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Finding
The recorded child lists are not closed; the "eldest sonne" attestation does not exclude an older son
Francis Gurney's recorded child list is demonstrably incomplete, so the 1633 "eldest sonne" attestation does not exclude an older son of the first marriage. Daniel Gurney called Dorothy the eldest child "mentioned in" the St Benet Fink register, judged Roger likely to have died young, and added beyond the register a son John of Maldon whom Francis "seems" to have had and a George who was "probably another son." Bernau warned outright that no complete record of the children of Francis and Anne Browning survives. Neither compiler knew of the 1611 marriage, and a visitation recorded the children a man presented, not all who existed.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Evidence 1633 Heralds' Visitation: Francis attests Roger as his "eldest sonne"The compilers' own child lists are fragmentary and neither knew of the 1611 marriage, so the attestation is not an exhaustive list.
Sources
- Bernau, Charles A. "Unrecorded Biographies: Francis Gournay (or Gurney), of Maldon, Essex." The British Archivist, vol. I, no. 7, September 1913, pp. 49 ff., vol. I, no. 7 (September 1913), 'His Parents' Children': no complete record of the children of Francis Gournay and Anne Browning survives
- Gurney, Daniel. The Record of the House of Gournay, Part III. London: J. B. Nichols and J. G. Nichols, 1848., Part III (1848), p. 525: a son John of Maldon Francis 'seems' to have had; George 'probably another son'
- Gurney, Daniel. Supplement to the Record of the House of Gournay. King's Lynn: Thew & Son, 1858., Supplement (1858), Note 181, p. 1056: Dorothy 'mentioned in the parish register of St. Benet Fink'; Roger 'probably died young'
Topic file location: Identity — Candidate B: Norfolk parentage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000161 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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