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Topic: Harriet Turley in Shropshire (Read 189 times)
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sgrollitt
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My partner's great-great-grandmother was Harriet Turley. She was born about 1826 in the Ludow area in Shropshire. She married William Oakley on 26 April 1847 in Broseley, Shropshire. Harriet is thought to have been a Romany gypsy fruit picker from Leintwardine on the Herefordshire/Shropshire border. We would love to find more about Harriet and her parents and brothers/sisters.
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sgrollitt
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We don't actually have the marriage certificate.
Although the family story goes that Harriet was a Romany fruit picker from Leintwardine, William Turley and Jane had the following children in Broseley:
- Thomas Turley bap.21 Jan 1827 at St Leonards
- Friend Turley bap.30 Mar 1828 at St Leonards
So William and Jane could also have been Harriet's parents. Harriet could possibly have been picking fruit in Leintwardine when her future husband William Oakley met her, and the story has become different along the way.
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sgrollitt
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On the IGI, Harriet Turley was born in 1826 in Leintwardine and was a miller at the time of her marriage in 1847. Her husband William was a teacher at that time.
In 1871 at Bottom Coal, Broseley lived:
- William OAKLEY, Head, 45, b.Much Wenlock, Carter
- Harriet Oakley, 45 (therefore b.1826), wife, b.Leintwardine, Herefordshire
- George OAKLEY, son, 20, S, b.Barrow, horse driver
- William OAKLEY, son, 18, S, b.Broseley, horse driver
- Edwin OAKLEY, son, 16, b.Broseley, horse driver
- Frederick OAKLEY, son, 14, b.Broseley, scholar
- Harriet OAKLEY, dau, 10, b.Broseley, scholar
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sgrollitt
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It looks like Harriet Turley was related to the Turley family of Willey, Shropshire, but probably wasn't one of William and Jane's children because Harriet was born at Leintwardine in Herefordshire. But who was the Harriet Turley you found in 1841 aged 10 working nearby as a servant to the Griffiths family? She should have been 15 in 1841 not 10.
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sgrollitt
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I received Harriet Turley's marriage certificate on which it said she was a miller at the time (1847). Harriet's father was just shown as Turley. He was also a miller. So the Turley's sound a fairly settled family of millers - not a particularly Romany gypsy-like occupation. I wonder if the family story that Harriet was a Romany gypsy became transmuted and the truth is that she came from a family descended from gypsy stock a few generations back.
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