Person:Gladys Turner (1)

Gladys May Turner was born on 31st May 1898 in the coastal village of Bunmahon in County Waterford, Ireland. She was the daughter of Maude Turner, formerly May, and her husband Edward Thomas John Turner, a coast guard. Gladys' parents were both English and had married and had their first son in England; Gladys' birth is the family's first sighting in Ireland.

The 1901 census finds Gladys living with her parents and brother at Downeen, near Rosscarbery in County Cork, another coastal location with a coast guard station. They later moved again to Castletownbere, also in County Cork. By 1911 the family had left Ireland and returned to England, where the 1911 census finds them living at St Just in Penwith in Cornwall.

By 1919 Gladys was living in Plymouth. She was married there to a sailor named Leonard Thomas Northcott. They appear to have had one daughter in 1919, born in Plymouth. In 1926 Gladys and her daughter sailed from London to Gibraltar. Their address at this time was given as 23 Belair Road, Plymouth. Perhaps they were joining Leonard out there.^[5]

Gladys' father Edward died in 1928 in Plymouth. Gladys and Leonard later moved to Weymouth in Dorset, where they named their house Belair, presumably after the street they had lived in in Plymouth. Gladys' mother Maude died whilst staying with them in Weymouth in 1941, although her normal residence was given as an address in Plymouth.

Leonard died in Weymouth in 1973. Gladys survived him by nearly 11 years and died in 1984, aged about 86.

1. ↑ Births index, in General Register Office of Ireland. Civil Registration.

   b. Gladys May TURNER, June Quarter 1898, Kilmacthomas Registration District, Volume 4, page 554

2. ↑ Census Office. Ireland Census 1901. (National Archives of Ireland).

   Townland: Downeen, Parish: Ross, County Cork
   Form A (about the family)
   Edward Turner, head, Church of Ireland, Read & Write, 35 [1865/6], male, Boatman Coast-Guard R.N., married, b. Kent, England
   Maude Turner, wife, Church of Ireland, Read & Write, 33 [1867/8], female, married, b. England
   Edmund Turner, son, Church of Ireland, Read & Write, 9 [1891/2], male, scholar, b. England
   Gladys Turner, daughter, Church of Ireland, 2 [1898/9], female, b. Co. Waterford
   Form B (about the house)
   Walls of brick, stone or concrete
   Roof of slate, iron or tiles
   4 rooms occupied
   5 windows in front of house

3. ↑ England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.))
   Class RG14; Piece 14093; Schedule 78, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: Coast Guard Station, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall
   5 rooms occupied
   Edward Turner, head, male, 45 [1865/6], married, Petty Officer Coastguard - Royal Navy, worker, b. Woolwich, Kent
   Maude Turner, wife, female, 43 [1867/8], married 20 years, 6 children born alive, 4 children still living, b. Plymouth, Devon
   Gladys Turner, daughter, female, 12 [1898/9], School, b. Bonmahon, Waterford, Ireland
   Daisy Turner, daughter, female, 7 [1903/4], School, b. Castletownbere, Cork, Ireland
   Lilian Turner, daughter, female, 1 [1909/10], b. St Just in Penwith, Cornwall

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Gladys May NORTHCOTT, May 1984, Weymouth Registration District, Volume 23, page 1013, born 31 May 1898

5. ↑ UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 Ship: Mooltan Embarked: London Contracted to land at: Gibraltar Mrs. Gladys May Northcott, 23 Belair Rd, Plymouth, aged 27, country of intended future residence England