Hello - I think we are cousins. Your Jim Turner is my first cousin 2x removed. My 2x great grandfather was Garrett Turner, born in Wexford Gorey 1839. He was a fisherman living in Riverchapel/Courtown. He and his wife had a total of 8 children, six of whom lived to adulthood. One of his children was Edward turner my great grandfather who is buried in Riverchapel. One of his children was John (1863-1922) married to Bridget Parle who seemed to have settled in Rosslare. In my research I have their children as Agnes, joseph, jim, john, and seems like maybe two daughters who died young? Please see my ancestry tree, it is open to view
I have kept my research mostly on my direct line. Garrett Turner is as far back as I have been able to reliably get on the Turner line, but I know through working with distant cousin (dna testing) Faye turner that she is close to piecing together some of the links prior to my 2x gg father Garrett.
Here is what I can tell you about the family - Garrett was a fisherman, lived in Riverchapel his whole life. My great grandfather Edward (your Jim Turner's uncle) was also a fisherman and in the merchant navy as a career. Lived and died in riverchapel. He is buried by the star of the sea church there. Great Grandfather Edward had five children, several of whom stayed in the area and his descendants are still there today. One of those children was my grandfather Jack who immigrated to America (philadelphia) in the mid 1920s but the story is a little fuzzy because he was in the merchant navy with his dad and when the ship arrive in Philadelphia he told his dad he was staying and that was it. He eventually married my grandmother (another irish imigrant). They raised their three children in Philadelphia. My older siblings were all born in Philly. I am the 5th of 6 children, but was born in Florida as my parents moved there in the 1960's.
I became interested in geneology several years ago, all connections had been lost to the Irish turners because my grandparents never really shared much information. I started doing research, long story short found the grave of my great grandfather online. Three years ago two of my sisters took a trip to ireland and went to the cemetery to pay respects. They noticed the graves were all well tended so they left a note. Ever since then we've been in touch and visiting my irish cousins. If my dad were alive Breda would be his first cousin. She was the neice of my grandfather. She lives in London but keeps the cottage in courtown she was raised in. Me, my sister and my teen sons visited her family there two summers ago and stayed with her. would not surprise me if she knows something about your relative. I got to see the site where Garrett's thatched roof home used to sit, the church where they all would have been baptised, married, buried. And we are still in touch.
Sorry if I'm going on and on. happy to help any other way I can.
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