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Evidence
Rye's two-Francis separation, anchored by the 1627 Parmentergate apprenticeship of James Gurney
Walter Rye first separated two contemporary Francis Gurneys: the West Barsham gentleman and Merchant Taylor, at East Dereham c.1608–1618 and St Benet Fink 1619–1637; and a Norwich plebeian laceweaver of St Peter Mountergate, later of St Giles Cripplegate 1638–1640, wife Mary, to whom the Costessey property belongs. The Norwich corporate registers separate them by simultaneous independent record: James Gurney, son of a Francis of St Peter Parmentergate — the laceweaver's parish — was bound apprentice at Michaelmas 1627 for seven years and admitted a freeman of Norwich on 8 January 1648, while Francis the Merchant Taylor was baptising children at St Benet Fink in London in the same year. The same registers carry no John Gurney freedom or enrolled apprenticeship anywhere in the emigrant window.
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding The parentage claim attaches to Francis the Merchant Taylor, not to the two same-named contemporariesSimultaneous independent records place the Merchant Taylor and the laceweaver in two cities in 1627.
Sources
- Millican, Percy, ed. The Register of the Freemen of Norwich, 1548-1713: A Transcript, with an Introduction, an Appendix to Those Freemen Whose Apprenticeship Indentures Are Enrolled in the City Records, and Indexes of Names and Places. Norwich: Jarrold & Sons, 1934., The Register of the Freemen of Norwich 1548–1713, f. 181a: James Gurney, son of Francis of St Peter Parmentergate, freeman 8 January 1648
- Rising, Winifred M., and Percy Millican. An Index of Indentures of Norwich Apprentices Enrolled with the Norwich Assembly, Henry VII-George II. Norfolk Record Society, vol. 29. Norwich: Norfolk Record Society, 1959., Index of Indentures of Norwich Apprentices, NRS vol. 29 (1959), indenture reference E. 17: James Gurney bound Michaelmas 1627 for seven years
- Rye, Walter. 'The Gurneys of Norwich.' The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany., Walter Rye, 'The Gurneys of Norwich,' Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany; corpus extract sources/corpus/norfolk-antiquarian-gurneys-of-norwich.md
Topic file location: Identity — Candidate B: Norfolk parentage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000163 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000163.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.