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This page expands an Evidence link in Identity — candidate overview: the findings, sources, and qualifications behind the marked passage.
Analysis
Shared matching-criteria profile: tailor, wife Mary, five named children, birth c.1602–1610, gone from England by 1641
Any English candidate for the Braintree emigrant must satisfy one shared profile drawn from his colonial baseline: a tailor by trade; married to a wife named Mary who bore children Sarah, Mary, Richard, John, and Peter; born in England within a c.1602–1610 window read off his own 1652/3 age deposition; and gone from the English record by the time he first appears in Massachusetts in June 1641. A settled Puritan household is a soft fifth criterion. This whole profile, not a bare surname match, is the shared test applied to every alternative candidate.
Why this conclusion
- Synthesizes Finding Arrival window: 1638–early 1641The 1638-early-1641 arrival window bounds the 'gone from English records by c.1641' strand of the profile.
- Synthesizes Finding Occupation: a tailor by trade, a husbandman by economyThe occupation finding (a tailor by trade) is one strand of the shared matching-criteria profile.
- Synthesizes Finding First wife Mary (maiden name unknown), m. England by mid-1620s, d. Braintree 20 Sep 1661The first-wife-Mary finding is one strand of the shared matching-criteria profile.
- Synthesizes Finding Reconstructed family group: five children (Sarah, Mary, Richard, John Jr., Peter) + Isaac uncertain, all Mary'sThe reconstructed five-child roster is one strand of the shared matching-criteria profile.
- Synthesizes Finding Born c.1602-1610 (probably c.1603-08)The c.1602-1610 birth-window finding is one strand of the shared matching-criteria profile.
- Required by Analysis The elimination scaffold: structural grounds, not a blanket same-surname suspicionThe elimination scaffold has no content unless there is a profile to test candidates against.
- Synthesized by Finding Candidate landscape: 45 eliminated, 5 unlikely, Candidate B the sole survivor; probability model external-canonicalThe candidate-landscape outcome is the result of applying the matching-criteria profile.
Appears in
- John Gurney identity case file — States the shared matching-criteria profile (tailor; wife Mary; children Sarah/Mary/Richard/John/Peter; birth c.1600–1610; gone from English records by c.1641) any candidate must satisfy.
Technical details
- Evidence marker:
G13-PM-000073 - Primary research item:
G13-RI-000104 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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