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Evidence
1633 Heralds' Visitation: Francis attests Roger as his "eldest sonne"
In the 1633 Heralds' Visitation of London, Francis Gurnay attested his own pedigree and children and named Roger as his "eldest sonne." Roger was baptised at St Benet Fink in December 1621. Taken as written, the attestation leaves no room for an older son, and it is the sharpest documentary objection to the Candidate B parentage.
Date: 1633
Qualifications and conflicts
- Conflicts with Identity hypothesis Candidate B: John was probably the son of Francis Gurney and Margaret RybettFrancis's own 1633 attestation names Roger, born 1621, as his eldest son.
- Qualified by Finding The recorded child lists are not closed; the "eldest sonne" attestation does not exclude an older sonThe compilers' own child lists are fragmentary and neither knew of the 1611 marriage, so the attestation is not an exhaustive list.
Sources
- Gurney, Daniel. The Record of the House of Gournay, Part III. London: J. B. Nichols and J. G. Nichols, 1848., Part III (1848), p. 524, transcription of the visitation entry
- Heralds' Visitation of London, 1633. College of Arms, London., College of Arms, Heralds' Visitation of London 1633, Francis Gurnay pedigree and children
Topic file location: Identity — Candidate B: Norfolk parentage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000160 - 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.