Thurner

Thurner
Recorded in several spellings including Turner, Turnor, Thurner, Tourner and Tournor, this is an English surname. It has three possible origins. Firstly, it may be an occupational name for a maker of small objects of wood, metal, or bone by turning on a lather, deriving from the Anglo-Norman French "torner". Secondly, it may be a nickname for a fast runner, from the Middle English elements "turnen" to turn plus "hare" hare. Thirdly, it may be occupational for an official in charge of a tournament, deriving from the Old French "tornei". The surname dates back to the late 12th Century (see below). Further recordings include Ralph le Turner (1191 - 1192) in the Pipe Rolls of Leicestershire, and Bernard Turnehare (1224) in the Curia Regis Rolls of Staffordshire. London Church Records show the marriage of John Turner to Amy German on April 19th 1553, at St. Leonard's, Eastcheap, and the christening of Thomasyn Turnor, the daughter of Thomas Turnor, at the church of St Mary Aldermary, in the city of London, on November 16th 1599. John Turner, with his two sons, was one of the passengers on the "Mayflower", the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620. The most famous bearer of the name was Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851), the English landscape painter and master of water colours. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Warner le Turnur, which was dated 1180, in the "Pipe Rolls of London", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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