg Ryan, Formac Pub. Co. Ltd, Halifax, 1992, 146 pp. The chapter includes a photo of James and Martha. On his father's death and at age l3 he started work in the MacGreagor Mine at a place called Cassidy's Sinking, a tunnel to a deeper part of the mine that was driven by master miner Alonzo Cassidy.

Citations

  1. [S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased), File # T-0450 ABBR TURNBULL, S.J
  2. [S1827] Dexter Reid Sampson, "Family Tree - Early Records of the Turnbull and Cassidy Families of East River and McCellans Brook , Pictou Co., N.S., With Descendants On the Miramichi, Bay of Chaleur and Magdalen Islands.", 2001 (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Hereinafter cited as "Early Records of Turnbull and Cassidy Families of Pictou, NS."
  3. [S1723] 1881 Canadian Census, Name: Andrew TurnbullGender: MaleMarital Status: MarriedAge: 29Birth Year: 1852Birthplace: Nova ScotiaReligion: Church of EnglandNationality: EnglishOccupation: LaborerProvince: Prince Edward IslandDistrict Number: 2District: QueensSub-District Number: ASubdistrict: Charlottetown RoyaltyDivision: 1Household Members: Name AgeAndrew Turnbull 29Jessie Turnbull 30Mary R. Turnbull 8John A. Turnbull 6Alexander Turnbull 4Obadiah Turnbull 3Eliza Turnbull 8/12 ABBR 1881 British Census

Ethel Eliza Turnbull

F, #35031, b. 12 August 1881, d. June 1959
Last Edited 25 May 2017
ReferencesThomas Turnbull b. c1740, Isle of Man, Scotland - Turnbull's of Pictou Co., Nova Scotia

 

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Parents

FatherAlexander (Andrew) Turnbull (b. 22 June 1852, d. 15 August 1896)
MotherJane (Jessie) McLeod (b. 1849, d. about 1885)

BMDB Events

BirthEthel Eliza Turnbull was born on 12 August 1881 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.1,2,3
MarriageShe married John Cliford Leslie about 1900 in Nova Scotia, Canada. Ethel Eliza Turnbull was, age ~19, John Cliford Leslie was, age ~17.2,4
DeathShe died in June 1959 at age 77.4

Other Life Events

WitnessEthel Eliza Turnbull was residing in the household of Alexander (Andrew) Turnbull who was living in 1881 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.5

Family: John Cliford Leslie (b. 1883, d. September 1968)

SonGeorge Leslie (b. 18 April 1902, d. 1982)
DaughterLillian Leslie (b. 8 May 1904, d. April 1953)
SonDavid Leslie (b. 10 June 1905, d. 2 January 1995)
SonWilliam Leslie (b. 6 July 1906, d. July 1958)
DaughterMabel Leslie (b. 31 July 1908, d. 1959)
SonAlbert Leslie (b. 13 July 1911, d. 6 November 1969)
DaughterEva Leslie (b. 2 November 1912, d. 2 September 1983)
DaughterEthel Leslie (b. 17 October 1914, d. 7 July 2002)
SonDan Leslie (b. 14 April 1916, d. 11 May 1992)
SonWilfred Leslie (b. 17 November 1925, d. 25 May 1977)
SonClifford Leslie (b. 26 February 1926, d. 1 February 1990)

Citations

  1. [S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased), File # T-0450 ABBR TURNBULL, S.J
  2. [S53] Family Member, Barbara J. Schell, Johnson City, TN ABBR Family Member
  3. [S2132] FamilySearch, online, 1881 Census PEI. Hereinafter cited as FamilySearch.
  4. [S1686] Janet Turnbull Schwierking, "E-Mail from Janet Turnbull Schwierking," e-mail message from email address (Texas, USA) to Brian Turnbull, 2008. Hereinafter cited as "E-Mail - Janet Turnbull Schwierking."
  5. [S1723] 1881 Canadian Census, Name: Andrew TurnbullGender: MaleMarital Status: MarriedAge: 29Birth Year: 1852Birthplace: Nova ScotiaReligion: Church of EnglandNationality: EnglishOccupation: LaborerProvince: Prince Edward IslandDistrict Number: 2District: QueensSub-District Number: ASubdistrict: Charlottetown RoyaltyDivision: 1Household Members: Name AgeAndrew Turnbull 29Jessie Turnbull 30Mary R. Turnbull 8John A. Turnbull 6Alexander Turnbull 4Obadiah Turnbull 3Eliza Turnbull 8/12 ABBR 1881 British Census

Robert Wilson Turnbull

M, #35032, b. about 1910
Last Edited 25 May 2017

 

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BMDB Events

BirthRobert Wilson Turnbull was born about 1910 in Dumfries-shire, Scotland.1

Citations

  1. [S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased), File # T-0451 ABBR TURNBULL, S.J