William Turner and Frances	see Photos	see Data	see Family Tree	(generation 19)
(Revised Nov 2011: Text updated and source data added)

Frances was baptised on the 25th May 1800 in Jacobstow, Cornwall, the daughter of William Trease and Martha Uglow and granddaughter of John Trease and Ann Smeeth.

For the first twenty years of her life her father worked for the Excise Service at various places in the West Country and she is thought to have travelled around with him. When her father retired in 1820 the family settled in Tresmeer and it was in Tresmeer Church on the 9th April 1828 that Frances married William Turner, a local schoolmaster. The witnesses were Thomas Trease, her brother, and Uriah Matthew, who also acted as witness at her brother Thomas's wedding in the same church three years later and who may be related in some way to the Ann Matthew who married Peter Trease in Jacobstow in 1771.

William Turner is thought to be the base son of Jane Gimblet who was baptised in Treneglos on the 10th July 1791. His father, whose identity is currently unkown, or some other person must have ensured that William was well cared for and educated to a level that enabled him to become a schoolmaster. Interestingly, a Rebecca Gimblett married a John Turner in Treneglos in April 1790 and her sister Jane Gimblett (possibly mother of William Turner) married Lewis Braund at Treneglos in 1794. So far nothing more has been found about William's ancestry.

It appears that William taught at the school in Egloskerry and that some time around 1851 he gave up teaching to run a small farm of 10 acres at Helson in Tresmeer. Around the same time, Frances's brother, Thomas Trease, became a schoolmaster at Egloskerry and may have taken over from William. William subsequently retired to a house at Napney Lake, Warbstow where he died on the 22nd December 1857 aged 65. His funeral was held at Tresmeer churchyard five days later. The location Knapinelake cannot be found in modern maps but appears near the centre of this 1888 map of Warbstow. About then, Frances's sister Ann Trease came to live with Frances. Her sister Ann had been looking after their parents, William and Martha, at their house in North Tregeare, until their father William Trease died in 1856. It is thought probable that Ann stayed on at North Tregeare, while her brother Daniel sorted out affairs, and that following William Turner's death she came over to Warbstow to live with her recently widowed sister and her two daughters.

Frances died in Warbstow on 17th March 1867 aged 66 and four days later she was buried in Tresmeer Churchyard to join her late husband.

Frances and William had three daughters : -

• daughter Martha Trease was born on the 31st March 1829 and her christening appears in the records of the Wesleyan Chapel in Castle Street Launceston on the 17th May 1829. It seems more likely that she was christened at home rather than taken into Launceston. Frances's sister Martha was active in the Wesleyan Methodist Movement and the baptism may have been influenced by her sister who shared the same christian name and may have been a godparent. When daughter Martha was 18, she was studying at the National School of North Petherwin, which had been established about 3 years earlier by the vicar, John Kingdon. It appears to have been a type of boarding school partly funded by subscription but no more has been found out about it so far. Sadly Martha died there on the 6th January 1848 and was buried at Tresmeer church four days later. The funeral must have been a very moving occasion and a poignant poem appears on her gravestone to commemorate her short life here and celebrate her after life.
  
  
• daughter Jane was christened in Egloskerry Church on the 21st April 1831. She lived with her parents for most, if not all, of their lives and worked as a School Mistress from about the time that her father retired, presumably to supplement the family income. After her mother died at Napney Lake, Warbstow, in 1867 she became head of the family and continued living there with her younger sister, Fanny Trease, and her Aunt Ann. Sometime between 1871 and 1881 the three of them moved to live at Lane End Cottage, Warbstow and her Aunt Ann who had relied on an income from an annuity took on work as a seamstress. Aunt Anne died in August 1884 and Jane and Fanny probably arranged her funeral service which was held on the 16th August 1884 at Tresmeer Church, where her mother and father and other children are buried. Strangely, no marked grave has been found there.
  In February of the year prior to Ann's death, John Holman, husband of Jane's cousin Caroline Chapman Holman nee Trease, died and the widowed Caroline subsequently came to live with Jane and Fanny. Like them, Caroline had also worked as a schoolmistress. After Caroline died in 1898, Jane and her sister Fanny continued living together. By 1901 they had both retired and had possibly moved to a smaller cottage at Tregune in Warbstow. They appear to have continued their life long companionship until April 8th 1911 when Jane died at Threehammers in Tresmeer aged 80. She is buried in a joint grave with her sister Fanny Trease alongside the graves of her parents and sister Martha Trease in Tresmeer Churchyard.
  
  
• daughter Fanny Trease was christened on the 18th January 1835 in Egloskerry. She also lived with her parents until their deaths and , like her sister, became a School Mistress. She continued living with her older sister, Jane, until Jane died in April 1911. Fanny herself died later the same year on November 26th at the age of 76 and was buried with her sister. Probate of her Will which covered effects worth £461 5s 0d was granted at Bodmin on the 11th January 1912 to Amos Fry a retired schoolmaster, who presumably had been a work colleague of hers.

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SOURCE DATA - Family of William Turner and Frances

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Abbreviations used are listed on the Standards and Abbreviations page.

Family members :-

• Frances Trease
• Husband - William Turner
• Daughter - Martha Trease Turner
• Daughter - Jane Turner
• Daughter - Frances Turner

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Source data for Frances Trease

Frances TREASE
1800	c. 25May1800 Jacobstow. Frances TREAS daur of William and Martha TREAS (IGI C023102)
1828	William Turner of this parish and Frances Trease of this parish married by banns on 9th April 1828.
	Witnesses - Uriah Mathew and Thomas Traise (ER)
	1841 Census Tresmeer Church Town ( b14 f4 p11) Uriah Mathew 65 farmer Catherine Mathew 50 William Mathew 25 Catharine Matthew 20 Thomas Mathew 15 Uriah mathew 13 1851 Census Churchtown ( f143 p4) Uriah Mathew Head 73 farmer 120 acres 1 Lab b. Tresmeer Catherine Mathew Wife 59 b. Tresmeer Thomas Mathew Son Unm 28 b. Tresmeer Uriah mathew Son Unm 28 b. Tresmeer Catherine Ebbott Dau Mar 33 b. Tresmeer Caroline Ebbott Grddau 5 b. West Leonia America Overseas brit Subj., Mary Luxton Servant 43 b. St Just 1861 census (RG9/1518 f54 p11) Uriah Matthew Head 83 Retired Farmer Catherine Matthew Wife 69 b. Tresmeer
1841	Census. Egloskerry. (HO107/134/1 d4 f14 p22)
	William Turner 45 Schoolmaster Frances 35 Martha 12 Jane 10 Fanny 6
1851	Census. Helson, Tresmeer. (HO107/1899 d3 f141 p1 s1)
	William Turner Head Mar 59 Farmer of 10 acres b. Treneglos Frances do Wife Mar 50 b. Jacobstow Jane do Daur Unmar 19 b. Egloskerry Fanny do Daur Unmar 16 b. Egloskerry
1861	Census. Napney Lake, Warbstow. (RG9/1518 d8 f61 p6 s35)
	Frances Turner Head Widow 60 Schoolmaster's widow b.Jacobstow Jane Turner Daughter Unm 29 School Mistress b. Egloskerry Fanny Turner Daughter Unm 26 School Mistress b. Egloskerry Ann Trease Lodger Unm 52 Fund Holder b. Mannaccan
1867	i. 21Mar1867 Tresmeer. Frances Turner age 66 of Warbstow (COD)
1867	Sacred to the memory of
	William Turner of this parish who died Dec. 22nd 1857 age 65 years also Frances wife of the above died March 17th 1867 age 66 years "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord." Rev. XIV. 13.

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Source data for her Husband William Turner

Husband William Turner
	? c. 10Jul1791 Treneglos. William Turner base child of Jane Gimblet (ER)
	NOTE1: William states in the 1851 census that he is 59 and born in Treneglos. That fits the above baptism. As a schoolmaster, he must have been numerate and unlikely to calculate his age incorrectly if he knew for sure his date of birth. Although the age given on his death was 65 instead of 66 (which would have fitted the 1851 census data) it is thought that Frances may have simply miscalculated it. The only other appropriate William Turner is the one c. 14Apr1798 Treneglos son of John Turner and Rebecca (nee Gimblett) but by his own calculation our William would have been almost 7 by then and it is reasoned that at that age he was sufficiently old to remember well dated events in the Napoleonic Wars to make it unlikely that he could have got his age wrong by so mny years.
	NOTE2: Rebecca Gimblett c. 16Oct1768 Treneglos daur of Robert Gimblett and Mary Sandercock Jane Gimblett c Nov 1765 Treneglos same parents as above m. 11June1794 Treneglos. Jane Gimblett and Lewis Braund of Clawton
1857	i. 27Dec1857 Tresmeer. William Turner age 65 of Knapinelake, Warbstow. (COD)

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Source data for her Daughter Martha Trease Turner

Daughter Martha Trease Turner
1829	b. 31Mar1829 )
	c. 17May1829 ) Mary Magdalene - Wesleyan, Launceston. Martha Trease Turner daur of William and Frances (IGI C065191)
1848	i. 10Jan1848 Tresmeer. Martha Turner age 18 of the National School, North Petherwin (COD)
	07Dec1844 Early 19th century copy of a deed seting up a National School in North Petherwin by the vicar, John Kingdon with the consent of the Duke of Bedford (NAI X 1090/6)
1848	Sacred to the memory of
	Martha Trease Turner beloved daughter of William and Frances Turner of this parish who died at North Petherwin Jan. 6th 1848 age 18 years 'Tis done, the scene is closed, the conflict o'er, The curtain drops, and Martha is no more, Wearied betimes of this our dark abode, She burst her chains, and spurn'd her mortal clod, Plumed her light wings and rose and tower'd away, To realms of purer joy, and brighter day.

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Source data for her Daughter Jane Turner

Daughter Jane Turner
1831	c. 21Apr1831 Egloskerry. Jane Turner daur of William and Frances, schoolmaster (ER)
1871	Census Napne(?) Lake, Warbstow (RG10/2223 f81 p14 sch45)
	Jane Turner Head Unm 40 Schoolmistress b. Egloskerry Fanny Turner Sister Unm 36 Schoolmistress b. Egloskerry Ann Trease Aunt Unm 61 Annuitant b. Manaccon [sic]
1881	Census. Lane End Cottage, Warbstow
	Jane Turner Head Unm 50 Schoolmistress b. Egloskerry Fanny Turner Sister Unm 46 Schoolmistress b. Egloskerry Ann Trease Aunt Unm 70 Seamstress b. Mannaccan
1891	Census.Lane End, Warbstow
	Jane Turner Head Unm 60 Schoolmistress b. Egloskerry Fanny Trease do Sister Unm 56 Schoolmistress b. Egloskerry Caroline Holman Boarder Wid 56 Living on her own means b. Glos., Cheltenham
1901	Census. Cottage, Warbstow. Previous entry "Tregune", next entry "Tregune Mill" (RG13/2180 f53 p6 s32)
	Jane Trease Head Unm 70 Retired schoolmistress b. Egloskerry Fanny Trease Sister Unm 66 Retired schoolmistress b. Egloskerry
1911	Loving memory of
	Jane Turner who died at Threehammers Tresmeer April 8th 1911 Aged 80 years. - Also Fanny Trease Turner who departed this life Nov. 26th 1911 Aged 76 years. - "Prepare to meet thy God." The 'foot' of their grave is also marked by two smaller stones alongside one another.

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Source data for her daughter Frances Turner

Daughter Frances Trease Turner
1835	c. 18Jan1835 Egloskerry. Fanny Trease Turner daur of William and Frances, schoolmaster of Churchtown (ER)
1912	Probate of Fanny Trease Turner died 26November 1911 added but will not inspected yet
	?Amos Fry married Elizabeth Brown Trewin b. Marahamchurch dau of Henry Trewin and Ann Lyle(per Internet Site)
1841	Census. Three Hammers. (HO107/134/14 d5 f3 p8) Edward Westlake 30 Ag lab Ann Westlake 60 Independent Harrot Westlake 20 Dressmaker
1851	Census. Three Hammers. (HO107/1879 d3 f144 p7 s27)
	Edward Weslake Head Unm 36 Ag Lab b. Tresmeer Ann Venning Mother Wid 69 H'keeper b. Tresmeer Amos Fry Nephew 9 b. Tresmeer
1861	Census. Comb Mill. BroadwoodWidger. (RG9/1519 d5b f38 p3 s14)
	John Fry Head 31 Miller b. Holsworthy Harriet Fry Wife 43 b. Tresmeer Amos Fry Son 18 b. Tresmeer Eliza Fry Dau 16 b. Tresmeer Willm Fry Son 12 Scholar b. Poundstock Harriet Fry Dau 9 Scholar b. Tremaine Philip Fry Son 7 Scholar b. Tremaine Arthur John Fry Son 4 Scholar b. Tremaine Mary Ann Dau 2m b. Broadwoodwidger Hannah Dau 2m b. Broadwoodwidger Richard Watts Serv. 56 Carter b. Rattery, Devon
1871	Census. Not yet found
1881	Census Amos and family as for 1891 (but wife not schoolmistress) living in Week St mary Village (RG11/2271 f67 p1 s7)
1891	Census Brayacott School North Petherwin (RG12/1802 d29 f12 p1 s3)
	Amos Fry head 48 Schoolmaster b. Tresmeer Elizabeth B Fry Wife Schoolmistress 44 b. Marhamchurch Edith Fry Dua 16 Scholar b. Launcells NOTE: Edith d. Dec1928 Launceston?
NOTE	Amos Fry inherited all that was left from this family. As such, family mementos photos etc would have ended up with him.
	He does not appear to be a blood relative so all may have been thrown away but a few items, such as photos, may have survived.

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CHANGE HISTORY

Date	Section	Change
26Oct2011	All	Narrative updated, sources added, photos of graves added
28Oct2011	Jane Turner	1901 census
28Oct2011	Fanny Trease Turner	Probate date of Will but no transcript

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