These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Negative result
Negative: no Gurney emigrant in Coldham's English Adventurers & Emigrants 1609-1660
Ancestry's database of Coldham's English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 (High Court of Admiralty examinations) yields, on a surname-wildcard Gurn* sweep, only two hits - both the Bermuda headland 'Gurnard's Head' - and no Gurney person: no G13 John Gurney emigration record appears in this compilation.
Search scope
- Searched: Ancestry.com - Peter Wilson Coldham, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 (HCA examinations), database id 49150 — English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660
- Coverage window: 1609 to 1660
- Search: Surname wildcard Gurn* across the full every-word index (authenticated, 2026-07-03), seeking any Gurney/Gurn-variant emigrant in the 1609-1660 window.
- Results reviewed: 2
- Limitations: The two Gurn* hits are both the Bermuda headland 'Gurnard's Head' (the ship Garland driven ashore, Oct 1619) - a place false friend, not a person.; Coldham's abstracts derive from the HCA examinations; a deponent recorded under a spelling outside the Gurn* wildcard would not be caught.; The compilation covers only persons who surfaced in Admiralty/King's Bench litigation; an ordinary passenger who never appeared in such a cause is out of its scope by construction.
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding Coverage: the online research-infrastructure beyond the core corpus adds no John Gurney recordThis documented database/index negative supports the synthesized coverage conclusion for the modern research infrastructure.
Sources
- Peter Wilson Coldham, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609–1660: Abstracts of Legal Proceedings in the High Court of Admiralty and Court of King's Bench; database, Ancestry.com (database id 49150)., Ancestry database id 49150; surname wildcard Gurn*, searched 2026-07-03
Topic file location: Research-state source coverage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000048 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000048.json
This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.