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Negative result

Negative: no Gurney emigrant in Coldham's English Adventurers & Emigrants 1609-1660

Ancestry's database of Coldham's English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 (High Court of Admiralty examinations) yields, on a surname-wildcard Gurn* sweep, only two hits - both the Bermuda headland 'Gurnard's Head' - and no Gurney person: no G13 John Gurney emigration record appears in this compilation.

Confidence: Moderate-high

Search scope

Searched: Ancestry.com - Peter Wilson Coldham, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 (HCA examinations), database id 49150 — English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660
Coverage window: 1609 to 1660
Search: Surname wildcard Gurn* across the full every-word index (authenticated, 2026-07-03), seeking any Gurney/Gurn-variant emigrant in the 1609-1660 window.
Results reviewed: 2
Limitations: The two Gurn* hits are both the Bermuda headland 'Gurnard's Head' (the ship Garland driven ashore, Oct 1619) - a place false friend, not a person.; Coldham's abstracts derive from the HCA examinations; a deponent recorded under a spelling outside the Gurn* wildcard would not be caught.; The compilation covers only persons who surfaced in Admiralty/King's Bench litigation; an ordinary passenger who never appeared in such a cause is out of its scope by construction.

Why this conclusion

Supports Finding Coverage: the online research-infrastructure beyond the core corpus adds no John Gurney recordThis documented database/index negative supports the synthesized coverage conclusion for the modern research infrastructure.

Sources

Peter Wilson Coldham, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609–1660: Abstracts of Legal Proceedings in the High Court of Admiralty and Court of King's Bench; database, Ancestry.com (database id 49150)., Ancestry database id 49150; surname wildcard Gurn*, searched 2026-07-03

Topic file location: Research-state source coverage

Also covered here

Negative result Negative: no Gurney transportee in Emigrants in Bondage 1614-1775 within the emigrant window
Negative result Negative: no window-era Gurney in Christ's Hospital child-apprentice emigrants

Technical details

Evidence marker: G13-PM-000030
Primary research item: G13-RI-000048
Graph revision: 244
Machine-readable JSON: /assets/g13-graph/marker-bundles/G13-PM-000030.json