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Negative result
Negative: no window-era Gurney in Christ's Hospital child-apprentice emigrants
Coldham's Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778 on Ancestry yields four Gurn-variant hits on a wildcard sweep, all eighteenth-century; none is a John and none falls in the emigrant window.
Search scope
- Searched: Ancestry.com - Peter Wilson Coldham, Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778, database id 49104 — Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778
- Coverage window: 1617 to 1665
- Search: Surname wildcard Gurn* across the collection (2026-07-03; hits user-verified in session), seeking any Gurney child apprentice bound to America in the emigrant window.
- Results reviewed: 4
- Limitations: All four Gurn* hits (Gurnell Mantle & Michael p.76; Gurney Ann & William p.67; Mary p.86; index p.147) are eighteenth-century; none is a John and none falls in the emigrant window.; The collection covers only Christ's Hospital children bound to America; it does not bear on an adult emigrant and is scoped narrowly.; A record under a spelling outside Gurn* would not be caught.
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, Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617–1778; database, Ancestry.com (database id 49104)., Ancestry database id 49104; Gurn* wildcard, searched/verified 2026-07-03
Topic file location: Research-state source coverage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000050 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000050.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.