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I am not related but own a book of New Brunswick with a John Turnbull in it and wanted to pass this on to help who ever:
John Turnbull born in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland on Oct 17, 1808 and was the son of John Turnbull Sr. and Mary MacNair and he married a Marion ?, and Died in dumbarton, Scotland on June 2, 1881. This John Turnbull Jr. was a minister of a chuirch in Peth, Scotland before coming to New Brunswick in 1840, as the first resident Presbyterian minister of Blackville. Turnbull arrieved a month later in the ship Marchioness of Queensbury, and after delivering sermons in Newcastle and Chatham, was inducted into the Blackville charge. with the help of his wife he began a missionry and preached at schoolhouses in Nelson, Blackville, blissfield, and Ludlow parishes. In June 1844 he went to Britain on a vacation without committing his self to staying on in Blackville, , He came back to New Brunswick and joined up with 2 other ministers, and created a New Brunswick presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church at Derby.He spended 12 years there, and church records indicate that he departed in 1852. In 1854 he was inducted as the minister of Charlotte Co, in NB. After serving 20 years there he resigned in 1874 and returned to Scotland. 7 years later he died at his residence in dumbarton. His wife predeceased him by two years. They left no family. (sources come from. LDS Librarys, We beleive this wife was Marion Poe at Perth Scotland. I hope this helps someone.
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