The Turner Family

The meaning of the Surname Turner

English and Scottish: occupational name for a maker of objects of wood, metal, or bone by turning on a lathe, from Anglo-Norman French torner (Old French tornier, Latin tornarius, a derivative of tornus ‘lathe’). The surname may also derive from any of various other senses of Middle English turn, for example a turnspit, a translator or interpreter, or a tumbler.

English: nickname for a fast runner, from Middle English turnen ‘to turn’ + ‘hare’.

English: occupational name for an official in charge of a tournament, Old French tornei (in origin akin to 1).

Ferdinand Turner my GreatGreatGrandad born 1853 at Barlow in Derbyshire, he married Ann Elizabeth Ward March 1876. Below are his daughters Selina Agnes far left my Great Grandma, she married Charles Robert Wass.