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Leonard TURNER
1878 - 1957

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• Birth	26 Jun 1878	Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire   [1, 2]
  	His mother died when he was only 3.
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1891	Caversham, Oxfordshire   [3]
  	Address: 26 Queen's Road
  Military	24 Nov 1915	Bletchley, Buckinghamshire   [4, 5]
  	Address: Fenny Stratford Signal Depot Royal Engineers
  		Leonard's WWI enlistment The scanned image of his enlistment paperwork totals 29 pages and is available on ancestry.com Search under "Frederick Leonard Turner"
  Military	24 Apr 1916  [5]
  	as a "pioneer with effect"
  	Address: Haynes Park Signal Depot
  	His rank was driver. Prior to that date he had not served abroad.
  Military	20 Feb 1919
  	he was demobilized and returned to Blake House
  	The demobilization records indicate he served in India and South Africa and that he had no medical disability as a result of that service. His eyes were brown and he was 5'5" tall.
  Occupation	1920
  	groom in his younger years and then ran the Lowndes Arms pub
  		The picture that started it all Leonard Turner at the Lowndes Arms stable in Whaddon
  Cremated	1957	Whaddon, Buckinghamshire   [6]
  	Address: under a tree in a field he could see from his bedroom window
  		ingram china plumber shop.jpg Plumber's shop
  Died	20 Oct 1957	Northampton, Northamptonshire   [6]
  	Cause: of peritoneal carcinomatosis, with metastatic liver
  Person ID	I36	Turner Collins Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2011

  
  

  Father	Henry TURNER,   b. 1 Jun 1848, Reading St Giles, Berkshire ,   d. 7 Nov 1903, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire
  Mother	Louisa SMITH,   b. 26 Dec 1846, Lewknor, Oxfordshire ,   d. 20 Feb 1882, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire
  Married	17 Aug 1870	Caversham, Oxfordshire
  Census	1871	Reading, Berkshire
  	Address: Greyfriar's Road "Tudor Arms" St Lawrence
  Residence	1881	Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire
  	Albion House
  	Address: 35 West Street
  Family ID	F17	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Lorrie Esther BAKER,   b. 27 Jan 1887, North Marston, Buckinghamshire ,   d. 16 Nov 1969, Leicester, Leicestershire
  Married	6 Sep 1909	Hoggeston, Buckinghamshire   [7, 8]
  	Address: Holy Cross, the parish church
  	Witnesses were Lorrie's father Henry and her sister Elsie Baker. ( It's bears noting that Leonard's name on the marriage certificate is "Frederick Leonard." He took his brother's name after Frederick was killed fighting in the Boer War.) Leonard and Lorrie's first two children were born and baptized in Hoggeston
  		Turner Baker Marriage Certificate
  Residence	1911	Winslow, Buckinghamshire   [9, 10]
  	next door to Blake House
  	Address: Blake Cottage
  	That's where their first two children were born. Lorrie and the children continued to live at Blake House while Leonard served in WWII. Edward Lambert Gosling was a stock broker, single in 1911, with quite a large staff of servants and grooms. In 1911, Leonard's step brother Arthur John Turner was living with them. He was a soldier - Light Infantry Oxon & Bucks and fought in WWI
  		Detail of the Cottelsoe Hundred
  Residence	1920	Whaddon, Buckinghamshire
  	Address: The Lowndes Arms pub
  	The pub/inn also had a very nice stable. Whaddon is a village about 5 miles north of Winslow, where their third child was born in 1927.
  Residence	1950	Bletchley, Buckinghamshire   [6]
  	Address: 62 Whitley Crescent
  Children	1. Gladys Evelyn TURNER,   b. 10 Feb 1910, Winslow, Buckinghamshire ,   d. 20 Nov 2002, Coventry, Warwickshire   2. Edward George TURNER,   b. 27 Jun 1911, Winslow, Buckinghamshire ,   d. 25 Feb 2000, Northampton, Northamptonshire   3. Living
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		1926 Kennel Road, Whaddon
  		leonard.jpg
  		1926 Kennel Road, Whaddon
  		leonard.jpg

  
  

• Sources

  [S223] Vital Record, Certified Copy, England, Birth; 26 June 1878; Leonard Turner; Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; author. [S469] England Civil Registrations, birth certificate; Leonard Turner; 1878; Jul-Aug-Sep Wycombe, 3a/537/40. [S471] 1881 UK Census Ancestry.com, 8 November 2011; entry for Henry Turner, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire; citing PRO RG11/1158, folio 66, p. 32; district 1, household 176. [S209] 1841 UK Census, Reading, St Mary; Piece 36; Book: 3; Folio: 6; Page: 6; Line: 3; GSU roll: 241207; 3; Turner. [S258] WWI Service Records, England, February 2010; Record #142370, Royal Engineers; images 83157-83181. [S223] Vital Record, Certified Copy, England, Death; 20 October 1957; Leonard Turner; Northampton, Northamptonshire; author. [S218] Marriage Index, England & Wales 1837-1915, Frederick L Turner & Lorrie Baker; 1909; Jul-Aug-Sep; Winslow; 3a; 1975. [S223] Vital Record, Certified Copy, England, Marriage; 6 September 1909; Frederick Leonard Turner & Lorrie Baker; Winslow, Buckinghamshire; author. [S274] 1911 UK Census, Winslow; PN7968 RG78PN400 RD147 SD1 ; 16; Gosling; 156. [S274] 1911 UK Census, Winslow; PN7968 RG78PN400 RD147 SD1 ; 16; Turner; 155. Note that the surname is entered incorrectly in the the Findmypast.com database as "Gurner"