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Finding
The senior West Barsham branch in the East Dereham orbit, 1636–1641
The senior West Barsham branch — under Candidate B, John's uncle's and cousins' household — was present in the East Dereham neighbourhood across exactly the years in question. Edward Gournay's sister Elizabeth kept house at East Bilney, five miles from East Dereham, from before December 1636; and when Edward died on 6 August 1641 his inquisition post mortem was taken at East Dereham on 13 October 1641. This does not name John or connect him to the branch. What it removes is the objection that a Gurney child baptised at East Dereham in 1609/10 would be a stranger to the parish.
Why this conclusion
- Supports Identity hypothesis Candidate B: John was probably the son of Francis Gurney and Margaret RybettRemoves the objection that a Gurney child at East Dereham would be a stranger to the parish.
- Supported by Evidence Frances Hovell as Edward Gournay's widow, and "Cozen Gurney" in Mary Goodwin's 1647 willFixes the branch's terminal generation and its kin acknowledged in 1647.
- Supported by Evidence Elizabeth (Gournay) Crowe of East Bilney, sister of the West Barsham heir, married before 20 Dec 1636A senior-branch sister keeping house five miles from East Dereham before December 1636.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Review required by Open question Open: Bozoune Crowe's PCC will (PROB 11/289/177) is unimaged and may name Gournay kinThe unimaged Crowe will could convert the East Bilney geography into a stated kinship.
Sources
- Blomefield, Francis. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. 11 vols. London, 1805–1810., vol. vii, 'West Barsham,' pp. 42–47, quoting the inquisition 'taken at East-Dereham, October 13th in the 17th of Charles I'
- Joseph James Muskett, Suffolk Manorial Families, being the County Visitations and other Pedigrees, vol. 2 (Exeter: William Pollard & Co., 1900)., vol. 2 (1900), p. 176: Elizabeth (Gournay) Crowe at East Bilney, Launditch hundred
Topic file location: Identity — Candidate B: Norfolk parentage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000168 - 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.