Data is available for this line beginning further back, but this seems a good place to start for this discussion.
Caleb Turner b. 16 Aug 1691
1713 m. Rachael Dwelley b. 27 Sep 1695, dau. of John
They had:
Caleb, Jr. 1715; bpt. 24 Mar 1722/3Caleb Turner, Jr. m. 1 May 1739 Ruth Briggs b. 1714, dau of Cornelius
Rachael 1718; bpt. "
Content 1720; bpt. "
Grace 1722; bpt. "
Simeon bpt. 19 Jul 1724
Priscilla bpt. 15 May 1726
Marlborough bpt. 5 Sep 1731
Susanna 1731; bpt. 12 Mar 1732/3
Abner bpt. 1 Sep 1734
Lydia bpt. 19 Dec 1734
They had:
Lucinda 27 Sep 1740Cornelius Turner (I have no record of children with Michal Sylvester. She died before 1782, about when Cornelius Turner married a widow in Waldoboro, ME.)
Cornelius 5 May 1742; m. 8 Dec 1768 Michal Sylvester 8 Dec 1768
Briggs 19 Feb 1744
Caleb 8 Nov 1746
Ruth 10 Oct 1748
Alexander 1 Aug 1750; m. 25 Dec 1794 Anna Soule (Waldoboro, ME)
Barker 21 Oct 1752
Robert 1 Feb 1756
(from History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro: The Influx of Puritans, pp. 422-423):
"The original Turner family in Waldoborough comprised three brothers, Briggs, Caleb, and Captain Cornelius, of whom the latter was the outstanding member. On May 21, 1774, he and his brother Briggs of "Hanover in the County of Plymouth, shipwrights" purchased of Mr. Richard Jones of Bristol for 360/13/4 a one hundred and fity-acre tract in Bristol on the Damariscotta River (Lincoln County Deeds, Book 11, p. 41). These were men of some capital, experienced shipbuilders who were looking for a favorable site for operations in Maine. The location on the Damariscotta River apparently did not suit their purposes, and they decided to shift to Waldoborough. On Sept 29, 1784, George Klein sold to Briggs Turner of Bristol his Lot No. 19 on the west side of the river, for 160/0/0. In December of the same year Capt. Cornelius Turner bought of Jacob Achorn his farm on the west side, Lot No. 15, containing seventy-five acres(ibid., Book 18, p. 122). This was a portion of the old Rodney Creamer farm lying just south of the wharf where Thomas Creamer used to build boats a half century and more ago. It is the probable site of the shipbuilding activities of the Turner brothers, and as such, one of the first shipyards on the river. The third brother, Caleb, seems to have acquired the Augustus Hyer place on the border of Bremen, for on February 16, 1803, he and his wife, Margaret, sold the property to John Miller and George Hyer, a son of Conrad, each a half interest. From that time the farm remained in possession of the Heyer family down to 1948 when the great-grandchildren of George Heyer sold the farm to Capt. Clinton Harriman.
Captain Cornelius married Abigail Cole, the widow of Levi Soule, and by this union joined to his own land the farm of his wife which was next south of his." The known children of this union were:
Nathaniel 15 May 1783Nathaniel Turner, son of Cornelius, married Sarah Hamblin, b. 1789, 30 December 1813.
Michel (dau) 19 Mar 1785
Caleb 29 Oct 1787
By 1820, he appears in Hampden, Penobscot Co., Maine. He is still there in 1830, and in the 1837 census of Hampden, his family looked as follows:
John [M.] b. 1817; m. int. at Hampden, Sarah G. Deane 16 Aug 1846From the Hampden town records we know that there was another son, Nathaniel, Jr., who was born in 1814/5 and died 4 May 1837.
Elisa
Sally
Cephus
Cornelius (twin, b. 1821); probably died young.
Calvin [B.] (twin, b. 1821); m. Ruth Crosby [Turner], b. Feb 1828; d. 3 Nov 1878
All of the above children are accounted for in the 1830 census.
John M. Turner died on 2 June 1856, aged 39 years, and his wife Sarah G. [Deane] Turner died 12 December 1880, aged 53 years (g.r.).
In 1850, Nathaniel (a shipbuilder) and Sarah H. Turner were living in the household of their son Calvin B. (a truckman) and his wife Ruth C., though in a separate dwelling. By this time, Calvin and Ruth had had a son, aged about 10 months:
Nathaniel B[ailey] Turner b. c 1849/50(According to the I.G.I., Cephas Webster Turner, b. 1866 and d. 1920, of Hampden was the son of Calvin B. and Ruth Crosby Turner.Later, another son was born to Calvin and Ruth:
Herbert E. Turner b. 1854
Also living in this household is a 17-year old girl, Betsey H. Turner, who was probably the daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah H. (b. 1833). It is possible that she was named after Betsey Holbrook Turner (d. 1832), the wife of Cephas Turner of Hampden, whom I discuss below.
When Nathaniel Turner appears in Hampden in 1820, Cephas Turner is also listed in the federal census as head of household with two females, one about 18 years old and the other older. According to his gravestone, Cephas Turner was born in 1794, and other Hampden records indicate that he came to Hampden from Waldoboro.
He married Betsey Holbrook, daughter of Samuel and Ruth Swett Holbrook, of Hampden, probably around 1819/20.
In 1822, Cephas Turner was taxed $10.20 for two acres of pasturage at $20, and one dwelling house at $150. He and his family are in the 1830 federal census for Hampden with two boys and two girls, but are not listed in the 1837 Hampden census, in which a Cephas Turner, Jr. is listed with John and Catherine Rice's family along with a Henry S. Brown. These boys were probably apprenticed or working for the family. Cephas is again listed in the 1840 census. Betsey Holbrook Turner, Cephas's first wife, died 27 August, 1832 (g.r.). On the first of February, 1840, marriage intentions were recorded in Hampden between Cephas Turner of Hampden and Mrs. Mary D. Cooper of Bangor. According to other records, Mary D. Turner was born in 1797/8, so Cephas Turner, Sr. is more than likely the one named here. Mary apparently died sometime between 1850 and 1860. Cephas Turner has not been found in the 1850 census, but does appear again in Hampden in 1860. He died 16 Sep 1865 and is buried in Locust Grove Cemetery in a lot he co-owned with his son-in-law Henry Norwood.
Cephas Turner and Betsey Holbrook had the following children:
Lucy E. b. 1821The death record of Ruth Crosby Turner is interesting. Ruth C. Turner does not appear in any other records as a daughter of Cephas Turner and Betsey Holbrook. She must have been born after her grandmother's marriage to Ebenezer Crosby on 5 Feb 1828. According to this death record, Cephas Turner was born in Waldoboro, Maine. The death record also indicates that Ruth was married at the time of her death. According to the I.G.I., Film Nos. 451032, 457061, and 456338; Ref# 65251, Ruth Crosby Turner was the wife of Calvin Bailey Turner, who was probably her first cousin (I don't know who submitted this information or its source).
Cephas, Jr. b. 13 Sep 1822; d. 7 Oct 1901
Betsey b. 1823 unm.
Sarah G. b. 1824
Ruth C[rosby] b. Feb 1828; d. 13 Nov 1878 at Hampden of consumption
Caroline H. b. 30 June 1830; d. 14 Jul 1869 unm.
Lucy E. Turner m. George A. Rice before 1850 and they had:
Sarah A. b. 1851Sarah G. Turner m. Henry Norwood in 1844 (see Norwood database for details).
Frederick R. b. 1859/60
Henry Norwood probably spent some of his youth in or near Cushing, Maine where his father lived in 1790. He was a sea captain, and it is possible that his family was acquainted with the Turners of Waldoboro and vicinity, though for his first wife he married Sarah Page Pool of Rockport, Mass., his hometown. What drew him to Hampden was probably his Pool relatives with whom he was in business until his death in 1854. Early in the probate of Henry Norwood's estate, it was the Pools who provided bond money and helped Sarah with its administration, but by 1855, the Turners appear on probate documents; viz., in March, Calvin B. Turner and Joseph Wardwell as sureties against the sale of real estate, Nathaniel Turner witnessing, and in November, Calvin B. Turner and Cephas Turner as sureties against the sale of real estate, Joseph Wardwell witnessing. Caroline Turner and Nathaniel Turner had bills owing them from the estate. I do not know Joseph Wardwell's relationship to the family.
Sarah G. Turner's Photo Album of 1867
In the following generation, we find a number of Turners in Hampden whose genealogy may be guessed, but at the moment is not clear to me:
John A. Turner m. 25 Jun 1892 Rose Barker (1875-1905) and they had:
Ruth Turner (1898-1907)Frank Calvin Turner (1866-1914) m. 26 Jun 1906 Katherine P. Hardy of Bangor. [I think he is the son of Calvin B. and Ruth C. Turner.] He was a Barber
Cephas Turner, Jr. of San Francisco, CA m. 10 Nov 1859 V[ienna] Bell Webster of Sanford Maine and Woburn, MA.
Apparently, Cephas, Jr. went to California in the Gold Rush (1849) and he has left behind a journal and account book with details about the voyage by ship and the people he traveled with. At that time he was a carpenter.
Cephas and Vienna and family appear in the 1880 US Census for San Francisco with two sons:
George Webster Turner, b. 25 Nov 1860; d. 21 Jan 1923Cephas Webster Turner (1866-1920) m. 30 Nov 1895 Rosa A. Butler [aka Downes] at Hampden. He was an artist. Son of Calvin B. and Ruth C. Turner, but I wonder: Wouldn't it be more likely that he was the son of Cephas Turner and V. Bell Webster? There is a gap of ten years between George Webster Turner and his brother Arthur, which leaves room for at least four children. Something for further investigation.Arthur C. Turner, b. 1869/70. Arthur was in the class of 1888 at the Boys High School in San Francisco.
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