When William Turnbull was born about 1580, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, his father, George Turnbull, was 31 and his mother, Margaret Anderson, was 27. He married Margaret Law on 21 July 1607, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died about 1627, in his hometown, at the age of 49.
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English (Durham and Northumberland) and Scottish: occupational name for one who herds bulls, from Middle English turne-bole, a compound of Middle English t(o)urnen ‘turn, direct, steer’ + bul(l)e ‘bull’. Compare Bulman and Bullard.
Scottish (Roxburghshire): in the Scottish borderlands the name was either confused with or derived from Trumble .
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