Mary Besford (née Turnbull) (1865–1951)
Mary Turnbull met David Besford while he was preaching in the street. They married in 1887 and had twelve children, eight of whom survived childhood.
Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire is a historic county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, in the south-east of the Scottish Borders and sharing a boundary with Northumberland. Its towns include Hawick, Kelso and Jedburgh.
Mary Turnbull, who married David Besford in 1887, came from Roxburghshire farming families.
Border Reivers
The raiding families of the Anglo-Scottish border lived outside the law for some 300 years, owing allegiance to their family name rather than to either country.
Scottish Ancestry of Mary Besford (née Turnbull)
Several Reiver family names occur in Mary Turnbull’s ancestry.
George Turnbull and Mary Turnbull (née Barron) (both 1841–1926)
George Turnbull and Mary Barron were the parents of Mary Turnbull, who married David Besford (1863–1954) in December 1887.