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Analysis
Isaac (c. 1643) most plausibly John-1's son, by elimination (moderate)
The young Isacke Gurney of the 1663/4–1667 colonial court records is most plausibly John Gurney-1's son: no record states his parentage, but an Isaac born c. 1643 needs a father of John's generation, and the only other regional Gurney male, Richard (G12, b. c. 1630–34), was himself a child in 1643 — a moderate identification the dedicated subject file still holds cautiously as a distinct person.
Date: born c. 1643, probably in Massachusetts
Why this conclusion
- Supported by Evidence Isacke Gurney court cluster: Scituate 1663/4; Suffolk file 792, 1667The court records establish the person Isacke Gurney but state no parentage, so their bearing on the identification is indirect.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Finding Reconstructed family group: five children (Sarah, Mary, Richard, John Jr., Peter) + Isaac uncertain, all Mary'sIsaac is the uncertain sixth member; the by-elimination identification qualifies the roster's completeness.
Appears in
- John Gurney fact sheet — Isaac Gurney (c. 1643, uncertain): surfaces in 1666–67 Middlesex/Suffolk court records; almost certainly this family's Isaac though no record states parentage.
Topic file location: Family — the children as a family group
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000067 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000067.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.