Finding

Earsham testator and his minor son are both the wrong generation to be the emigrant

The Earsham testator died in 1638 and his son John was still a minor at that date (born after about 1624), so neither man is the Massachusetts emigrant, who was already at Weymouth by June 1641 and had married his own wife Mary well before 1628. What the will documents instead is a previously unlogged Waveney-valley Gurney yeoman family, distinctive enough -- the rare brother's forename, a dead brother's four named sons -- to recognize and set aside wherever it resurfaces. This family's own further history, traced forward through a 1710 Bungay nuncupative will, a 1690s Bungay merchant's will naming Sarah Gurney's children, and an eighteenth-century Earsham manorial court book, is carried on its own dedicated subject file rather than in this graph.

Confidence: High

Topic file location: Identity — Other Eliminations and Earsham