Richard Gourney

1524 - Abt 1597  (73 years)

• Name	Richard Gourney
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Birth	1524  [1]
  Occupation	Haberdasher  [1]
  Will	15 Oct 1596  [2]
  Death	Abt Mar 1597	London   [2]
  Burial	[J] 20 Mar 1597	St Michael, Crooked Lane, City of London, England   [3]
  Probate	8 Apr 1597  [2]
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2021

  
  

  Wife	Agnes Johnson           b. Between 1530 and 1547
  Marriage	[J] 30 Jan 1564	St Laurence Pountney, City of London, England   [4]
  Age at Marriage	Richard was ~ 40 years old - Agnes was ~ 34 years old.
  Children	1. Mary Gourney           b. Abt 1575             d. Abt Dec 1617 (Age ~ 42 years)
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Early Life Richard Gourney was born in 15246; his father was Thomas Gurney but his mother's name is not known. Career It's not entirely clear if Richard was a Sheriff of London, or an Alderman, or both. Both Wikipedia1 and TRHG4 list him as a sheriff, in 1590 (and a grandson, perhaps, as sheriff in 16345 - though Stirnet - and I agree - believes this Richard was entirely unrelated). British History Online2 lists Richard Gurney (senior) as a Sheriff in 1590. Boyd's entry for Richard has: Cit[izen] Haberdasher; Alderman 1589-1597 Family Life Richard married Agnes Johnson on the 30th of March 1563/4 at St Laurence Pountney in London. There is a little bit of confusion about her name: Boyd's6 lists her as Anne, daughter of Richard of Hempstead in Essex, b. 1550, died 1 Aug 1612 TRHG4 lists her as Jane, daughter of Richard of Hempstead in Essex, died in 1612 and buried at St Bryde's church The actual marriage record from St Laurence Poutney shows that a Richard Gurney married an Agnes Johnson on the 30th of January 1563/4 Richard's own will refers to his wife as Anne I think the names Agnes, Anne and Jane are sufficiently close that these could all be the same person. Wikipedia suggests that Agnes was pronounced 'Annis' in the Middle Ages, so this can explain the Anne/Agnes split. And Jane may have been a misreading of Anne in some original document. They had nine children: Thomas who married Mary Caldwell Mary, who married SirHenry Lee Anne, who married Richard Edwards Jane, who married John Winch Joyce?, who married Laurence Wetherall Priscilla, who married Richard Collet Sybil, who married first Humphrey Wemmes? and secondly Edmund Stapleton Bethsheba, who married Israel? Owen Frances, who married Hugh Brawn Death Richard died in on the 5 of March 1597; TRHG4 states that he was buried at St Michael's in Crooked Lane on the 21st of March 1596, but is probably using the Julian calendar (given that his will is dated October 1596). There is a burial record for Richard Gourney on Ancestry that is incorrectly keyed in as 20 May 1596 but is actually 20 March 1596 (Julian, or 20 March 1597 Gregorian) Richard's will mentions: Wife Anne Daughter Bethsheba, wife of Israel? Owen Daughter Sybil, wife of Humphrey Wemmes Daughter Francis, wife of Hugh Daughter Jane, wife of John Wynch Son Thomas, daughter Anne and daughter Mary (none of whom were married at the time of his will) Footnotes [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sheriffs_of_London [2] https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-aldermen/hen3-1912/pp33-44 [3] https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/new-history-london/pp889-893 [4] The Record of the House of Gournay, Part II, page 498, available at Google Books [5] The Visitation of London 1633-1635 (vol. 1, p. 336) shows this latter Richard, als Richard Gurnard, as the son of Brian Gurney and Magdalen Hewet [6] Boyd's Inhabitants of London - Richard Gurney of St Michael Crooked Lane

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - [J] 30 Jan 1564 - St Laurence Pountney, City of London, England Death - Abt Mar 1597 - London  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S0321] FindMyPast, Boyd's Inhabitants Of London & Family Units 1200-1946, (findmypast.co.uk), Richard Gurney. [S0143] Ancestry, England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, (ancestry.co.uk), 8 Apr 1597, Richard Gourney; The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 89. [S0133] Ancestry, London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, (ancestry.co.uk), 20 May 1596, Richard Gourney; London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P69/MIC3/A/001/MS11367. [S0133] Ancestry, London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, (ancestry.co.uk), 30 Jan 1563, Gurney / Johnson; London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P69/LAW2/A/001/MS07670.