Hi friends and colleagues. I live in New Zealand - and have found the FOD History Trust Website invaluable - except that I have a brick wall relating to HENRY GURNEY (m 1799, d 1820 in Kempley), and several children baptised in Kempley or Dymock. No matter what I try on the website or MyHeritage I can uncover no other information for HENRY - hence seem unable to go further back.
I am going to been in the UK later this year (2019) and hope to visit FOD. But I want to make best use of my time there to try and demolish this brick wall. What advice can anyone give me about how to try and overcome this hurdle in researching the GURNEY line? Grateful any help

Assume you have gone through the Licences of GURNEY at Kempley - also checked for a Henry GURNEY being a witness at weddings etc to try and forum family groups

Just a few examples

William GURNEY was buried 1 June 1799 at Kempley (Ancestry has a copy of this Will - just reading it) ***

Under the Gloucestershire Marriage Bonds etc

When Anne GURNEY Licence to Robert POWELL - 18 November 1796 at Kempley
the Witness was : William GURNEY a Yeoman of Kempley

etc etc

At the actual marriage on 20 November 1796, when Anne GURNEY married Robert POWELL - Henry GURNEY was a witness

and on the 5 April 1804 when Betty GURNEY married Thomas DAVIS at Kempley - Henry GURNEY was a witness.

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22 August 1799

On which day appeared Personally Esther GURNEY and John GURNEY and is alleged that William GURNEY late of Kempley in the County and Diocese of Gloucester Yeoman lately died Intestate And that they are the said Esther GURNEY and John GURNEY were and are the natural and lawful Widow and Son and two of the next of Kin of the said deceased.

Henry - did name one of his daughter Esther.

When Anne GURNEY married Robert POWEL - 18 November 1796, and William GURNEY was the witness at the Licence - Robert POWEL was a Yeoman at Upton Bishop in the Diocese of Hereford.

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Forest of Dean records

Esther GURNEY aged 69 ** of the Parish of Kempley was buried at Upton Bishop, 9 June 1818

** circa 1749

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1841 Census Upton Bishops

POWELL

William - 45
Mary - 15
Charlotte - 9
William - 1

next door

Robert POWELL - 70 Ag Lab
Ann POWELL - 70

Think these POWELL's and GURNEY's are probably keeping 'land in the family'

as

William GURNEY husbandman of Kemply in Gloucester, married Hester POWELL - by Licence 7 July 1759

I have no idea what their source is, but a public tree on FamilySearch appears to have Henry being born in 1773.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:S515-ZGF

Assuming this is his Burial, as per the date given in the original post, from FoD PRs;

Record_ID: 144573
Entry_Number: 29
Year: 1820
Month: Nov
Day: 27
Surname: GURNEY
Forenames: Henry
Residence: Kempley Green
Age_at_death: 51
Officiating_Minister: Rich[ard] Brooke Curate
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P188 IN 1/18
Page_No: 4
Parish_Chapel: Kempley
Soundex: G650

So born abt 1869 ?

Which appears to fit the info in this prior thread, posted again to minimise current researchers revisiting old ground.
https://forest-of-dean.net/fodmembers/index.php?id=26017