Will ended up living a life in Port Royal as a blacksmith's apprentice. Elizabeth takes from the unconscious Will a souvenir a medallion bearing the skull of a pirate’s Jolly Roger hoping to save his life. Dauntless, he met young Elizabeth Swann, the daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann.
Unbeknownst to Will, the crew of the Black Pearl has been searching for the gold medallion, which was needed to break an ancient Aztec curse.Īs The Curse of the Black Pearl opens, young Will Turner is pulled from the Caribbean Sea drifting amidst the murdered crew and burning wreckage of a British ship attacked by pirates. Prior to this, he received a gift from his father: a gold medallion, which Will thought was just an exotic trinket that his father had picked up on his travels.
After his mother died, Will went out in search of his father. Will grew up believing his father to be a respectable merchant seaman. However, Will's father was absent during his early childhood, so Will was raised by his mother while living in England.
According to Jack Sparrow, Will looked just like his father.
Born with the name 'William Turner', Will was the only child of Bootstrap Bill Turner.
