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Turpin
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John Turpin was Headmaster of Middleton School, county Cork, in the 1820s. By deed dated 20 December 1839 [Registry of Deeds] he purchased the Young Grove estate in the parish of Dungourney from Cosen Foulke and lived there following his retirement from the school. In April 1870 Sarah Jane Turpin, widow of John Turpin, deceased, advertised the sale of 325 acres. In the 1870s the Reverend Sydney Turpin of Young Grove owned 919 acres in the county. In 1938 Mrs. Geraldine Foley-Turpin, Youngrove, Midleton, was still waiting to be paid for tenanted land bought from her by the Irish Land Commission. see http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0070/D.0070.193803090026.html
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