These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Open question
Open: parish-register image pull, burial search, and the Mary Barton/Burton tradition-provenance test
Three lines of work could move the Ackworth estimate in either direction: a West Yorkshire Archives or Borthwick Institute image pull of the 1636-1637 Ackworth register, to recover the 1637 baptism's parents and confirm the marriage spelling and any further children; an Ackworth burial-register search for either spouse (not yet indexed by Findmypast); and tracing the earliest compiled-genealogy occurrence of the 'Mary Barton/Burton' tradition. If that tradition predates the availability of modern indexes, it is independent evidence pointing at Ackworth and the estimate should rise; if it first appears only after IGI-era derivative trees became available, it is circular and the estimate should hold.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Analysis Ackworth held at a residual ~3%: the only wife-name match, capped by naming and corridor mismatchesThese open items are what could move the residual estimate away from its current ~3% reading in either direction.
Topic file location: Identity — Ackworth, Yorkshire
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000113 - 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.