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Evidence
Bury St Mary burials 1653-56: a Bury 'John Gurney' buried 1653, not the Braintree emigrant
The Findmypast National Burial Index records three Gurney burials at St Mary, Bury St Edmunds, in a four-year window - John Gurney buried 11 December 1653, an unnamed Gurney 6 April 1655, and an unnamed Gurney noted 'Wife' 13 May 1656 - read as one continuing Bury Gurney household whose male head, John, was buried in 1653. That John cannot be the Braintree emigrant, who was alive in Massachusetts and died there in 1662/3.
Why this conclusion
- Supports Negative result Bury St Edmunds cleared as the emigrant's birthplace - no natal Gurney household in its registersThe St Mary burials are the other leg of the cleared-birthplace negative.
Sources
- National Burial Index for England & Wales (Findmypast). Three Gurney burials at St Mary, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: John Gurney 11 December 1653; [given name not transcribed] Gurney 6 April 1655; [given name not transcribed] Gurney 13 May 1656 (notes 'Wife'). Anglican denomination., St Mary, Bury St Edmunds (SRO FL 541/4): John Gurney bur. 11 Dec 1653; unnamed Gurney bur. 6 Apr 1655; unnamed Gurney ('Wife') bur. 13 May 1656
Appears in
- John Gurney identity case file — Continuing Bury Gurney household 1653-56 (John buried 1653); the Bury head was not the colonial John
Topic file location: Origin — Bury connections
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000095 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000095.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.