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Analysis
Reception network is a weak lever for English origin
The reception network fixes the mode of John's settlement but not his English origin: his documented colonial associates and landlords span Buckinghamshire, the West Country, Essex, Warwickshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk with no single stream claiming him, so association is strong enough to show he entered an existing community yet too diffuse to name the corridor that carried him — the English-origin corridor question is therefore held to the identity work, not resolved from the migration record.
Date: 1638–1663 (span of documented colonial associations)
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Finding Reception into an established Weymouth community, not a shared voyageThe reception network fixes the mode of settlement but not the English origin; the corridor question is held to the identity work.
- Qualified by Analysis The Norfolk-Hingham reception corridor fits a Norfolk originThe Hingham-Norfolk corridor is the one region where association is not merely a weak lever for origin.
Sources
- John Venn and J. A. Venn (comps.), Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954); consulted via the online ACAD database (A Cambridge Alumni Database)., Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, JENNER/GINNER Thomas: of Fordham, Essex; Weymouth minister 1636-40; later Coltishall, Norfolk 1652-58 - an eastern-counties figure who passed near, not through, John's Norfolk corridor
Topic file location: Origin — migration and reception network
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000079 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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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.