These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Negative result
Negative: no Gurney transportee in Emigrants in Bondage 1614-1775 within the emigrant window
Coldham's Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 on Ancestry records four Gurn-variant transportees, the earliest Mary Gurney (Middlesex, 1683); none falls in the 1614-1665 window, so the G13 emigrant was not a bonded or transported man under any variant.
Search scope
- Searched: Ancestry.com - Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775, database id 61074 — Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 (transported felons and bonded servants)
- Coverage window: 1614 to 1665
- Search: Surname wildcard Gurn* across the full collection (2026-07-03), filtered to the pre-1665 emigrant window relevant to a G13 crossing (c.1638-1641).
- Results reviewed: 4
- Limitations: Four Gurn-variant transportees appear across 1614-1775, the earliest Mary Gurney (Middlesex, Mar 1683); none falls in the 1614-1665 window.; The collection indexes only transported felons and bonded servants; a free emigrant is out of scope by construction - this bounds the 'not a bonded man' reading, not John's emigration generally.; A transportee under a spelling outside Gurn* would not be caught.
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, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614–1775 (transported felons and bonded servants); database, Ancestry.com (database id 61074)., Ancestry database id 61074; Gurn* wildcard, searched 2026-07-03
Topic file location: Research-state source coverage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000049 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000049.json
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.