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  India Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ellen Turner was a daughter and only child of William Turner, rich mill owner who lived in Shrigley, in Cheshire, England, and who owned calico printing and spinning mills.
Ellen finally consented and Wakefields took her over the border of Scotland to Gretna Green, which had become a favorite place of elopement for those who wanted to exploit less strict marriage laws of Scotland.
Ellen Turner was married for real at the age of 17 to Thomas Legh, a wealthy neighbor.
www.indiaencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Shrigley_Abduction   (951 words)

  
 The Gateway -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turner was the staff member chosen and Joong-Gun Chung, a professor in the Department of Political Science and James Saker, professor and chair of the Department of Music, were the two faculty members selected for 2003.
Though Turner was a member of the election committee for the awards, the group managed to keep her nomination a secret during the selection process.
Turner said she has no plans to leave International Studies and Programs any time soon, and it is the constant variation and new people she meets in her job that keeps her in it.
www.unogateway.com /vnews/display.v?TARGET=printable&article_id=3fbcf30908b44   (821 words)

  
 Matilda Ellen Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ellen, as she preferred to be called, lived during a unique time, not only in American history, but also in World history.
Matilda Ellen Turner was born December 6, 1876 in the small town of Springtown, in Benton County, Arkansas.
Ellen, after becoming a grandmother, came to be known to everyone in town as "Granny Gates." She was a portly figure, standing only five feet tall, with very tiny feet (she wore a size four shoe).
www.kcnet.com /~denis/related/bios/turner.htm   (932 words)

  
 WAKEFIELD, G. - LoveToKnow Article on WAKEFIELD, G.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He resigned this post in 1820, upon the death of his wife, to whom he was fondly attached, and, though making some efforts to connect himself with journalism, spent the years immediately succeeding in idleness, residing for the most part in Paris.
In 1826 he appeared before the public as the hero of a most extraordinary adventure, the abduction of Miss Ellen Turner, daughter of William Turner, of Shrigley Park, Cheshire.
Miss Turner was decoyed from school by means of a forged letter, and made to believe that she could only save her father from ruin by marrying Wakefield, whom she accordingly accompanied to Gretna Green.
19.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WAKEFIELD_G_.htm   (2044 words)

  
 Stranger than fiction
Ellen Turner was an only child, her father William having done so well in calico-printing in Blackburn that he bought Shrigley Hall, near Macclesfield, demolished the old Elizabethan house and built a new family home (now a hotel) on the estate.
Ellen was sent to a ladies' seminary in Liverpool, to tutor her in the social niceties which would ensure she made a good marriage.
Ellen's marriage to Wakefield was annulled by Act of Parliament and she soon exchanged one grand Cheshire home for another by marrying Thomas Legh, to become mistress of Lyme Hall, Disley, aged just 17.
www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/arts/literature/s/82/82127_stranger_than_fiction.html   (1365 words)

  
 Times Record News: Local News
Sue Ellen Turner, who spent three years in the mid-'70s in the School of Health Care Sciences at the base, toured the installation as a member of the Base Realignment and Closure commission.
Turner said she was also able to get some new insights into information relayed to her by BRAC staff members who toured the base earlier.
Turner said she used her visit to look into data regarding moving missions from Sheppard and the costs of making those moves.
www.timesrecordnews.com /trn/local_news/article/0,1891,TRN_5784_3970624,00.html   (925 words)

  
 This is Lancashire | Looking Back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She was Ellen Turner, daughter of William Turner, a rich Blackburn mill owner who was the town's biggest employer and who - six years after the scandal - became one of the two men elected in 1832 as the town's first MPs.
Turner - whose family on his uncle William's side had founded the water-powered mill at Helmshore that today is the Higher Mill textile museum - had spinning and calico printing mills at Mill Hill and Ewood.
In celebration, Turner's employees in Blackburn were given a half day's holiday and for those at the Ewood Mill a whole sheep was roasted while another was boiled in a large copper at the works.
www.thisislancashire.co.uk /lancashire/news/looking_back/190603.html   (646 words)

  
 mcadams - mca17.htm
John Lee Turner (James Bradley Turner, Nancy McAdams, Isaac, James T) was born 29 Dec 1868 in Calhoun Co., MS.
Hiram Daniel Turner was born 6 Mar 1913 and died 23 Mar 1981.
Ellen E. Turner (James Bradley Turner, Nancy McAdams, Isaac, James T) was born 29 Sep 1872.
oldpend2.homestead.com /files/mcadams/mcag17.htm   (485 words)

  
 Atherton families - athg02 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Sarah married George Turner on Dec 1870 in All Saints, Wigan.
Ellen Jane Tucker [Parents] was born 28 Dec 1846 in Anthony, St Germans, Cornwall.
Ellen married Robert Jameson Sime on 29 Dec 1864 in St Mary's Episcopal, Port Glasgow.
website.lineone.net /~sufloyd/athg02.htm   (353 words)

  
 turner - tur22.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nellie Louise Ramsey (Ora Belle Hutchins, Tumilla Jane Freeman, Macie Caroline Turner, Felix, Joseph, William Griffin) was born 26 Sep 1920 in Greenville, SC.
Jane Freeman (Ivy Hutchins Freeman, William Thomas Freeman, Macie Caroline Turner, Felix, Joseph, William Griffin) was born in Pickens Co., SC.
Robert L Freeman (Ivy Hutchins Freeman, William Thomas Freeman, Macie Caroline Turner, Felix, Joseph, William Griffin) was born in Pickens Co., SC.
www.homestead.com /oldpend2/files/turner/turg22.htm   (439 words)

  
 Dudley page
Ellen Turner's floating vocal drawl suggests she is singing an intimate disclosure to the listener.
It began as a solo project by singer-songwriter Ellen Turner, and the group—guitarist Joe Woodard, drummer Tom Lackner, and bassist Chris Symer--formed around the recording project.
Turner's velvety, enveloping voice is reminiscent of Frente!'s Angie Hart in its sweeping sighs.
www.householdink.com /dudley.htm   (465 words)

  
 Descendants of James Hynes
He married Cecelia Turner, married 2 Dec 1893 in St Brendan's, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, (daughter of Thomas Turner and Ellen Fennell) d.
Ellen died 5 Jul 1901 in St Brendan's, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland.
Ellen died 30 Oct 1996 in Gander, Newfoundland.
hynes_st_brendans.tripod.com /descendants.html   (3709 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1827
March 7 – Ellen Turner is abducted – The Shrigley Abduction case begins
March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years).
Ellen Gould White (nee Harmon) (November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was co-founder of Seventh-day Adventism.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1827   (2905 words)

  
 Edward Wakefield
Mrs Daulby was initially suspicious of the fact that she did not recognize Thevenot but eventually let Ellen go.Thevenot and Ellen Turner left for Manchester where Thenevot took her to Hotel Albion where she met Wakefield.
Ellen?s parents received a letter from Wakefield who informed them that he had married their daughter.Wakefield had apparently expected that William Turner would have accepted their marriage rather than face a public scandal.
Wakefield, in attempt to not to make his situation worse, put in writing that she was still a virgin and left for Paris.British police issued warrants for Wakefields arrest and William Wakefield was arrested in Dover couple of day later.
www.didgeridooman.com /264863_edward-wahl_140106017x21storiestop100books.html   (852 words)

  
 Sixth Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alfred Smith TURNER and Mary Angeline BUNCE were married in 1885.
TURNER was born in January 1888 in Colorado.
Anne Lucy TURNER was born in March 1900 in Colorado.
homepages.rootsweb.com /~nvjack/beede/data/b15703.htm   (80 words)

  
 The Male Animal (1942 b 101')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At Midwestern University Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda) brings home flowers and liquor and tells his wife Ellen Turner (Olivia de Havilland) he will be made a full professor.
Ellen comes down ready for the game; Tommy gives her a thermos, but she breaks it.
Ellen says that Tommy is wonderful, and in the final scene everyone cheers Tommy and Ellen as they kiss.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1942/MaleAnimal.html   (458 words)

  
 Rebecca Ellen Turner Clark
(Rebecca Ellen) Clark, age 86, of Groves, formerly of Cego, died at 2:45 p.m.
Clark was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Eddy where she had served as Sunday School secretary and in the church choir for many years.
     She is survived by her husband of Groves and Cego; two sons, Curtis L. Clark of Houston and Turner Reginald Clark of  Clarksville, Arkansas; a daughter, Mrs.
www.rootsweb.com /~txfalls/obitCLARKrebeccaellenturner03311976.htm   (180 words)

  
 US Air Force Military Biographies: Brigadier General Sue Ellen Turner
Brigadier General Sue Ellen Turner is director, nursing services, Office of the Air Force Surgeon General, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. General Turner was born in Chicago, where she graduated from Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing in 1963.
She earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Incarnate Word College in 1973, 28 hours toward a master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Oklahoma, and a master of science degree in nursing administration and adult health from the University of Alabama in 1981.
General Turner departed Sheppard Air Force Base in 1979 and entered graduate study at the University of Alabama.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RBE/is_2004_Annual/ai_n8572399   (622 words)

  
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Turner (Smith) living in Gadsden, Etowah Co., AL in 1939) 2 Bessie Turner Sultzer (m.
I am a decendant of Ellen Burnett (my Great Grandmother,) She was the daughter of Samuel Burnett,and Samuel 's father was the son of Jeremiah Burnett Jr.
Judith Turner was the daughter of Francis Turner and Nancy Thomas of Patrick co.,VA. Sarah Hatcher married Ira Short in Franklin County abt.
www-personal.umich.edu /~cgaunt/etc/comp114.txt   (1970 words)

  
 THE TURNER FAMILY
I spent an enormous amount of time figuring out where ROBERT B TURNER came from in Pennsylvania, and it was only when I discovered that he had been a member of the Indiana legislature and later a judge did Mifflin show up.
I found the document that proved James Turner to be the Son of John Turner of Cumberland County in the will books of the Cumberland County Court House.
From the files of Margaret Wharff Martin, 816 Hamilton St., Norristown, PA Sarah Turner was born November 20, 1793 (Tombstone Dates) in Mifflin, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
www.angelfire.com /nf/burnscharles/turner.html   (2383 words)

  
 Turner Dolls Message Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I read Ellen's post about buying and selling Turner Dolls.
I think it would be great to be able to do this with my Turner dolls too.
It gives collectors a chance to add to their collections without really increasing the size of the collection.
www.turnerdolls.com /forums/main/messages/10928.shtml   (131 words)

  
 The Lansing Current: Ellen M. Turner
Fort Thomas, Ky. — Services for Ellen M. Turner, 90, of Fort Thomas, Ky., were Monday at Highland Avenue Baptist Tabernacle, Fort Thomas with burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate, Ky.
Turner died Friday, Dec. 17, 2004, at St. Luke Hospital East, Fort Thomas.
Send us their photo and information for our online gallery honoring the men and women in the armed forces.
www.lansingcurrent.com /news/2004/dec/23/ellen_m_turner   (200 words)

  
 Ancestors of Emily C. JACKSON
John and Elijah Jackson are probable brothers of Emily Jackson Duke Turner.
Emily next married George Washington TURNER between 28 Feb and 4 Mar 1879 in Collin County, Texas.
Turner, G. Duke, Emily 28 Feb 1879 4 Mar 1879 Marshall, Stephen p.
womackfiles.com /WomackSmith/1736.html   (376 words)

  
 Ectophiles' Guide - Dudley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There' something very early Jane Siberry-like about Ellen Turner's style
Ellen Turner's voice is a dead ringer for Jane Siberry, and many of the songs remind me strongly of Siberry's early quirky folky work.
The songs are mostly low-key, focusing on Turner's appealing vocal performance and lyrics.
ectoguide.org /alpha/d/dudley&p=2   (257 words)

  
 Ellen TURNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ellen TURNER Daur Female 13 Holmfirth, York, England Scholar
Ellen Turner do, Sister in Law, Single, 25, Living on her Means, York Wooldale
Ellen married John BERRY, son of Joe BERRY and Sarah, circa Dec 1895 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
www.jearnshaw.me.uk /jack/468.htm   (261 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | November 21, 2003 - University of Nebraska: Morocco RPCV Merry Ellen Turner recognized for efforts ...
November 21, 2003 - University of Nebraska: Morocco RPCV Merry Ellen Turner recognized for efforts as Dean of International Programs at University of Nebraska
Morocco RPCV Merry Ellen Turner recognized for efforts as Dean of International Programs at University of Nebraska
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 Auckland University Press:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He follows not only the brothers' careers but also establishes the role of the Wakefield women and gives extensive accounts of Edward Gibbon Wakefield's first elopement and his later abduction of Ellen Turner.
Temple follows Edward Gibbon's tortuous career through colonial politics from the 1830s to the 1850s and shows how his brothers and son strongly influenced, for good and bad, the founding of new nations.
Part One covers the early years, in which all of Edward Gibbon's generation reached maturity, and ends with the catastrophic fracture of the family caused by Edward Gibbon's and William's imprisonment following their abduction of Ellen Turner.
www2.auckland.ac.nz /aup/books/temple-wakefields.html   (2458 words)

  
 Elizabeth Ellen Turner
Elizabeth Turner married James B. Harrington in Athens Co, OH.
Elizabeth dropped about 5 years off her life between census years of 1870 and 1880.
Elizabeth Ellen Harrington, of Van Buren County IA, received land grant in Chequest Twp on 1 Jan 1847 as sold on 22 Aug 1846.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~humefamily/27649.htm   (145 words)

  
 NINTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
EMAIL US Fred Allen Turner was born on 30 Mar 1850 in South Dover, Maine.
She was born in New York City, New York.
William Francis Turner was born on 17 Jun 1878 in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~abenaki/Day/d3384.htm   (60 words)

  
 RootsWeb: ALGENEVA-L [ALGENEVA] OBIT: ELLEN BOWDOIN TURNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Geneva with the Rev. Olen Strickland and the Rev. Dennis Singletary
Ellen Turner was born Sept. 29, 1937, in Alabama, to the late Jasper
Worley of Ringling, Okla.; son Sam Turner of Geneva; six grandsons; Micky
newsarch.rootsweb.com /th/read/ALGENEVA/2003-06/1054962541   (120 words)

  
 Turner Big Joe
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