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Thank you Paul for your input.

It just goes to show that we have to keep looking. I hadn't searched for Brewood Hall for over 12mths. Jan's information and photos were very welcome as I couldn't get a good look at the place.

Encouraged by this I again searched Turner & Emery and came up with the website of the Brewood Church and it's grave information. A wealth of information is now at hand.

I now have both parents of John Turners wife Ann
(D184&5) EMERY Elizabeth 1708 - 1742 wife of EMERY William 1687 - 1767 .. No other information except he was a Brewood Timbermerchant. He must have been successful to have leased Brewood Hall say around the early 1700's.

The Turners have a Box Tomb (Section D 129) containing
TURNER Walter 1732-1766 .. I can only presume this is a brother to my John Turner.
All the others I expected to be there except mention of a Samuel E. MERY wife of Sarah (nee Turner) 1740 - 1804.
I puzzled over this for some time as my records show her as married to a John Glover. It was then I noticed that the Elizabeth Emery headstone (see above) has a difficult to read mention of "Samuel Emery" ... Possibly the person who wrote the information from the headstone could have put a dot in the "EMERY" name making it "E. MERY". I'd be grateful if somebody could take a look for me???

My quest is now to find two things:
1) The parents of John & Walter Turner. Sons of a Staffordshire Lawyer. Any suggestions of where to start?
2) The identity of the person mentioned on the headstone (Area F 63) "To the memory of ANN TURNER of Brewood Cottage who died May 8th 1835" .... I can only imagine that "Brewood Cottage" is an outbuilding of Brewood Hall. Can anybody confirm this?

Any assistance would be greatfully received.

Rob

I'm new to the site so I hope I'm posting here correctly.
I've been researching my tree for a couple of years now and have come up against a few brick walls. I have several branches now in trouble however if I start with an interesting one it may be easier. All my information has just been obtained from general internet searches without much further "professional" input.
Lets start with TURNER John (yes the potter) 1738 - 1787. Died Brewood Hall Brewood, Staffordshire. Information on the net as well as the Book "Turners of Lane End" indicate that he was born there as well however I don't believe it. I don't believe that the Turners ever owned it but it appears that several generations were raised there. From my research I have found mention of it being leased in the early 1700's to EMERY William (Timber Merchant) whose daughter, Ann married John Turner 15th October 1759. Ann died 1777. I believe both are buried in the local church at Brewood.
The Book states that John was "the son of a Staffordshire lawyer". His parents are still unknown. There are a few pottery sites on the web with information on him and his two sons whom were born in Brewood Hall. Children that I have found are Elizabeth, Sarah, Unknown, William 1762 & John 1766.
I have had correspondence with the Fowke family regarding Brewood Hall and they apparently have no record of either EMERY or TURNER residing there. It is a Fowke crest displayed on the front of the building therefore to my mind they constructed this newer building to replace the old one around 1700.
Any assistance or leads would be gratefully received.
Rob