Researching Wallace Turnage
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 46 people with the Turnage surname? In that year Turnage was ranked number 3533 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Wallace means "A Stranger" and is of French origin.
Records of Wallace Turnage on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Wallace Turnage and the Turnage Genealogy
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 73 people with the Turnage surname in the UK? Turnage is now ranked number 3973 for popularity in the UK. |
Turnage Genealogy Databases
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Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Wallace Turnage. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Wallace Turnage
Wallace Turnage
Wallace Turnage (1846 – 1916) was an escaped slave who wrote a narrative that was published.
He was born in North Carolina, and was the son of a fifteen-year-old slave and a white man. He was sold multiple times and made repeated attempts to run away, and succeeded. He lived in New York and New Jersey, working as a waiter, janitor, glass blower and finally as a watchman.
His manuscript was passed on to his daughter, Lydia Turnage Connolly (1885 – 1984). After her death, it was another 20 years before it was published. In 2007, Civil War historian David W. Blight published A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, the two men being Turnage and John M. Washington.
The Wallace Turnage Historic Marker was established in Mobile, Alabama.
Source: Wallace Turnage, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Turnage
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