Finding

The wider sweep leaves no survivor: single-attestation households are held, not cleared

None of the households in the wider same-name sweep reproduces the colonial John's full family signature, and the naming-pattern check cuts both ways: no Gurney child anywhere in the sweep is named Francis, which remains a real argument against Candidate B without being dispositive on its own. What the sweep does not do is leave one survivor, for two reasons that pull the same way. A single indexed event is not a hard elimination - one record cannot rule out an unrecorded emigration the way a continuing English record can - so single-attestation households are held at a low residual rather than cleared. And counting households is not counting men: the enumeration counts households as reconstructed, and every household tested for that defect has turned out to be more than one man. Taken together with the named candidates, the Earsham will and this sweep account for the other same-name English households the record searches have surfaced, but accounting for them is not the same as identifying the emigrant.

Confidence: Moderate-high

Topic file location: Identity — Other Eliminations and Earsham