Tourner Family Crest & Name History

Tourner is how some branches of the Turner family came to write their name. Name scholars give the meaning as “Lathe worker”. Tourner is listed among the recognised spellings of Turner. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Related forms: Turnor and Turnour.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Tourner, so the heraldry linked to Turner is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Tourner report, with a museum-style coat of arms.