Edwin Benjamin Evans TURNER

1843 - 1935  (92 years)

• Name	Edwin Benjamin Evans TURNER
  Birth	18 Jun 1843	Auckland, New Zealand
  Christening	14 Sep 1845	Auckland, New Zealand   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Misc	19 Aug 1882	New Zealand Herald, Papers Past Article   [1]
  	Misc
  Misc	18 Jun 1928	New Zealand Herald, Papers Past Article   [1]
  	Misc
  Misc	27 Jun 1928	Rodney and Otamatea Times, Papers Past Article   [1]
  	Misc
  _FSFTID	KVGF-KXY
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KVGF-KXY
  _UID	8974CB5524CA4954AFCA00AB2D48CD3B49A9
  Death	28 Nov 1935	Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand
  Burial	29 Nov 1935	Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand   [1]
  Person ID	I22996	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Gov. Benjamin Evans TURNER,   b. 25 Mar 1796, Worcestershire, England d. 4 Oct 1876, Retreat Cottage, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Zilda Perriman CLAYTON,   b. Nov 1823, Port Sorrell near Hobart, Tasmania d. 14 Apr 1891, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand (Age ~ 67 years)
  Marriage	28 Apr 1840	Kororareka, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
  Family ID	F2933	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Caroline Sarah WOOTON,   b. 14 Mar 1847, St. Giles, Cripplegate, England d. 27 Nov 1911, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1866	Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
  Children	1. Evans Benjamin John TURNER,   b. 1867, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand d. Yes, date unknown   2. Minnie Ethel TURNER,   b. 7 Aug 1868, Auckland, New Zealand d. 9 Sep 1938, Suva, Central, Fiji (Age 70 years)   3. Benjamin Evans TURNER,   b. 19 Oct 1877, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand d. 12 Aug 1902, Wellington, New Zealand (Age 24 years)   4. Camelia Beatrice TURNER,   b. 13 Jul 1880, Auckland, New Zealand d. 17 Dec 1881, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand (Age 1 year)   5. George Henry TURNER,   b. Dec 1883, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand d. 1930, Lautoka, Western, Fiji (Age ~ 46 years)   6. Charles Stanford TURNER,   b. 1885, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand d. 25 Sep 1950, Greenlane, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F2924	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 22279, 29 NOVEMBER 1935, PAGE 12 EARLY WHALER MR. E. TURNER'S DEATH ——— AN OLD AUCKLANDER LIFE OF ADVENTURE The death of one of the oldest-born Aucklanders, Mr. Edwin Benjamin Evans Turner, occurred yesterday at his son's residence at Tranmere Road, Sandringham. Mr Turner was the only surviving child of the late Mr. Benjamin Turner, who was informally elected as governor of the Bay of Islands before the establishment of official British rule. Benjamin Turner was making his second trip to New Zealand in 1820 when his whaler was wrecked in the vicinity of the Bay of Islands and all except himself and one other crew were killed and eaten by the Maoris. As the shipwrecked crew were being marched into the pa a woman related to Hongi Ika selected Mr. Turner as a slave. He became Tapu and was allowed to have a life of one of his companions spared. Later he married the Maori, but two years after her death in 1930 he married the daughter of one of the first white settlers in the Bay of Islands. The family later came to Auckland and Mr. Edwin Turner, the third son, was born in a cottage on the hill between Victoria and Durham Streets. He remembered well the hanging of the Maori, Maketu on Barrack Hill, now Albert Park for the murder of Mrs. Roberton and other on Motu-arobbia in the Bay of Islands, and the gathering of settlers who had come by farmcart and buggy from as far away as Otahuh and Waiuku. At the age of 14 Edwin B.E. Turner ran away to sea and reached London, where he was persuaded by Dr. Brown of the firm Logan Campbell and Brown to return home. He then joined Colonel Nixon's troops and was engage in carrying mail through dangerous country to Pokeno. Later he built the Hamilton Hotel for his brother and took charge of the business. Mr. Turner (Edwin B.E. Turner) served in Otago stations and later farmed at Helensville, where, as the result of a gun accident, he lost his right hand. He also worked in the crews of the old paddle-steamers, Nevada, Nebraska and Dakotah in the mail service to San Francisco. On leaving the sea Edwin managed cattle stations in Fiji and finally returned to Auckland in the 'nineties to take up the business of contracting. His wife died 21 years ago (1914) and four years later he retired and took up residence with one of his sons. One of Edwin's brothers was the late Hon. J. B. Turner, a well-known Fiji trader who presented to the Auckland War Memorial Museum one of the finest Polynesian collections in the world. The funeral will take place at Waikumete Cemetery this afternoon.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 29 Apr 2024), entry for Edwin Benjamin Evans TURNER, person ID KVGF-KXY. (Reliability: 3).