Frederick James Turner

1860 - 1915  (~ 55 years)

• Name	Frederick James Turner
  Born	Apr 1860	Fredericton, New Brunswick   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Nov 1915	Lakeview Cemetery, Two Harbours, Lake County
  Died	2 Nov 1915	Two Harbours, Lake County, Minnesota   [2]
  Notes	James Frederick (1860-c1917) Fred is reported in Marjory Waters' book to have fatally injured a man in a fight, and fled to Winnipeg where he joined the North West Mounted Police and fought in the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. A search of RCMP records has not surfaced any record of Fred's service. Perhaps he may have been a teamster in support of army troops. But he definitely was in the west in 1885. It was in Port Arthur, Ontario that year that he married Margaret Conrad Jones, a widow. At the time, he was a locomotive engineer, probably with the CPR. In December 1888, at the birth of his second son, John, Fred was living in Chippewa County, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, where he was an engineer. He was likely employed by the CPR which had reorganized the Minnesota, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad ("The Soo Line"} that year. In John's birth record, wife Maggie's birthplace is listed as Paris, Kentucky. The 1900 census for Rockland Township in northwest Michigan, about 150 km south of Thunder Bay, includes an entry for Fred, his wife Maggie, and children 15 year old Frank and 11 year old John. The record shows Frank being born in New York. Rockland was a copper mining hotbed at the time, and Fred operated a lodging facility with 20 boarders. Fred was listed as "Landlord". In the 1905 census for Beaver Bay, Lake County, Minnesota, a small community on Lake Superior northeast of Duluth, Fred J. Turner and wife Maggie and 16 year old son John are listed. Fred was a mechanical labourer and John a fireman. Fred may have returned to Canada at Fort William, Ontario on July 24, 1911 from Superior, Wisconsin to work for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which was completing its line across Western Canada. Waters' has a possible death for Fred in 1934 in Fort William. No record of this has been found. A LDS record of his death on Nov 2 1915 in Two Harbors, Lake County was located in 2020. He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Section C Block, X Lot: 60 Space: 5; Memorial ID 224526858
  Person ID	I1491	Cullen family tree
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	John Turner,   b. 31 Jul 1824, Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick ,   d. 31 Oct 1911, Winnipeg, Manitoba  (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Agnes Nicholson,   b. 09 Jun 1825, Dumfries, Scotland ,   d. 28 Sep 1894, Rivière-du-Loup Station, Quebec  (Age 69 years)
  Married	31 Dec 1847	St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Fredricton York County, New Brunswick   [3]
  Family ID	F523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Conrad,   b. 22 Aug 1864, Paris, Kentucky ,   d. 27 Jul 1941, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky  (Age 76 years)
  Married	05 Nov 1885	Port Arthur, Ontario   [4]
  Children	1. Frank C Turner,   b. 22 Jan 1884, New York, New York ,   d. 27 Mar 1973, Santa Clara, California  (Age 89 years)  [natural]   2. John James Turner,   b. 17 Dec 1888, Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa County, Michigan ,   d. 28 Feb 1936, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky  (Age 47 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F1135	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Turner, Frederick 1905 Census Minnesota Census of Minnesota 1905, Lake County, Beaver Bay, Sheet 2, Lines 7-9. Fred Turner, wife Maggie and John son are listed. Fred's occupation was mechanical labourer and John was a fireman.
  		Turner, Frederick, 1900 census for Michigan 1900 census for Michigan, Ontonagon County, Rockland, page 59, Lines 17-42. Fred was the landlord of a large building which housed 20 boarders.
  		Turner, Frederick Ontario Marriages 1869-1927, 1985, Thunder Bay District, Port Arthur Record of marriage of Frederick Turner and Margaret Jones in Port Arthur on November 5, 1885

  
  

  Histories		Turner, John (1824-1911) and Agnes Nicholson (1825-1894) John Turner, our great-great grandfather, was a colourful horseman and stage operator for more than 50 years in New Brunswick and the Temiscouata region of Quebec. Excerpt from A Melding of Cultures, Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis Volume 1 Our Turners: Canadian Transportation Pioneers, Mark Cullen, Vancouver, 2013, pp 23-36, 179-195 and 265-267
  		Turner residences in Ottawa 1890-1899 From Ottawa directories for 1890-1899, residence addresses for Frank Turner and his brother George and sister Myra. Myra was a nurse, George H. was with the messenger service in the House of Commons and Frank was a railway engineer with Canada Atlantic Railway. Their brother, Fred may also have been a resident 1898-1899.

  
  

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  Turner, John and Agnes Nicholson family (17)

  
  

• Sources

  [S194] LDS Film No. 2321095. [LDS] . LDS Record 178000; certificate No. 006434; File name 006434; Affiliate batch NF068DO; Minnesota Death Index 1908-2002. Record shows birth date April 1860 in Fredericktown N.B. Canada [S2] Marjory McGillivray Waters OLA, Page 126. [S41] Ancestry.ca, Ontario Vital Statistics Project, Ontario Marriage Registrations,1800-1927, Northern District 85, #1205-85.