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So -
going back to your original query about when the family travelled back to UK (and no help with your new query about Mary!), James, at least, must have travelled back between the 1880 census date, and the date of his marriage in 1881 - assuming the marriage is of the same James and Mary.

Do you have a copy of the cert to ascertain parents' names? - which would also help with your search for Mary's parents.

A long shot:

this seems to be the only Mary Turner with no middle name, born 1862 (apparently), living in Auckland area in 1881:

Can't see her in 1871, though.

Mary Turner
in the 1881 England Census
Name: Mary Turner
Age: 19
Estimated birth year: abt 1862
Relationship to Head: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Willington, Durham, England
Civil Parish: Merrington
County/Island: Durham
Country: England
Street address: Merrington Village
Occupation: General Serv
Registration district: Auckland
ED, institution, or vessel: 34
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 4921
Folio: 49
Page Number: 22
Household Members:
Name Age
John Brown 37
Mary Ann Brown 35
Robert Waldow Brown 1
Mary Turner 19
John Stainthorpe 23
William Dobson 19

a maybe in 1871
William Cocking Head - Male 40 1831 - Nottinghamshire, England Transcription
Jane Cocking Wife - Female 32 1839 - Nottinghamshire, England Transcription
John Cocking Son - Male 13 1858 - Nottinghamshire, England Transcription
Harriett Cocking Daughter - Female 11 1860 - Nottinghamshire, England Transcription
Jane Fowler Cocking Daughter - Female 10 1861 - Nottinghamshire, England Transcription
Mary Doncaster Mother - Female 50 1821 - Nottinghamshire, England Transcription
George Turner Head - Male 40 1831 - Yorkshire, England Transcription
Margaret Turner Wife - Female 36 1835 - Durham, England Transcription
John Ward Son-In-Law - Male 15 1856 - Durham, England Transcription
Margaret Ann Ward Daughter-In-Law - Female 12 1859 - Durham, England Transcription
Elizebeth Ward Daughter-In-Law - Female 10 1861 - Durham, England Transcription
Mary Turner Daughter - Female 8 1863 - Durham, England Transcription
Hannah Turner Daughter - Female 6 1865 - Durham, England Transcription
Jane Turner Daughter - Female 5 1866 - Durham, England Transcription
Charlotte Turner Daughter - Female 2 1869 - Durham, England Transcription
Census details
First name(s) Mary
Last name Turner
Relationship Daughter
Marital status -
Gender Female
Age 8
Birth year 1863
Occupation -
Birth town -
Birth county Durham
Birth county as transcribed COUNTY DURHAM
Birth place England
House name -
Street Private House
Parish Bishop Auckland
Town -
City -
County Durham
Country England
Registration district Auckland
Archive reference RG10
Piece number 4925
Folio 43
Page 22
Record set 1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Category Census, land & surveys
Subcategory Census
Collections from Great Britain
(c) brightsolid online publishing ltd

Hi,everybody.I'm looking for the parents of Mary Turner,c.1861-1952 who married James Allison in 1881,Auckland.I would also like to know if she remarried after James died in 1922.This remarry would obviously have been in the U.S.

All help gratefully received,Terry L.

Thanks to all replies.As advised have removed thread for Mary Turner and added to this thread.
Argylgran-,the family did travel to America in 1879 and again in 1880 before finally settling there.
Maddie-this appears to be a very good likelyhood.

Regards,Terry.L

If the death record posted by Maddie at 12:48 today is the correct one, then no, she didn't remarry.

Hi,after contacting a distant relative she seems to have heard of a newspaper clipping,(from which U.S.paper,I don't know) showing transfer of property from a Mary Allison Davis to a James Clarence Allison(son of James and Mary Allison).
Hence the idea of second marriage for Mary?Also there appears there's death record for a Mary Davis in Michigan.She didn't give a date.Parents listed as George and Margaret,from parish of Auckland which would tie in with Maddie entry at 13:41 today.
Regards,Terry.L.

from a tree on ancestry

mary turner

Birth
Oct 1862 • England
3 Sources
1862
(AGE)
Marriage
Apr 1881 • Auckland, Durham
April - June Quarter
James Allison (1860–1922)
2 Sources
1881
18
Birth of Daughter Elizabeth Allison(1885–1918)
5 Apr 1885 • Auckland, Durham, United Kingdom
1885
22
Arrival
17 May 1888 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3 Sources
1888
25
Birth of Son James Clarence Allison(1894–1958)
04 Jan 1894 • Pennsylvania
1894
31
Birth of Son George Henry Allison(1900–1917)
14 May 1900 • Moshannon, Pennsylvania
1900
37
Residence
1900 • Gearhartville, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, USA
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
1 Source
1900
38
Residence
1910 • Decatur, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Age: 47; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
1 Source
1910
48
Death of Son George Henry Allison(1900–1917)
21 May 1917 • Clearfield, Pennsylvania
1917
54
Death of Daughter Elizabeth Allison(1885–1918)
14 Dec 1918 • Graham Station, Pennsylvania
1918
56
Death of Husband James Allison(1860–1922)
17 Dec 1922 • Pleasant Hill, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
1922
60
Death
1952
1 Source
1952
90
Burial
1952 • Chester Hill, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, USA
1 Source

newapaper article yu mention is in the
Clearfield Progress (Clearfield, Pennsylvania)
1937 June 5

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it is a lot in Decatur township

There are two suggestions as to Mary's place of birth in trees on Ancestry -

Selby, Yorkshire (no proof offered, and no such birth shows on FreeBMD);
[EDIT: There's the birth of a Mary Allison, but not a Mary Turner.]

Blackburn, Lancs ("proofs" include 1900 & 1910 US censuses, the 1888 travel record, and the findagrave site - none of which say more than that she was English. Also two 1891 UK census records for completely different families, one of which included a wife named Mary, who was born in Blackburn!)

Several (probably copying form one another) give October as the month of birth - but goodness knows where they got that from.
Year of birth varies from 1860 to 1863.

Basically, nobody knows where or when she was born, or who her parents were.

Thanks again Everyone.Terry L.

If you buy a copy of her marriage cert, that will at least give you her father's name, on which to base research.
Wiithout that, we're groping in the dark, I'm afraid.

Thank You,Terry.L.