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Analysis
The 1636 Newgate 'John Gurney' apprentice is not the Braintree emigrant
The 21 July 1636 Newgate apprenticeship names a different John Gurney, not the Braintree emigrant. The apprentice was apparently born about September 1615; the Braintree John reported himself about fifty in 1652/3, pointing to c. 1602/3, and had married by the mid-1620s with a daughter born by c. 1628. A man born c. 1615 would have been about nine to thirteen during that family period. This is a chronological incompatibility, not a claim that an early end to the apprentice's term constrained the emigrant's arrival.
Date: 21 July 1636
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding John's tailoring learned off the enrolled books (informal/country training)That the one enrolled 'John Gurney' apprenticeship (1636 Newgate) is not the emigrant's reinforces that no enrolled record of his own training survives.
- Supported by Finding First wife Mary (maiden name unknown), m. England by mid-1620s, d. Braintree 20 Sep 1661The first-wife and daughter chronology makes a c. 1615 apprentice too young to be the Braintree father.
- Synthesized by Analysis The elimination scaffold: structural grounds, not a blanket same-surname suspicionThe Newgate apprentice de-conflation is an in-graph precedent applying the same family-status-and-chronology elimination standard.
- Supported by Evidence 1652/3 'aged 50' depositionThe 1652/3 deposition age establishes the older Braintree John's approximate birth year for the de-conflation.
- Required by Finding Banks's Bury attribution is an unproven lead that most plausibly tracked Newgate's apprentice; consistent with a Norfolk originThe finding rests on the identity work's de-conflation of the 1636 Newgate apprentice from the Braintree emigrant (trade-and-training G13-RI-000075).
- Required by Analysis The 1615/Southwark tradition belongs to Newgate's apprentice, not the emigrantRests on the identity work's de-conflation of the 1636 Newgate apprentice from the Braintree emigrant (trade-and-training).
- Required by Analysis Anderson's "Boston" settlement attribution reads as a conflation with the 1636 Newgate apprenticeThe conflation reading depends on the 1636 Newgate apprentice being a distinct, younger man.
Sources
- "Notes: Braintree, Mass., Items." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 62 (January 1908), p. 94., vol. 62 (1908), p. 94; 17 March 1652/3 Wilson v. Faxon deposition
- Shedd, Frank Edson, Hubert C. Shedd, and J. Gardner Bartlett. Daniel Shed Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920. Boston: Shedd Family Association, 1920., Mary Gurney's 1647 marriage to Daniel Shed; child born by c. 1628
- Winthrop, John. The History of New England from 1630 to 1649. Edited by James Savage. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. Addenda, p. 422, 21 July 1636 John Newgate / John Gurney apprentice entry., Winthrop, History of New England, ed. Savage, vol.2 (1853), Addenda p.422; 21 July 1636 John Newgate / John Gurney apprentice order (service to age 24, three years from following 29 September)
Technical details
- Evidence marker:
G13-PM-000047 - Primary research item:
G13-RI-000075 - Graph revision:
381 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/marker-bundles/G13-PM-000047.json