Alice Turner 1864-

I have spent a great deal of time trying to establish a maiden name for Mary Ann TURNER abt1860. I have a copy of the marriage certificate recording her marriage to Joseph BELLAMY b1857 but Sheffield Register Office could not retrieve a birth certificate. I find this rather puzzling since FreeBMD records a birth during 1860, at Sheffield, of a Mary Anne TURNER. So in order to proceed further I have turned my attention to Mary Ann's siblings.

Originally I had planned to try and retrieve a birth certificate for Edwin TURNER abt1859 but further research has produced a christening record for Alice TURNER abt1864. If my findings are correct she was baptised on the 10th of September, 1864 at St Philip's Church, Shalesmoor, Sheffield.

I have posted a request for a Birth Certificate to Sheffield Register Office and hopefully this time I will get a result.

Notes: This is definitely the correct area of Sheffield since as a young child in the 1950's I remember my visits to the St Philips road area of Sheffield and in particular to my uncle Edwin BELLAMY and aunt Peggy BELLAMY (née Peggy KETTLEWELL) and their only son and my cousin Philip BELLAMY, sadly Philip died in his early twenties. The family lived in a terrace house on a cul-de-sac behind the Roscoe Cinema, though the whole of this area was later cleared to make way for road improvements and the new tram system. One of my earliest memories is attending a 5th of November bonfire night party. This was a communal event with the bonfire built in the middle of the cobbled street and the neighbours contributing baked potatoes, hot chestnuts, slabs of black toffee and toffee apples.