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Hi Julia,

Not sure if this is your Margaret Elizabeth, age seems right b1864.

Name: Turner
Given Names: Margaret E
Age: 26 years
Ship: Jumna
Departed: London, 25th July,1890
Arrived: Brisbane, 18th September,1890

Marriage in Queensland

Date/Reg: 1893/C001878
Family Name: Turner
Given Names: Margaret Elizabeth
Other Party's Name : William Henry Northam

bye Helen

The possibilities are that they died or emigrated or in Margaret's case married, or the name is badly transcribed or they just missed the census for some reason. The odd thing is that are both missing and I would not have expected them to be together. It's very difficult with common names (I was amazed how many Samuel Turner's there are) so unless he used his middle name somewhere it will be hard to find him. As they are missing from 1891 and 1901 emigration seems a possibility. Not much help.

Sorry, Julia, I can't find anything except for the father with his new wife, Harriet, in 1891 but I expect you already have that.

Jill - Many thanks, this is the cousin of the same name.- Julia

Yes Micheal I have tried all of them as best I can.
Potty - yes they were living in two households, as their mother had died just before the census.
Many thanks to all - Julia

Marriages Sep 1888 (98%)
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BECKEY Eleanor Tendring 4a 564
Turner Samuel Webster Tendring 4a 564
Underwood Harriet Tendring 4a 564
WOODARD James Arthur Tendring 4a 564

Yes Margaret, that information is correct, they were all one family, their mother dying just before the census. Great Gidding comes/or did come under Oundle, which is where I had her birth certificate from, with her full name as Margaret Eliza Wells Webster Turner. Many thanks - Julia

Julia

Are they living in two different households in 1881:

1881 England Census
about Samuel W. Turner
Name: Samuel W. Turner
Age: 11
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870
Relation: Nephew
Gender: Male
Where born: Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England

Civil Parish: Whittlesey
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Street address: Gracious St
Education:

Employment status: View Image
Occupation: Scholar

Registration district: Whittlesey
Sub-registration district: Whittlesey
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Annie M. Turner 42
Eleanor A. Turner 14
Gertrude E. Turner 7
Ira W. Turner 18
John Turner 5
Samuel W. Turner 11

1881 England Census
about Eliza Turner
Name: Eliza Turner
Age: 17
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1864
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: William
Gender: Female
Where born: St Gidding, Huntingdon, England

Civil Parish: Whittlesey
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Street address: Gracious St
Education:

Employment status: View Image
Occupation: Baker's Daughter

Registration district: Whittlesey
Sub-registration district: Whittlesey
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Eliza Turner 17
Eunice M. Turner 10
Nancy B. Turner 2
Oliver T. Turner 8
William Turner 41

Have you checked marriages for Margaret? Have you checked deaths and emigration for both?

On the 81 census Samuel W. Turner, born 1870, Whittlesey is living with his aunt, Annie Turner in Whittlesey but there's no Margaret or Eliza in that household.
There's Eliza Turner, 17, living next door with her widowed father, William. Says she was born St. Gidding, Hunts.

I was impressed by the help Midland Margaret got to her near impossible question, and thought I'd try again. I have the two following people in their family's census for 1881, then they both vanish. They are brother and sister, Margaret Eliza Wells Webster Turner b. 1864, - in the 1871 as Margaret, and in the 1881 as Eliza, but I have her birth certificate and that is her proper name, and brother Samuel Webster Turner b 1870. Margaret's birth was registered in Oundle, and Samuel's in Whittlesey, and they lived in Whittlesey at the time of the 1881. Samuel should not be confused with his cousin of the same name, from Norfolk.I hope this is not too cheeky an ask, and I am able to stay at the computer until 6.00, although I know it may take alot longer than that. Many thanks in anticipation. - Julia