This is just a little update following my last blog post back in October before I went on a little hiatus and did some, what I call rabbit hole research!
As you may recall from my last post, I wrote about Henry Turle, 3rd son of Henry Turle and Jane Hobbs, and the question mark over this year of death. I had concluded at that time that on the balance of probability and with the available documents, I believed that Henry Turle had died in the United States of America on 2 August 1868 and updated the Turle family tree accordingly.
I was unable to find a birth entry for Henry on the General Register Office website although I did find an entry for his baptism [1]:
For his death being on 2 August 1868 in either Connecticut or New York in the United States of America, I now have a few sources that point to this being when Henry passed away. I do not have a record of death however as state records for Connecticut did not start until 1897 and in New York although they started in 1866, I have been unable to locate an entry for Henry. Instead, along with the probate entry [3] I previously found for Henry, I have now sourced two newspaper entries.
The first was during a search of the Chronicling America website which provides free access to information about historic American newspapers and select digitised newspaper pages. There was an entry about Henry's death on page 7 of the New York Herald on 5 August 1868 [4] as follows:
TURLE -- Suddenly, at Stamford, Conn., on Sunday, August 2nd, HENRY TURLE of Taunton, Somersetshire, England, aged 20 years.
I followed this up with search on the British Newspaper Archive, a paid subscription website to see if I could find an entry in a Taunton, Somerset, England newspaper, which I did in the Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser on Wednesday 12 August 1868 [5] which stated the following:
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[2] Ancestry.com. Menands, New York, Albany Rural Cemetery Burial Cards, 1791-2011 - Turle, Henry
[3] https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills - 1868 - Turle, Henry
[4] The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 05 Aug. 1868. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030313/1868-08-05/ed-1/seq-7/>
[5] Britishnewspaperarchvie.co.uk, Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser, Wednesday 12 August 1868 - Image (c) The British Library Board - All Rights Reserved.
Have enjoyed following the Thurle family - so far!
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