Kenneth Legh was the son of Frederick (also Fred) John Turner and his second wife Emily Cunynghame (also Cunningham) née Horne.
His father Frederick John was born in London on 2 January 1824, the son of Joseph and Ann Turner. He married Charlotte Eliza Escudier (b. 29 January 1824), the daughter of Richard and Eliza Escudier, at Firbeck parish church, Yorkshire, on 29 May 1851. Frederick and Charlotte had at least seven children, Frederick, Eliza Ann, Joseph Hurling, Thomas Warner, Harry Gordon, Richard John and Charlotte Maria. The two older children were born in London but the younger ones were born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, where their father was land agent for the Dukes of Portland's Ayrshire estates. Frederick was to be their land agent for nearly 50 years.
Charlotte Eliza died in 1868 and Frederick married secondly Emily Horne (b. Edinburgh 1846), in Edinburgh on 13 December 1870. He and Emily had eight children: Caroline Emily b. 1872, David Neville b. 1873, George John b. 1874, Charles Edward b. abt 1876 and Kenneth Legh b. abt 1878 who were all born in Kilmarnock, and Freda Harriett Alida b. 1880, Arthur William Lindsay b. 1881 and Elizabeth Stewart b. 1886, who were all born in Mansfield Woodhouse.
Between 1861 and 1871 the family home was at Dean House, Kilmarnock, but by 1881 Frederick and Emily had moved to Cross Hill, Mansfield Woodhouse. In the home on the night of the census were three children by his first marriage - Thomas a land agent's clerk, Richard and Charlotte, and their six children, Caroline, David, George, Charles, Kenneth (3) and Freda.
Frederick and Emily were living on Church Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, by 1891 and were still at the same address in 1901. By then only Freda, Arthur and Elizabeth and their half-sister, Eliza Ann (44) were still living at home. Kenneth has not yet been traced on either the 1901 or 1911 Census and may have already left the UK for Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where he lived at Edwaleni.
Frederick John died on 10 March 1906; the probate record gave his profession as estate-steward. His sons Joseph and Thomas, estate agents, and David, mining engineer, were executors of his Will.
His widow Emily was still living on Church Street in 1911 along with her stepdaughter, Eliza.
Emily died on 23 November 1921. Both she and her husband were interred in St Edmund King & Martyr churchyard, Mansfield Woodhouse.
Kenneth's brother, Arthur William, worked in Ceylon and served with the Ceyon Planters Rifle Corps at Gallipoli where he was severely wounded.