These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Analysis
The 1636 Newgate 'John Gurney' apprentice is not the Braintree emigrant
The single enrolled apprenticeship of a 'John Gurney' anywhere in the New England record - the 21 July 1636 Boston-court order binding John Gurney, a runaway apprentice, to the feltmaker John Newgate until age 24 - belongs to a younger man than the Braintree emigrant: it implies a birth about 1615, against the emigrant's 1652/3 deposition age of 'about 50' (birth c.1602/3), and Newgate's own later records name no Gurney. De-conflated from John of Braintree in the identity work and carried here only for its trade bearing, it documents that other man's service, so no enrolled record of John of Braintree's own trade training survives even in the colony that received him.
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding John's tailoring learned off the enrolled books (informal/country training)That the one enrolled 'John Gurney' apprenticeship (1636 Newgate) is not the emigrant's reinforces that no enrolled record of his own training survives.
- Synthesized by Analysis The elimination scaffold: structural grounds, not a blanket same-surname suspicionThe Newgate apprentice de-conflation is an in-graph precedent applying the same family-status-and-chronology elimination standard.
- Required by Finding Banks's Bury attribution is an unproven lead that most plausibly tracked Newgate's apprentice; consistent with a Norfolk originThe finding rests on the identity work's de-conflation of the 1636 Newgate apprentice from the Braintree emigrant (trade-and-training G13-RI-000075).
- Required by Analysis The 1615/Southwark tradition belongs to Newgate's apprentice, not the emigrantRests on the identity work's de-conflation of the 1636 Newgate apprentice from the Braintree emigrant (trade-and-training).
- Required by Analysis Anderson's "Boston" settlement attribution reads as a conflation with the 1636 Newgate apprenticeThe conflation reading depends on the 1636 Newgate apprentice being a distinct, younger man.
Sources
- Winthrop, John. The History of New England from 1630 to 1649. Edited by James Savage. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. Addenda, p. 422, 21 July 1636 John Newgate / John Gurney apprentice entry., Winthrop, History of New England, ed. Savage, vol.2 (1853), Addenda p.422; 21 July 1636 John Newgate / John Gurney apprentice order (service to age 24, three years from following 29 September)
Topic file location: Origin — trade and training
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000075 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000075.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.