Margaret S. Turner

This woman and family are a bit of a mystery. She and daughter Amelia are living amongst the Pollitts, Browns, Morrises in 1850 and 1860. In 1860, Peggy is listed as a nurse. Both Turnetr women are buried in the Brown Family cemetery on the Worcester side of Meadow Bridge Road.

Jim Brown made some sense to the Peggy Turner who had a close relatioship with the Brown Family (see below). It seems she never married and had at least one child out-of-wedlock (Amelia Turner) and probably a second (Elizabeth Dorman).

From: mdgenealogy@aol.com <mdgenealogy@aol.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 3:14 PM
To: mikehitch@mikehitch.com
Subject: Re: A ghost from the past!

Hi, Mike,

A cold blustery day here so a perfect chance to get your packet ready for mailing on Monday morning.

I am send a number of things, including the George Brown (ca. 1717-1788) material, a poor but readable copy of the marriage and death pages in Marcellus and Elizabeth Dorman Brown's original bible that lists (curiously) the death of Amelia E. Dorman on January 17, 1867.

(The 1850 Federal census for Worcester Co lists:
James Dorman, aged 53, miller
Mary Dorman, aged 36
Adeline Dorman, aged 5
Amelia E. Dorman, aged 2

The family bible record lists the death of Amelia E. Dorman (about age 15) so in some way she must have been related closely to Elizabeth Dorman. My exhaustive research has yielded nothing about her parentage thus far.

But my father, and even the original marriage record, lists the wife of Marcellus as Elizabeth Dorman and she was a sister of Amelia A. Turner. Amelia was the daughter of Margaret (Peggy) S. Turner and all are buried on the old home place. Elizabeth may have been illegitimate also, but she could have been a sister of Mary Dorman, above. (It is possible that Lewis and Laura Brown named one of their sons James Dorman Brown (my grandfather) after his grandfather, James Dorman.

I am also sending Amelia A. Turner's will, along with the Worcester Co., deed Liber AK p. 15 that lists her as an illegitimate daughter of Peggy Turner born 3 May 1819, bond paid by Samuel and William Parsons, and witnessed by Levin Hitch. And as you know her tombstone lists her birth date as 23 May 1819, not 3 May 1819.

All best wishes. I'll get the packet to the post office on Monday morning.

Jim Brown

Margaret married.