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This page expands an Evidence link in Identity — Other Eliminations and Earsham: the findings, sources, and qualifications behind the marked passage.
Evidence
Fourteen further Norfolk John-Gurney baptisms across six parishes, 1623-1643, none matching the full child set
A Findmypast UK Parish Baptisms search restricted to Norfolk, surname Gurney, father John, 1623-1643, returns fourteen further baptisms across six parishes: Denton (John + Rachell, children Mary 1638, Thomas 1639, Sarah 1644), Hempnall (Anna 1640, Elizabeth 1641), Stanfield (Mary 1634), Norwich St Margaret & St Swithin (a 1630 child), North Runcton (Beniamin 1625, Frances 1628), and Earsham (John + Elizabeth Singler). None of these six households reproduces the colonial John's full, distinctive child set -- Sarah, Mary, Richard, John Jr., and Peter -- by name and date, but the density is consistent with Norfolk having been a Gurney heartland with several parish-level Johns active in the same decade.
Why this conclusion
- Synthesized by Finding Other named households and the wider sweep hold ~8% combined residual; Candidate B remains the sole survivorThe Norfolk density survey is part of the same clearing exercise.
Sources
- Findmypast UK Parish Baptisms aggregated dataset within Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish Records., Norfolk-restricted search, surname Gurney, father John, 1623-1643
- England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. FamilySearch indexed records., Mary Gurney, Denton, baptized 12 August 1638 (FS ID NNDF-V9K)
- England, Marriages, 1538-1973. FamilySearch indexed records., Robert Gvrney m. Mary Lame, 27 July 1622, Norwich (children Samuel bp.1623 St Stephen, Katherine bp.1639 St Benedict) - a Norfolk same-name household with a wife Mary, not the emigrant
Topic file location: Identity — Other Eliminations and Earsham
Also covered here
Technical details
- Evidence marker:
G13-PM-000081 - Primary research item:
G13-RI-000117 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/marker-bundles/G13-PM-000081.json