Charles Turner was born in 1828 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, and christened on 23 December 1828 in the parish church of his industrial town. Wolverhampton in the 1820s and 1830s was undergoing rapid transformation. The town sat at the heart of England’s Black Country, where…
Maria Bertha Palmer was born in 1831 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. The precise location of her birth and the details of her family origins remain sparse in the surviving records, but she was christened on 23 February 1831 at Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, suggesting that her…
Jane Turner was born on 28 December 1854 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, the daughter of Charles Turner and Maria Bertha Palmer. Wolverhampton in the 1850s was an industrial landscape of canals, railway yards, and ironworks. Charles Turner worked for the Great Western Railway, his employment…