Open question

Four records would settle Berkhamsted, and all four are offline pulls

Four named records would settle the Berkhamsted rows, and none is reachable from an index. The Great Berkhamsted burial register image for 28 June 1638, which normally gives 'son of', decides whether the younger John survives at all. A Mary Gurney baptism at Berkhamsted about 1620-24, or proof the register has a gap there, would answer the strongest objection against him. His own marriage, about 1622-23, in a neighbouring parish or through the south-Midlands archdeaconry licence series, would name his wife. And the Archdeaconry of St Albans probate series ASA/AR/8, covering 1610-1636 with a contemporary calendar of testators at Hertfordshire Archives, would establish the father-and-son split outright if the elder John's will names his children. The archdeaconry sits in the diocese of London rather than Lincoln, which governs where every licence, transcript and probate for these men is held.

Confidence: Moderate-high

Topic file location: Identity — Berkhamsted: Candidates C(i) and C(ii)