Ted Turner

Edward John Turner (20 December 1921 – 23 September 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with in the Victorian Football League and for Brighton in the Victorian Football Association in the 1940s and 1950s. Family The son of William Hector "Wally" Turner (1891-1949), a veteran of English and Irish descent, and Emily Maria Turner (1889-1966), née Graham, née Phelan, also of English and Irish descent, with ancestors living in Tasmania as early as the 1820s, Edward John Charles Turner was born at Elsternwick, Victoria, on 20 December 1921. He was the youngest of their 5 children. Marriage After returning from the European front in 1944, he married Nellie Ann Casey (1923-2014), in 1944 at St Aloysius Catholic Church. Nellie, like Edward, was of a mix of Irish and English heritage. Her father was well-known horse trainer Sylvester Patrick Casey (1866-1950); and, through her mother's maternal grandmother, Eleanor Kate Thickins, née Beardmore, is related to British Industrialist William Beardmore, the major figure in engineering and shipbuilding who was later given the title of Lord Invernairn.