These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Analysis
A weak lever for John's origin; the connection is held to the identity work
For John Gurney's own origin the wardship-and-patronage network is a weak lever: it establishes that the senior West Barsham branch stood within the founders' circle but does not connect John to that branch, name him in these records, or trace a crossing through the Winthrop channel — 'yong mr. gurney' is Edward the heir, not John. Whether John belongs to that family, and whether he emigrated inside its network rather than in the West-Country Weymouth stream he is actually found among, is the identity question, held to the John Gurney identity case file and the origin candidate files.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Finding The senior West Barsham branch inside the founders' Court-of-Wards network, 1623–1641The network is context around the senior branch, not a connection to John; the origin question is held to the identity work.
Topic file location: Origin — wardship and patronage network
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000084 - 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.