Miss Bertha Turnor and Master Graham Turnor
(1856-1943 and 1853-1934)
9 July 1861

Volume 4, page 190, sitting number 4829.

Bertha Kathleen Turnor was baptised at South Stoke in Lincolnshire on 6 October 1856. Her parents were the landlowner and former Member of Parliament Christopher Turnor and his wife Lady Caroline née Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 10th Earl of Winchilsea. 

She appears on the 1881 census living with her parents and sister Dora at Stoke Rochford Hall, their father's seat in Lincolnshire. Also present on the night of the census were twenty-five servants, including a butler, an under-butler, and two footmen, with more servants living in nearby buildings on the estate. 

When Christopher Turnor died on 7 March 1886 his effects were valued at £86,369.

Bertha Kathleen Turnor never married. She died, aged 86, at Weymouth in Dorset on 11 July 1943. She left effects valued at £686. 

Her brother Graham Augustus Turnor was born on 13 September 1853 and was baptised on 18 October 1853 at South Stoke, Lincolnshire. 

He appears on the 1871 census living at Stoke Rochford Hall with his parents and three of his siblings. Also present on the night of the census were a tutor, a governess, and thirty live-in servants. 

He emigrated to Australia, where he married firstly Annie Riddell in Queensland on 18 July 1880. This marriage produced four daughters, including one whom he named Bertha Kathleen after his sister. His first wife died in 1889. In 1897 he married secondly Beatrice Cranstone. This marriage produced another daughter and one son. 

Graham Augustus Turnor died at Bolinbroke near Port Mackay in Queensland on 20 August 1934.

[From an album probably compiled by the sitters' aunt, the Honourable Mrs Marianne Turnor née Macdonald, wife of Captain Henry Martin Turnor.]