These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Evidence
Banks (1937) p.151 attributes John Gurney to Bury St Edmunds on 'Banks Mss.' alone
Charles Edward Banks's Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650 (ed. Brownell, 1937), p. 151, enters 'GURNEY, John | Bury St. Edmunds | [no ship] | Braintree, Massachusetts | Banks Mss.' - attributing the Braintree emigrant's English origin to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on the authority of Banks's unpublished working notes alone, with no ship, register, will, or indenture cited. The same page sets him amid a genuine Bury St Edmunds emigrant cohort (Newgate, Clement Chaplin, William Knapp, John Goodrich, Henry Bright, William Townsend, Theodore Atkinson, Peyton Cooke, Samuel Wright), most of them documented from primary records.
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding Banks's Bury attribution is an unproven lead that most plausibly tracked Newgate's apprentice; consistent with a Norfolk originThe p.151 'Banks Mss.' entry is the datum the finding interprets.
Sources
- Banks, Charles Edward. Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620–1650. Ed. Elijah Ellsworth Brownell. Philadelphia: Bertram Press, 1937., p. 151, John Gurney entry ('Bury St. Edmunds ... Banks Mss.') and the surrounding Bury St Edmunds emigrant cohort
Appears in
- John Gurney identity case file — Banks, Topographical Dictionary p.151, places John at Bury St Edmunds, sourced to 'Banks Mss.' only
Topic file location: Origin — Bury connections
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000092 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000092.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.