STRAY THINGS THAT I AM TRYING TO CONNECT

All the information given below is all that is to hand at this moment if you can shed any light on these it would be helpful.

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Ben Turford - (Croperdy in north Oxfordshire about 4 miles north of Banbur)

Later in his cottage came the Turfords. Next door lived Daisy Townsend who was looking after her Father. Then he died and she looked after Mr Turford. Father and son, both of whom were called Ben. At about sixtyfive Daisy married Ben the Father, the widower. Daisy was a simple soul and Ben had to move into her house as she would not move out. She was really pleased to be married and would walk upright, strutting slightly waving along the road. She seemed to be saying "I am married." She was good to Ben. They were married at the Chapel. She is buried up at the cemetery. Ben's son Ben retired in l978, after serving many years on the railway.

Above extract take from http://www.mewslade.freeserve.co.uk/pet/pcl22.htm 

"The Town of Cropredy 1570 - 1640"

(Ben Turford (1877-1947) G525,plate layer on railway, lay preacher. Lived High St.Cottages. m I) -? Son Ben also on railway 2) 1939 when 62 Daisy aged 55 a sp.died 1960 aged 75. C38. Ben moved to Daisy’s cottage)

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Theophilus Turford LXIX merchant 17th Century Marylanders Somerset USA -Somerset County was opened for settlement in 1661 for the purpose of, in the words of the Proprietor, securing the "better . . . remembrance of the bounds between Virginia and Maryland". The new frontier area encompassed some two thousand square miles of land which today are divided among the Maryland counties of Somerset, Worcester, and Wicomico; the southern part of Sussex County Delaware; and a small northern strip of Accomack County, Virginia. The land was fertile, well-served by the Bay and numerous inland waterways as transportation lanes, and sparsely populated by relatively peaceable Indians.

Theophilus married MARY

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The Scriven Family Tree (at this site the name of Turford is mentioned)

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Came across this as a word in German and translated into Chinese, any translators out there. (have highlighted where the word Turford appears any ideas?)

Deutsch->:Chinesisch
Suche nach Konjunkturförderung, Sätze 1 bis 1
Konjunkturförderung 
Wirtschafts-/ Ordnungspolitik 
Mikro/Makrobegriffe 

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Found

Turford, Solomon (Marriage) in the district of Cannock UK 1895

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ID: I48860681 Name: James TURFORD Given Name: James Surname: TURFORD Sex: M Birth: Abt Sep 1860 in West Bromwich, Sts Note: REFN: P (This is James probably brother of Thomas Turford born 1857 sons of Thomas Turford born 1853?)

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ID: I48860669 Name: Thomas TURFORD Given Name: Thomas Surname: TURFORD Sex: M Birth: Abt Jun 1855 in Walsall, Sts Note: REFN: P

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A Turford appears in Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900

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Turford  (Male)

Title(s): Reverend Date: 1731  

Occupation(s): cleric(a)    

Subscribed to Sermons on several occasions (Vol. 1), 1731, MARSHALL, Nathaniel. London
Subject: religion

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Turford, J. (Male)

Title(s): Esquire

Address(es): Thornbury, Herefordshire
Date: 1833       

Subscribed to A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands; A Map of England, shewing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals; and a plan of London and its environs; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, universities, colleges, corporate towns, and boroughs, and of the seals of the several municipal corporations. Second edition. With an Appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late Act. By Samuel Lewis Vol. I., 1833, LEWIS, Samuel. London, Andover
Printed by S. Lewis and Co., 87, Aldersgate-Street. Bensley, printer, Andover
Subject: topography, history           

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TURFORD Mary "Serv Unm 26, b Ludlow, 1851 Cen, Ladywood Lane, Ladywood, B'ham WAR"

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EXTRACT form a will 

DATE: 10 JUN 1669

PROVED: Acknowledged 7 DEC 1683

TESTATOR: Ralph Cordell of Gravesend

SPOUSE: Elizabeth

CHILDREN: None Named

WITNESSES: Dirck Jans Vandervliet, Jane Rider, Theophilus Turford (see Theophilus mentioned earlier on this page)

OVERSEERS: Estate not to be dimished without the consent of Samuel Willson of NY and 

John Ryder of Maspeth Kills

OTHERS NAMED: Ack. Before John Spragg, Sr.

PROPERTY: All to be a Deed of Gift to his wife out of “cordial love and natural affection”

SOURCE: NYHS Collections I

FOUND AT http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5456/liny2.htm

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