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Mary Ann arrived at Port Adelaide in 1856 on the Aurora when she was six years old. She grew up on Kangaroo Island. She married William Turner, a painter and decorator, on 4th January 1873 in Adelaide.
After Mary Ann married William Turner, they lived at Dairy Flat, Yankalilla and then Mt Barker.
They had eleven children, including:
1.) Given Name(s): William Alfred Last Name: TURNER Birth Year: 1873 Father: William Allen TURNER Mother: Mary Ann GRANGER District: Adelaide REG: 124/115
2.) Albert Leopold
3.) Given Name(s): Edith Alice Last Name: TURNER Birth Year: 1878 Father: W A TURNER Mother: Mary Ann GRANGER District: Yankalilla REG: 196/474 Mary Ann died in 1922 aged 72 . She is buried at the West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide. There is no headstone or grave marker. [1]
(m. TURNER, William Allen) SA BDM (Secondary evidence) Groom Given Name(s): William Allen Groom Last Name: TURNER Bride Given Name(s): Mary Ann Bride Last Name: GRANGER Marriage Date: 1873, January 04 Marriage Place: [unrecorded] Adelaide Groom Age: 30 Groom Approx. Birth Year: 1843 Groom Marital Status: S Groom Father: Daniel Wm TURNER Bride Age: 22 Bride Approx. Birth Year: 1851 Bride Marital Status: S Bride Father Name: George GRANGER District: Adelaide Book/Page: 94/49
SA BDM (Secondary evidence) Page: Ade 453 334 Text: Given Name(s): Mary Ann Last Name: TURNER Death Date: 21 Apr 1922 Gender: F Age: 71y Approx. Birth Year: 1851 Marital Status: W Relative 1: William Edward George Allen TURNER [DH] Relative 2: Residence: Parkside Death Place: Fulham District: Adelaide Symbol: Book/Page: 453/334
River, about eight miles from Kingscote ... is an old walnut tree. I think it must be almost 9O years old, as the late Mrs. John Wright (nee Emma Granger) told me as a child that when they came out from Erigland and settled on the island, her sister planted quite a number of the seeds of English plants and trees that they had brought with them. Two Old Trees Of Kangaroo Island (1945, March 22). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 30
b. 26 Aug 1850 Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, UK d. 22 Apr 1922 Fulham, Adelaide, SA, Australia e. Burial Adelaide Cemeteries Authority http://www.aca.sa.gov.au/record-search (Secondary evidence) Text: Turner Mary Ann 22/04/1922 71 Years FULLHAM [sic] West Terrace Cemetery Road 5, Path Number 26, A/E/W E, Site number 32 m. TURNER, William Allen 04 Jan 1873 Adelaide, SA, Australia d. 06 Jun 1919 Adelaide, SA
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Categories: Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire | Migrants from Cambridgeshire to South Australia | Aurora, Arrived 22 May 1856 | Assisted Immigrants from Cambridgeshire to Australia | Kangaroo Island, South Australia | West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia
The new skating rink has been opened, and on Wednesday evening of last week Professor Woods and Mrs. Turner, from Mount Barker, gave an exhibition of fancy skating. The acetylene lamps are a great improve ment." (Mt Barker Courier, 18 Oct 1909.) I would love to think this was my great grandmother, who would have learned to skate as a girl in England!