Ellen Turnbull

     
     Ellen Turnbull was born bef. 31 Dec 1846 in Cambridge, CAM, ENG.^3,1
     Ellen Turnbull married Frederick Richard T Bolton, son of Frederick Samuel Bolton and Mary Ann Rowley, bef. 31 Dec 1883 reg. Wirral, CHS, ENG.⁴
     Ellen Bolton died bef. 9 Dec 1918 in West Kirby, Dist of Wirral, CHS, ENG; aged 71.^5,6,7 Her estate was probated on 9 Dec 1918 in Chester, CHS, ENG; to Sir Robert Turnbull and Walter Rowley Bolton, the executors.⁵
     
     The census of 7 Apr 1861 showed Louisa, Ellen, Sarah and Edith and their brothers Robert and Walter in the household of their parents Robert and Louisa Philipine Turnbull in the Village, Wybunbury, CHS, ENG, enumerated as TURNBULL: Robert, head, 49 Vicar Wybunbury b Kirk on Esk, Cumberland; wife Louisa Philippine 48 b Dou?? France; Children (all scholars): Louisa Mary Ann 15; Ellen 14, both b Cambridge; Sarah 11 b Keighley, Yorkshire; Robert 9; Edith 7; Walter 5 all b Whitchurch, Shropshire.² Ellen Turnbull appeared on the census of 7 Apr 1871 in the Vicarage, Wybunbury, Nantwich, CHS, ENG, in the household of Robert Turnbull and Louisa P Turnbull as daughter of Robert.¹
     Ellen Turnbull appeared on the census of 1881 in the School House, Caldy, CHS, ENG, with Sarah Turnbull, enumerated as TURNBULL: Ellen, head, teacher, unm, 34, b Cambridge; Sister Sarah, school mistress unm 31 b Keighley, York. Servant Elisabeth Powell, 20 dom serv b Acre Fair Denbigh, WLS.⁸ On 1 Feb 1886 Ellen was the sole beneficiary to the will of her husband Frederick Richard Thomas Bolton at Braeside, Kirby Park, West Kirby, CHS, ENG.^9,10
     The census of 5 Apr 1891 showed Ellen with her husband Frederick at Braeside School, Kirby Park, West Kirby, CHS, ENG, household enumerated as BOLTON: Frederick R J, 39 schoolmaster b Salt STF; wife Ellen 44 b Cambridge plus assorted tutors, visitors (H M Wade, 7 K Wade 11 both females b Rock Ferry, CHS) and boarders.¹¹ Ellen Bolton was confirmed as executor of the estate of Frederick Richard Thomas Bolton on 30 Oct 1896 at Chester, CHS, ENG.¹²
     Ellen Bolton at Braeside, West Kirby, CHS, ENG, wrote a will on 15 Feb 1897 appointing Robert Turnbull and Walter Rowley Bolton as executor(s) leaving the residue of her estate to be divided equally between her sisters Edith Turnbull and Mabel M Turnbull and specific legacies to Louisa R Turnbull and Walter Turnbull At the time she described herself as a widow and was expecting to become entitled to property on the death of her mother-in-law Mary Anne Bolton, such property so inherited to be divided equally between her (Mary Anne's) sons Walter Rowley Bolton, Reginald Cotton Bolton, and son-in-law Richard Cotton or any of their children that may survive them. The Trustees to have the final decision as to the division should any dispute arise. The remainder of her estate "real and personal" was to pay the following legacies: £40 to her mother; £30 each to her brothers Walter and Robert Turnbull, and £10 to her brother-in-law Walter Rowley Bolton and the remainder of her estate to be held in trust for her sisters Edith and Mabel Turnbull "in equal moieties" or for the survivor of the two (from this I assume that sister Sarah had died by 1897).^5,13,14
     The census of 1901 showed Ellen Bolton in the household of Walter and Rosetta Turnbull at 73 Trinity Rd, Handsworth, STS, ENG, enumerated as TURNBULL: Walter M, head, 45 Railway Superintendent, worker, b Whitchurch, Shrophsire; wife Rosetta 44 b Liverpool, LAN; Children (both b Frodsham): Eric M 13; Douglas 10. Visitor: Kate BARTON 20, single b Colton STS. Servant Ellen Bolton 54 b CAM (Walter and Ellen are siblings, Ellen now being a widow even though she is shown as single).⁷