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Cullen Family History
and Genealogy
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 1824 - 1911 (87 years)
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| Name |
John Turner |
| Born |
31 Jul 1824 |
Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
31 Oct 1911 |
Winnipeg, Manitoba [2] |
| Buried |
03 Nov 1911 |
Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba [3] |
| Notes |
- John Turner was a most colourful character. He was a tall man with a flowing mane, full beard and moustache. He was adventuresome at an early age, leaving home to work in the wilds of northwestern New Brunswick. He became one of the Province's well known stagecoach "whips", and he used this expertise, together with a strong and fearsome entrepreneurial spirit, to start new businesses alone and with others. His limitless ambition and drive led to uprooting his family for a new life in Rivière-du-Loup. His enterprise became the basis for the family's wealth and its transformation into railroading.
In 1848, he owned and operated the St. Mary's Ferry. In the 1850s and 1860s, he drove or operated a stagecoach service on a number of routes including Fredericton to St. Andrews and Fredericton to Woodstock. He also took over his father George's cab service for the N.B. Assembly upon George's death. He was also a blacksmith in Fredericton.
In 1868 he and his family moved to Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec, where, in partnership with J.R. Tupper, he commenced a stagecoach/mail courier service along the Grand Portage Route to Edmundston. John took over ownership of the business in 1876 and continued through to the 1890s. It was a substantial operation with up to 28 horses, several drivers, coaches and sleighs, and stables at several points along the route. The service was vastly curtailed with the coming of the Temiscouata Railway along the same route in 1889.
John and his wife Agnes Nicholson had nine children, two of whom died before reaching adulthood. Four of his five sons continued in transportation as railroad engineers.
Agnes died in 1894 in Rivière-du-Loup. John lived his remaining years, there and in Ottawa and Winnipeg, where he died in 1911.
John's legacy was the lure and love of transportation that he instilled in his boys, that carried on in the careers of Turner men in three successive generations.
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| Person ID |
I857 |
Cullen family tree |
| Last Modified |
11 Apr 2020 |
| Father |
George Hutchinson Turner, b. 1788, New Brunswick , d. 22 May 1860, Fredericton, New Brunswick (Age 72 years) |
| Mother |
Catherine Russell, b. 1799, Kingsclear, York County, New Brunswick , d. 14 Mar 1841, Fredericton, New Brunswick (Age 42 years) |
| Married |
21 Jan 1817 |
Fredericton, New Brunswick [4] |
| Family ID |
F545 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Agnes Nicholson, b. 09 Jun 1825, Dumfries, Scotland , d. 28 Sep 1894, Rivière-du-Loup Station, Quebec (Age 69 years) |
| Married |
31 Dec 1847 |
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Fredricton York County, New Brunswick [5] |
| Children |
| | 1. Agnes Turner, b. 1848, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. Bef 1851, Fredericton, New Brunswick (Age < 2 years) [natural] |
| | 2. John Turner, b. Oct 1850, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. 12 May 1860, Fredericton, New Brunswick (Age ~ 9 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Francis Ebenezer Turner, b. 19 Jun 1853, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. 06 Oct 1927, Ottawa, Ontario (Age 74 years) |
| | 4. George Holden Turner, b. 29 Sep 1855, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. 23 Mar 1938, Ottawa, Ontario (Age 82 years) |
| | 5. Henry Alfred Turner, b. 13 Nov 1856, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. 17 Aug 1922, Whitworth, Quebec (Age 65 years) |
| | 6. Frederick James Turner, b. Apr 1860, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. 2 Nov 1915, Two Harbours, Lake County, Minnesota (Age ~ 55 years) |
| | 7. William Edward Turner, b. 21 May 1862, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. 19 Nov 1944, Breakeyville, Quebec (Age 82 years) |
| | 8. Sarah Tupper Turner, b. Feb 1865, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. 10 Oct 1937, Santa Cruz, California (Age ~ 72 years) |
| | 9. Myra Florence Turner, b. 18 Nov 1867, Fredericton, New Brunswick , d. 13 Jun 1954, Orange, California (Age 86 years) |
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| Family ID |
F523 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Histories
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 | Turner, George Hutchinson - Our Transportation Pioneer
George is our second generation Turner ancestor and our first known entrepreneur in the transportation business. Excerpt from A Melding of Cultures Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis Volume 1 Our Turners: Canadian Transportation Pioneers, Mark Cullen, Vancouver, 2013, pp 13-21 and 163-178 |
 | Turner, John (1824-1911) and Agnes Nicholson (1825-1894)
John Turner, our great-great grandfather, was a colourful horseman and stage operator for more than 50 years in New Brunswick and the Temiscouata region of Quebec. Excerpt from A Melding of Cultures, Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis Volume 1 Our Turners: Canadian Transportation Pioneers, Mark Cullen, Vancouver, 2013, pp 23-36, 179-195 and 265-267 |
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| A Melding of Cultures Volume 1: Our Turner Ancestors - Introduction
Table of contents, forward, coats of arms, introduction, structure, acknowledgements and bibliography.
Excerpt from A Melding of Cultures, Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis, Volume 1: Our Turners: Canadian Transportation Pioneers, Mark Cullen, Vancouver, 2013
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 | Holden Turner direct descendants to Mark Cullen
Chart showing the 7 generations from Holden Turner to Mark Cullen. Holden was the first of the family to settle in Canada in 1783. |
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| Sources |
- [S110] York County NB GenWeb.
- [S155] Government of Manitoba Vital Statistics, death certificate reference no. 1911-006189.
- [S108] Winnnipeg Free Press, November 3, 1911.
- [S57] Ancestry.ca Drouin Collection.
- [S2] Marjory McGillivray Waters OLA, Page 126.
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