When Ann Turnbull was born in 1778, in Long Benton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Turnbull, was 32 and her mother, Ann Hannah, was 28. She married Ralph Dixon on 24 May 1801, in Gateshead, Durham, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Gateshead, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Gateshead Fell St John, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano." Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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