Turner Family History
Turner Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a maker of objects of wood, metal, or bone by turning on a lathe, from Anglo-Norman French torner (Old French tornier, Latin tornarius, a derivative of tornus ‘lathe’). The surname may also derive from any of various other senses of Middle English turn, for example a turnspit, a translator or interpreter, or a tumbler.English: nickname for a fast runner, from Middle English turnen ‘to turn’ + ‘hare’.English: occupational name for an official in charge of a tournament, Old French tornei (in origin akin to 1).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from a place called Turno or Turna, in Poland and Belarus, or from the city of Tarnów (Yiddish Turne) in Poland.Translated or Americanized form of any of various other like-meaning or like-sounding Jewish surnames.South German (T(h)ürner): occupational name for a guard in a tower or a topographic name from Middle High German turn ‘tower’, or a habitational name for someone from any of various places named Thurn, for example in Austria.
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Name Distribution of Turner Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Turner families
 5,890 - 11,778  1,964 - 5,889 |
 1 - 1,963  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Turner families
|
659 - 1,315 220 - 658 |
1 - 219 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Turner Family Origin
Turner Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Turner Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Turner Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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