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Evidence
Ann Gurney x John Gilman, Hingham Norfolk 1626
Ann Gurney married John Gilman, a worsted weaver, at Hingham, Norfolk, on 1 October 1626; the couple's children were baptised at West Dereham and Hingham, Ann was buried at Hingham on 23 November 1651, and their son John Gilman Jr. later emigrated to Exeter, New Hampshire. West Dereham, in western Norfolk near Downham Market, lies about twenty miles from the East Dereham parish of Francis Gurney's children.
Date: 1 October 1626 (marriage) - 23 November 1651 (burial)
Why this conclusion
- Required by Open question Was Ann Gurney (Gilman) John's sister?The sisterhood question is built on the documented Gilman-Gurney marriage and family record.
Sources
- Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769–1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963., pp. 155-160: Gilman family - John Gilman worsted weaver, children baptised West Dereham and Hingham, and John Gilman Jr.'s emigration to Exeter, New Hampshire.
- Parish register, Hingham, Norfolk., Hingham, Norfolk, parish register: marriage of Ann Gurney and John Gilman, 1 October 1626; burial of Ann Gurney (Gilman), 23 November 1651 (Norfolk Record Office; accessed via Ancestry).
Appears in
- John Gurney identity case file — The Ann Gurney x John Gilman marriage record and Gilman family sequence (case file section 7).
Topic file location: Origin — migration and reception network
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000189 - 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.