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See details about my great great grandfather. I should be called Turner but my great grandfather remounced the name in 1912 to become Underwood (no idea why?). Contact me if you have any details JOHN TURNER, a labourer, married ANN WARING, b. about 1825 in Wotton under Edge. In 1853 they were living at Quay Court, Gloucester, when their son, THOMAS TURNER was born on 31 December 1853 in Gloucester. In 1861, the census records Thomas Turner living at Long Street, Wotton under Edge with his mother ANN TURNER, a widow and tailoress, b. Wotton under Edge about 1825, together with his sisters MARIA TURNER, b. Cheltenham 1850, ALMA TURNER, b. Gloucester 1856 and ROSA TURNER, b. Gloucester 1857. In 1871, Thomas Turner was still living with his mother, now at The Chipping, Wotton under Edge, when at the age of 18, he is recorded as a “drapers assistant”. Sister Maria, now a milner, and Rosa, were still living with them. Sister Alma was living in service with a local family. In 1881, Ann Turner is recorded living alone in Market Square, Wotton under Edge as a dressmaker. Wotton under Edge was a centre of the local wool industry which, up the 19th century, produced one third of woollen cloth in England. The local industry then went into rapid decline in the 19th century as the industrial mills of West Yorkshire developed. Perhaps spurred by a decline in available work, Thomas Turner moved to Bradford where he worked as a draper’s assistant and went on to marry FRANCES UNDERWOOD. When their first son Arthur Underwood Turner was born in 1876, they were living at 34 Oakfield Terrace, Soothill.