These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Evidence
The Rybett/Ryvett family, St Martin at Palace, and the corrected Heydon connection
The Rybett or Ryvett family were Norfolk and Suffolk gentry, documented at Fritton in Norfolk and at Rishangles, Rattlesden, Stowmarket, and Bildeston in Suffolk. St Martin at Palace was their own Norwich parish, with Rivett entries running 1539–1603, so Margaret almost certainly married from her family's church. A reported marriage of Myrable Ryvett to Sir John Heydon is not borne out by the Visitation of Suffolk, which gives her husband as William Burd, Customer of London; the genuine Gurney–Heydon tie runs through Anne Heydon's marriage to William Gurney V. Francis Gurney was buried at St Botolph Bishopsgate, London, on 9 January 1646/7.
Related context
- Provides context for Finding A first marriage unknown to the compilers, opening a family of the emigrant's generationPlaces the bride's family and explains why the marriage was solemnised at St Martin at Palace.
- Provides context for Finding Margaret's Rivett kin at Garveston and Gressenhall, two to three miles from East DerehamDistinguishes the Suffolk Ryvett gentry from the mid-Norfolk Rivetts who are Margaret's actual kin.
Sources
- Gurney, Daniel. The Record of the House of Gournay, Part II. London: J. B. Nichols and J. G. Nichols, 1848., Part II (1848), Norfolk-line pedigree context for the Gurney–Heydon marriage
- Gurney, Daniel. Supplement to the Record of the House of Gournay. King's Lynn: Thew & Son, 1858., Supplement (1858), Note 132, William Gurney V and Anne Heydon
- FreeREG (parish register transcription project). freereg.org.uk., FreeREG transcriptions: St Martin at Palace, Norwich, Rivett/Rigett/Rivet entries 1539–1603; St Botolph Bishopsgate burial of Francis Gurney, 9 January 1646/7
- Parish register, St Martin at Palace, Norwich, 1538–1639. Norfolk Record Office, PD 12/1., Norfolk Record Office, PD 12/1, St Martin at Palace register, the Rybett family's parish
- Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. The Visitations of Suffolk: Made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612, with Notes and an Appendix of Additional Suffolk Pedigrees. Exeter: privately printed for the editor by William Pollard, 1882., Visitations of Suffolk (1882), Ryvett/Rivett pedigrees; p. 63 for Myrable Ryvett m. William Burd, Customer of London
Topic file location: Identity — Candidate B: Norfolk parentage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000153 - 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.