Samuel Turp

[post office Kate]

Can anyone help me with the maiden name of Samuel Turp (1811ish) of Essex's wife Amelia? Many thanks, POK

[lizdb]

Where in Essex? Is 1811 his birth or the year he married Amelia?

[Mum44]

Kate - hi

Do you have them on a census ?  About when might they have married ?

Where did Amelia come from ?


Lizb:  1811 

[lizdb]

Thanks Mum- have modified! Slip of the old finger there.

1851 has a 22 yr old Samuel Turp living in Halstead with mother Rebecca and sblings .... might be related somewhere along the line

[post office Kate]

Hi again, thanks for the replies. Samuel Turp was born in Pentlow in 1809 or 1811 and Amelia was born in Little Waltham in 1821 or thereabouts. I don't have much more information about this family. This is the family line of my great aunt by marriage Edith Ellen Turp who married George Smith which is something I have discovered on the 1911 census. After spending so much time researching the Smith line I though a name like Turp would be easy but it's not!! Any help would be very much appreciated. 

[lizdb]

Which census have you got them on? (assuming these years and places of birth are from a census)

[lizdb]

It must be 1881
I cannot find them on any previous censuses at all.

1881 is not that clear - is it really Turp?

Rg11 1765 90 20
Little Waltham
Samuel Turp? 70 Ag Lab bn Pentlow
Amelia 60 bn L Waltham

We really need to work back gradually and find them in earlier censuses, in order to establish when they might have married, if there were children etc.
Then we might get some pointers to help find her maiden name. (birth cert of child, marriage cert, etc)

[jorose]

1871
RG12/1664,  folio 97 page 19
Samuel Turp, 51, unmarried, b. Pentlow, in Little Waltham along with Ebenzer Turp (age hard to read) and Walter (ditto), both b. Pentlow. Lodgers with Samuel and Elizabeth Jones.

[post office Kate]

Bingo. That's my family!! Thanks very much.