These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Analysis
The Norfolk-Hingham reception corridor fits a Norfolk origin
Adjacent Hingham is the reception corridor that fits a Norfolk origin. New England towns drew regionally concentrated cohorts, and Hingham's was overwhelmingly Norfolk - Daniel Cushing's list gives 206 who came from Norfolk and settled there 1633-1639, the 1638 Diligent alone bringing about 133 - out of Hingham, Wymondham, Attleborough, Great Ellingham, and the Dereham neighbourhood, the very parishes framing the Gurney Norfolk world, including Great Ellingham (Henry Gurney G15's seat), Hingham (the family's Gurney's Manor), and East Dereham (John's probable baptism parish). Weymouth itself was West-Country-led with a Buckinghamshire stream and no Norfolk feed, so a Norfolk John would be an outsider to Weymouth's founders but a natural fit for the Norfolk colony under ten miles away, across the town line his lots abut. A Norfolk arrival received through Hingham is thus the one reception model that suits the favoured origin; the origin case itself is held to the identity work.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Negative result No Gurney in the Hingham reception-corridor recordsThe Norfolk affinity is why the bare Hingham negative is still the corridor worth testing rather than a dead end.
- Qualifies Analysis Reception network is a weak lever for English originThe Hingham-Norfolk corridor is the one region where association is not merely a weak lever for origin.
Related context
- Context from Analysis Ann/Gilman as a Gurney instance on the Norfolk corridorA concrete Gurney-surname instance travelling the Hingham-Norfolk corridor contextualizes adjacent Hingham as a plausible reception corridor fitting a Norfolk origin, while the force of a second sibling remains conditional on unresolved sisterhood.
Sources
- History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts. 3 vols. Hingham: published by the town, 1893. Vol. 1 (history, incl. Daniel Cushing's settler list, pp. 201–203); vol. 2 (genealogies, English parishes of origin)., History of the Town of Hingham (1893), vol. 1 pp. 201-203 (Cushing's 206-from-Norfolk list) and vol. 2 (Diligent cohort parishes) - the parish overlap with the Gurney Norfolk orbit
- Thompson, Roger. Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994., Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England 1629-1640 - >2,000 documented departures from the Lincoln-Norfolk-Suffolk-Cambridge-Essex region in the 1630s (corridor-scale prior)
Topic file location: Origin — migration and reception network
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000091 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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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.