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Evidence
Entry E, East Dereham image 00715: "John the sonne of ffrancis Gurnie," c.1609/10
Entry E of the East Dereham register, on image 00715, was indexed by Findmypast and FreeREG as "John the sonne of Nicholas Gorne." Read under magnification against four confirmed "ffrancis Gurnie/Gurny" entries in the same register and the same hand, it reads instead as "John the sonne of ffrancis Gurnie," about 1609/10. Four independent letterform tests — the initial stroke cluster, the mid-body structure, the word segmentation, and the terminal formation — favour "ffrancis"; none favours "Nicholas."
Date: c.1609/10 (±2 years)
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding Entry E is probably John Gurney-1's baptismEntry E as re-read is the record the finding interprets.
Sources
- Parish register, East Dereham, Norfolk. Norfolk Record Office, PD 86/41 (microfilm, 69 images)., Norfolk Record Office, PD 86/41, East Dereham register, image 00715, Entry E
John the sonne of ffrancis Gurnie
Topic file location: Identity — Candidate B: Norfolk parentage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000156 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000156.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.