Henry TURNER was born in 1831 in Rothwell, Yorkshire. He was christened on 2 Oct 1831.
He married Elizabeth in Leeds in June 1854. One of the witnesses was his older brother Joseph. Elizabeth had been born a few miles south of Rothwell in Lofthouse. They had at least seven children between 1854 and 1876. Perhaps Ann TURNER who is recorded as dying in Castleford in Mar 1866 was a daughter.
Henry is identified as the daughter of Mary TURNER on her marriage certificate.
By profession Henry was a coal miner and worked in Methley, Mickletown and Castleford, perhaps in the opencast mines there. He may have worked alongside his older brother Joseph who was a labourer at a pit in Rothwell.
Its possible that he was with his parents in 1841, however the census records Mary aged 9 and Emma aged 7 and not the expected Henry aged 9 and Thomas aged 7. Could the enumerator have misread Mary for Henry and Emma for Thos? Or where these additional children?
At age 19 in 1851 Henry is coal mining. In 1861 he was living in Mickletown with his wife and three eldest children, and in 1871 they were in Allerton Bywater, just outside Castleford, with four of their children. In 1881 he was living at 3 Denton Terrace, Castleford with his wife and three youngest children. He is still a coal miner in 1881. In 1891, Henry is still living with Elizabeth and sons Henry and Alfred in Castleford, but he is now working as a grocer.
By 1901, Henry is retired, now a widower, living on his own means in a boarding house, still in Castleford.
Henry TURNER died on 19 Mar 1910, aged 79 at the Pontefract Union Infirmary, part of the Fanshelf Workhouse. He died of "colic syncope", that is he passed out, possibly as a result of the pain of a (then) inoperable gall or kidney stone, or some intestinal blockage.
