These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Analysis
Analysis: the open program reconciled to the leads catalogue
The open research program for John Gurney reduces to a small set of standing questions — his English origin and parentage, his first wife Mary's identity and English marriage, and the untested Y-DNA discriminator — after the colonial record was worked to exhaustion at the printed and indexed level. The concrete record-location residuals are already homed in their own topics: the emigrant-record residual (Coldham's Complete Book of Emigrants and TNA E 157/20) in g13-research-source-coverage, the primary page behind the May 1645 Braintree petition, and the post-death Mendon proprietary stream. The operational record-pulls that would test these questions are maintained in the research-leads catalogue, which is the canonical de-duplicated index; this research-state topic surfaces only the work-in-progress subset not yet assimilated into the library, grouped by the question it serves.
Why this conclusion
- Synthesizes Open question Open question: untested Y-DNA discriminator (R1b-DF19)The reconciliation synthesizes the untested Y-DNA discriminator as a standing question of the open program.
- Synthesizes Open question Open question: John's English origin and parentage unidentifiedThe reconciliation synthesizes the origin-and-parentage question as the first standing question of the open program.
- Synthesizes Open question Open question: first wife Mary's identity and English marriageThe reconciliation synthesizes the first-wife identity/marriage question as a standing question of the open program.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualified by Negative result The London port-emigration lists and the livery-company registers, searched for John Gurney's crossing and trade, return no emigrant John Gurney. Hotten's Original Lists (behind them TNA E 157/20) hold no Gurney passenger in any spelling; a ROLLCO all-company livery sweep finds no East-Anglian Gurney apprentice, the sole provincial tailoring-Gurney being the eliminated Buckinghamshire Candidate-A family.The newly assimilated emigrant-list and livery-register negatives narrow the open research program by resolving part of the prior emigrant/trade residual without producing a positive identity or route.
Related context
- Provides context for Finding Coverage: the online research-infrastructure beyond the core corpus adds no John Gurney recordThe emigrant-record residual homed in g13-research-source-coverage is one of the record-location residuals the reconciliation places outside this topic; it contextualizes the origin strand of the open program.
Topic file location: Research-state open questions
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000057 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000057.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.