Discussion written for the Pincombe Newsletter

 Wrote the discussion on John Pincomb who married Grace Manning in 1725 at Bishops Nympton with the view of a winter wonderland outside my window. Love the snow; going south is fun in mid-winter just for a break but overall I love living in a country which is covered with snow half of the year. It is so refreshing to look out on the fresh white snow and since my window faces the backyard I can see that white fresh snow most of the winter as it slowly climbs up the fence around the yard. Usually a metre standing (or more) by the end of the winter. 

I will take a break for a bit from writing and work on finishing Chromosome 13 and then on to Chromosome 12. I am nearing the half-way point in the chromosomes with the longest ones ahead of me for sure but also I have more long matches as I work my way backwards. Perhaps one of these days my 2nd cousins Buller will test where I can see their results and I will have more support for any theories that I develop from results of people that I do not know but have family information in their records making it easier for me to place them in family lines. Having five siblings tested though does make a big difference especially the four of us who tested at 23 and Me. 

The last day of November and I have completed all of my Microsoft Solitaire card games once again I have a complete set of games from 2012 to the present. I do love playing Microsoft Solitaire first thing in the morning I can feel it waking up my brain cells. Exercise for the brain before it begins the day's work.

Today I shall spend a little time thinking about the Autism and Behaviour courses at Algonquin College. They are a practical look at how to work with children using the ABA methodology. This has worked so well with my grandson but now that he is seven we need to ensure that we are following the method 24/7 which my daughter and her husband are doing but I am mixed in now so must also ensure that I too am following the approved methodology as well and that I understand what I am doing so that I can be of more support to them. We made books the other day and I think that that is something that I am skilled at so can help him to work with that. I found two sticker books on subjects that he likes so would like to work with him making story books with those stickers. The other day was the beginning of that process. 

Other than that my schedule of running for 40 minutes, then out with the dogs for a 40 to 45 minute walk around the yard with lots of trees to occupy me and picking up after the dogs as well. Then in the afternoon my calisthenics and I need to work in my weight lifting as that doesn't get done these days very often. In the evening a walk around the basement while talking to my other daughter for our daily one hour chat. The day does pass quickly and I can generally manage 16000 to 20000 steps per day.

Snow on the ground

 Just a little snow on the ground; an appetizer for what is to come for sure. Since I have Worry Free cleaning the laneway I am not overly concerned at how much snow this year and they will also clear the walks making life so much easier for this 76 year old. All that is left to do is to clear the car and I only go out a couple of days a week so will not likely rush at that task either. 

Working on Chromosome 13 and I still do not like the last little bit of it. I have matches that almost reach to the end but not quite there is one last portion following a crossover where I am not entirely sure of the changes other than we all continue to half match each other after a full match where we are matching a known third cousin. Since that match ends just before the crossover I do not have a helper with this one. I may just leave it unfinished with the idea that once I have a match that helps me I will fill it in. It actually is not that long so not glaring on the eye when you see the omission! Besides I am 76 and the need to be absolutely perfect is dimming somewhat - nearly perfect works. 

I need to check all the matches to see that they have been put into DNA Painter and that I have not missed anything then on to Chromosome 12. Perhaps I will finish this task this year which will make it just under two years since I started the task. 

I will also start work on the Pincombe Newsletter. This is the start of a new volume and amazingly I am now at Volume 7. The Discussion point has already been selected - Who was the John Pincomb married to Grace Manning and what is known about that John Pincomb? The spelling of the name intrigued me for a bit until I remembered my mother saying that her Pincombe family had used the Pincomb spelling in England and that was true of the Bishop Nympton registers from the first mention of the Pincomb surname. Eventually I will look once again at the yDNA study for the Pincombe-Pinkham members and have a discussion perhaps the last issue of Volume 7 giving it another year to see if any new members join. 

Other than that I sent in a request for information to Algonquin College with respect to the Certified Autism Specialist course. I am now noting that there are ten weeks of placement (Monday to Friday, full days) broken into four weeks and six weeks. I have to consider whether at 76 years of age I am up to that sort of work load but perhaps they will let me audit the courses that are online so that I can at least glean that knowledge base as I move forward with this idea of being a help to my grandson as he moves through his life. Whenever the way is a lot of work I reminded my children and now my grandchildren that Marie Curie recrystalized radium 453 times to 0.17 g radium chloride (RaCl2) at 94% purity (the final product contains only 0.01 g of BaCl2 ). It was at great hazard to her in the long run unfortunately which I have not mentioned yet. Good things in research happening most often takes a lot of work. Even in my day science labs did not offer the protections that they have now but were better than in the days of Peter and Marie Curie. We visited the undergraduate labs at Western maybe six or seven years ago now I would have to look that up and the work is all done in fume hoods now rather than bench work that we did. There are extra precautions for radioactive material (which also existed in my days in the lab). Pure science though is still the most fascinating of all research I think but then I did study Chemistry (three years of Honours Chemistry) although I would have had to repeat my third year organic chemistry to go into fourth year Honours Chemistry so elected to take the pass degree by taking French and surprisingly a history course (next to science I loved history and especially ancient history which included an interest in my own surnames which extended far back into the past I had discovered)) to have the necessary credits although in total I had more than enough credits in science. I think there is a pass degree now in the sciences. I did consider repeating my third year Honours Organic Chemistry but decided at 20 that I would really like to work for a bit and did do some COBOL training courses that were most interesting and led to interesting jobs. Edward was working on his PhD in Chemistry and then a postdoc so the salary I was earning let us buy a house, travel a bit and do extra things. Any regrets, not really, I enjoyed my lab work and computer work over the next few years after we married before our first child arrived. I did look into doing my masters in Ottawa (and was accepted) but decided that it would not give me enough time with my little ones. So I did proofreading and copyediting for local printers in Ottawa at home for the next fifteen years which was most interesting and included the NRC journals - physics, environmental sciences and chemistry. One makes choices and I made what was the best choice for me at the time (my health was not strong and I felt that I needed to be with my children as much as possible when they were small).

Advent Sunday

We bought a large brass ring with four candle fixtures to put candles in for our Advent Candle (it was sold as an Advent Candle holder) back in 1976 when our oldest child was quite young. We had gone to Church and the Advent Candle was lit and she wanted to do that at home and so through the years when our children were young and into their teen years we held our own Advent Candle Service throughout Advent Sunday afternoon including several hymns. We had a Jesse Tree as well for which we had made cloth symbols which we put on during our Advent Sunday service and every day during the weeks before Christmas. We were still going to Church as a family in the morning as well but our own little service had great meaning for us. 

I watched Advent Sunday I on the You-Tube although not at the actual time as we were heading back from the cottage as my daughter was going to do half of an ER rotation which had not been picked up by anyone so had to be back early. I am so very happy that Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa (my home church) has kept on with the You-Tube Service. 

A few changes have evolved over the past few days. I have decided that we will do a Celebration of Life for Edward on the anniversary of his death (April 10 2022 which does happen to be a Sunday). I need to investigate whether this is possible with the Dean at the Cathedral. I am also investigating having him interred in the Columbarium at the Cathedral. From the time that my Church first decided to create the Columbarium I have been interested in it as my burial site although Edward was interested in Beechwood. He said in his will that he would add a page which would include his burial wishes but he did not do so. Even after several meetings with Beechwood he did not commit to the proposed burial material that they had prepared. However, my daughters would still need to agree with me so no firm intention on that yet. 

As well I am investigating taking a course at Algonquin  College - Certified Autism Specialist. I have given it quite a bit of thought and feel that I can be of help to my grandson so that he doesn't lose quite so much time at school as he moves on into the higher grades. It is a one year online course (can be taken part time) and the prerequisite is of course a High School Diploma. I have also mentioned my University degree with majors in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. I also took a course at St Pauls University, Ottawa which would be more applicable to this course namely Group Therapy - the exact title I need to look up - which I took in 2002-2003. I found it very meaningful for two reasons - one, I was in group therapy sessions when I was on the psychiatric ward at Victoria Hospital, in London, Ontario and two, as the cause of my breakdown emerged when my memory returned I experienced a number of flashbacks and until I took this course I did not totally understand what had happened to me. As we worked through the reasons for Group Therapy and how to conduct sessions I realized that what I had experienced and learned during my time on the Psychiatric Ward helped me as I worked my way through the flashbacks on items that had occurred years earlier. My diagnosis at the time of Multiple Sclerosis still stands likely although I find it hard to believe that I would have Multiple Sclerosis given the state of my health at this age of 76 years. 

I have been busy working away on my research but I feel that this new direction will help me to move ahead with my life.

 

 

At the cottage

 Weekend at the cottage again and it is so relaxing. Seeing the fog on the lake first thing in the morning and listening and watching the blue jays flitting about from tree to tree. Walking in the woods is very refreshing and the dogs are also loving the cooler weather. Slight  dusting of snow completes the picture.

A few games of Sudoku to play and still doing the hard ones - about twenty left to do and then on to the medium ones and then the easy. My grandfather always used to say do the most difficult problem first in life and then the others will be easier. I used that axiom a lot in my life to be sure. Others do the easiest first and then have lots of time for the difficult ones. All in how you are comfortable doing the work that needs to be done. 

Rainy season has arrived so just waiting for the thermometer to dip and bring us snowy winter! We are luckier with our rainy season actually to have snow I think. 

Busy day cleaning

 I had a busy day cleaning yesterday but all done now. I actually enjoy cleaning including scrubbing floors on my hands and knees. It keeps the bones and muscles flexible I think although it is hard work. I can see why our ancestors who did survive to a good age did do so with all the good exercise that they got caring for themselves.

Black Friday permeates our society once again. This American tradition has traveled around the world. One trip that we took to Branson for their music festival brought us back to our crossing into Canada in Michigan on American Thanksgiving Thursday the day before Black Friday. The hotel we were staying at was full of people who had come into the city to enjoy Black Friday. Even now it amazes me to have seen so many people waiting for the stores to open (we were up early for our trip to the crossing back into Canada). 

Off email now until Sunday. The bandwidth at the cottage is limited and I like to leave it to the others and enjoy Mother Nature. 

Chromosome 14 completed

 Chromosome 14 is completed and with a number of good third cousin and one half second cousin matches I am quite happy with the results. In this case looking at the numerical values solves a small zero match glitch that shows up visually. 

Chromosome 13 has an amazing number of data points which end up in 12 crossover points which result in just a few crossover points for each sibling. It looks complicated but other than the numerical values from 105 to 115 flows easily. I shall contemplate the last part of the chromosome for a bit. I have some good matches again on this chromosome especially at the end I am looking at. 

This has been a good look at phasing my grandparents and I am noticing as I work my way through the possibilities of creating such charts for my great grandparents. I do have a number of areas where it is obvious that part of a length of a particular known chromosome belongs to one set of great grandparents and another part to the other set in that family grouping. I need to decide if that knowledge is worth the effort of breaking it out or whether my time is better spent on my newsletter research and my Siderfin book and others in my mind. For the moment the newsletters and books win out. It is a number of years since I have had so much time to contemplate my own research and think for long periods about it. 

Chromosome 15 completed moving to Chromosome 14

I finished Chromosome 15 this morning. I am still ambivalent about this particular one. I do not have any sizeable matches other than in the Buller line that I know the genealogy. The others I have some information but not adequate enough to make me feel that this chromosome is where it should be in terms of phasing. Time will tell; a couple more good matches and it will be good to go and perhaps one of these days. 

Chromosome 14 is one of the most uniform ones that I have with just four crossover points and most have at least one chromosome that is virtually complete from a grandparent.  I am going to go back to basic numbers though once again as I have found that to be an interesting way to look at the phasing of the chromosome. On this chromosome I have five third cousins sharing matches with all of us.

Other than that the day has begun as a sunny but cold one. I am looking forward to my run in a couple of hours. Then lunch and a good walk outside. I do get a lot of exercise that is for sure. 

Chromosome 14 completed and I feel fairly confident with this one. Having strong long matches in Pincombe and Rawlings makes a big difference. Plus there is only one length of Blake between all five of us and that one is pretty obvious. The Buller matches not quite as long as the Pincombe and Rawlings but still enough to guarantee success in completing this chromosome. Other than X this is the shortest time to completion. 

Minus 7 degrees celsius at 8:00 am

Winter is definitely coming; just waiting for a load of the lovely white snow to blanket the world around me. I do so love the snow. But I did hire a company to clear my laneway and walk because that is maybe a bit too much. I found it hard two years ago to keep up with the dumping of snow at the end of the laneway and heavy snowfalls so we hired a company last year and will do that as long as we live in this house. I never used to mind shoveling the snow actually.  It was this comforting cyclical thing that we all did as part of our living in Canada year in and year out. I have not had any desire to escape the snow reality actually. Spending a week in the sun can be fun mid winter but for the most part I like this comfortable memory of life in Canada coming back year after year. 

Yesterday I completed Chromosome 16 and was quite pleased with the final result. Everything fitted in which is always a plus as well. I did start work on Chromosome 15 but have decided to work everyone of these right up from the basic numbers. I have done that pretty much from Chromosome 23 down to Chromosome 16 so might as well continue with that as it means no glitches of tiny little matches that do not seem quite right but overall fit in just fine. I rather like the no glitches now that I have achieved it this far. Whether that will continue remains to be seen. Visual phasing means you do not necessarily see those little glitches as that was the way that I started but actually using the numbers and working with the data from 23 and Me on the four that have tested there gives a similar picture but perhaps more accuracy. What I need is more second cousins testing to check that out for sure. Lots of third cousins have tested giving me an interesting picture but second cousins would make that picture very clear. 

Still working on the Siderfin book and that is proving to be quite interesting. I suspect that I will not complete that task until early in the New Year and then it too will be blogged on my website. I think I will turn it into chapters. Mostly James Sanders created a book of documents with some text but mainly documents. I am not going to add that much text but will add chapters just to help to separate the various centuries of material out and create a table of contents. I will again use Excel to create the genealogical table which he created with my additions and the size is quite large so will likely break the larger table down as well into distinct groupings. For instance my line coming down from Robert Siderfin and Elizabeth Question has quite a bit of genealogical material and would benefit from being on its own. They married by 1685 - I have not yet searched out the Parish Registers of Dunster.

Another Monday morning has arrived with bright sunshine but minus 2 celsius

As a child Monday was always wash day. The clothes line was filled with frozen clothes in the winter. But my mother had a dryer quite early on so that did pass but in the early 50s we were still recovering from the war and industries had to convert from war material production back to peacetime production. Unlike Europe and the British Isles though we were no longer rationed and enjoyed pretty much a regular diet once again. I do not remember the rationing days just heard them talked about as a child. 

Today I work on Chromosome 16; my fingers have been itching all week end to get back to my DNA work. My younger sister does all the extracting of people so no sense in duplicating that work. I did do some and still do whenever I am trying to work with a close match. Once I see that it is the Buller line though or the Rawling line here in Canada or the United States or the Blake line or the Pincombe line then I tend not to follow through on it unless the person writes to me in which case I will try to discover our most common recent ancestor. Sometimes they will tell me if they know but my families have been gone from England now for more than a century (my father and his parents were the last to come in 1913). No one remembers them there although some remember of them which is always interesting. 

Chromosome 16 is now a perfect match with the 23 and Me information and the FT DNA information worked in. I had not so much missed a crossover as misunderstood the implication of introducing the one set in. There were two new crossover points and I had mistakenly placed one of the crossover points in duplicate with another mostly because of the graphic - it is really essential to go back to the numerical values as well when items are close. 

Unlike the last Chromosome (Chromosome 17)  Chromosome 16 has only 50 members in total with seven of them known to me in terms of genealogy. The known portions are primarily Pincombe although this Chromosome has quite low Pincombe input with only three of the five inheriting any Pincombe and two of those quite a small portion. I have a longer length (about half in one length and a second smaller length) and another has about two thirds of the chromosome length as Pincombe. One has none at all and actually has two lengths of chromosome inherited completely from two of the four grandparents. With collapsing pedigrees (on both sides of my family back at the 3rd great grandparent level) this does occur on other chromosomes as well. I could see on the last Chromosome that one of the Pincombe sections (no collapsing pedigree there particularly) was actually inherited from three different sets of grandparents (4x great grandparents, 3x great grandparents and 2x great grandparents). Once I get settled with my phasing of my grandparents then I will start to think about further breakdown of these phasing charts but for the moment I am content with phasing my grandparents.

Home again

Lovely weekend at the cottage and  home again. It was cold but very quiet. The blue jays were singing happily in the trees. Love the song of the jay for sure. Possibly heard some chickadees but did not have my binoculars with me to see if I was correct. The blue jays came quite close actually so that I could see them very well.

Worked at Sudoku puzzles once again. They relax my mind and I do enjoy working with numbers. However, I leave the book there as I have a lot of work to do and the puzzles are very addictive. I prefer to do the most difficult ones. 

Walked outside for a while and enjoyed the crisp cold air in the woods. It was most pleasant. Went down to the dock and there wasn't anybody out today. It is getting late to do any boating for sure. Spring will come and then back to swimming and boating. 

Will listen to my Church Service on You-Tube tomorrow. I could have sat outside and listened but decided the walk in the woods would be really good for me. The day moves along so quickly and it was nearly noon before I was finished so missed my service live but will see it tomorrow.

 

Cold but pleasant

 The cottage as always is cooler than the city but very pleasant. The mind just enjoys what it sees and is content. Plus there is a Sudoku book at the cottage and when I first retired I got used to being home all day by playing Sodoku. It does take time to free the mind from an 8 hour day of work away from home or even at home. You need to still keep the brain cells humming and Sudoku does do that for sure at least for me. That lasted for about a year and I discovered microsoft solitaire and that became my new way to start the day to wake up the brain. 

Looking forward to getting back to Chromosome 16 and the small bit of tweaking that I did again with the results of the one person who did not do 23 and Me. The FT DNA results fit in very well into the schematic but at the time I first phased I was not as knowledgeable and missed the numerical record and what it meant. 

I have five new matches to work in as well. I pretty much do not look at anything under 20 cM these days unless it is an interesting spot or I know the genealogy of the person (i.e. they are related to me). 

This week flew by very fast but I have managed to keep up my exercise for the most part. I will clean the basement again today as I want it to be already when my daughter comes home. The cleaners will keep the other two floors spotless as always. I am very pleased with their work. The basement though is somewhat cluttered although considerably less so now. There is a huge empty area actually now and soon it will be empty all through the middle with just things around the outside. That will be really nice. 

Chromosome 16 and an interesting difference

 I always had a little difficulty with Chromosome 16 in the past as my one sibling did not seem to fit in so I went right back to the actual numerical values and worked with that. I will continue with it when I have time next week. The next couple of days will be really busy with a couple of other items. 

I need now to verify that everything works with the slight change. I now need to compare the set of unknown matches which number around 42 and I have 7 known matches but again the lengths are somewhat short to really let me use them to create the layout for myself and my siblings. 

Cleaning day yesterday and vacuuming day before yesterday really improved that for me. I was finished earlier and less tired at the end of the day. 

In Orleans today and then off to the cottage.

Another day, another chromosome

 Working on chromosome 16 today and I think I will go back to basics on this one as well. Not for any particular reason other than an unexpected full match when only a half match is expected on a short length between two siblings. I knew that was there but it actually worked with the matches so decided that I would leave it for later way back when I started all of this. But now I am using the 23 and Me results for four siblings and working in the fifth result from FT DNA. That does make a difference and I need to do that with every one from now on likely as I have pretty much done anyway from Chromosome 23 on down! I just didn't particularly comment on it. The interesting part is that no match has changed hands and the chart looks pretty much as it di with a few small tweaks here and there when needed. 

This idea of phasing grandparents is an interesting one for sure. Listening to Linda Reid's talk I was thinking that I will likely be failing my lines because I am only interested in working backwards but in the future there isn't anything to prevent the first cousins from working on DNA or the second cousins which now number ten with more to come likely. That is a big group of people although the range in age is enormous from just under one year of age all the way up to 26 years of age but in my family of siblings the age range is now 66 to 83 so 17 years there and 25 in the second cousins. The first cousins are now ranged from 58 to 33 giving a similar range at the moment but the range between second cousins will eventually be larger. Then there will be the third cousins much into the future although there are likely great grandchildren for my oldest sibling in the nearer future. 

This is also cleaning day. I did not have the energy to scrub the kitchen floor after knowing there was a meeting coming last evening just late in the day. But fortunately I had vacuumed and done a little washing up here and there. I find it easier to do when the dogs are at daycare and everyone is out of the house. Then I am not inconveniencing anyone. I was sound asleep at nine so never heard a thing actually. I am doing well here getting mostly 7 to 8 hours (and closer to 8 most nights) of sleep each night.  I have gone to bed mostly by nine every night since my eldest daughter was quite small. When I was ten our family doctor said that I should always walk a mile a day because I skipped a beat when he listened to my heart beat. I had no idea what he was talking about at that time but I did do that. Eventually I ran a mile a day in my teen years on; I decided if walking was good running must be even better. Now I run fourty minutes most days except cleaning day. I get an excellent workout without running that day although still walk for 45 minutes.

A most interesting day yesterday

Yesterday proved to be a fascinating day. After working on the transcription of Robert Siderfin's will from 1627 I moved back to Chromosome 17. I reworked it from basic and the result was somewhat the same but a couple of interesting differences in the one individual who did not test at 23 and Me. I had missed a possible cross over point that was actually shared with one other that solved the conundrum with some of the results. 

So I then got into the 64 matches that we have on that chromosome. It has quite a long length of Pincombe for some and quickly it emerged that one section had been inherited from my grandfather Pincombe from his mother likely and was possibly all Routledge going back to my 3x great grandparents. The matches are all deep in the past for sure. The Routledge name never occurred in anyone's list because the matches are either from Scotland (living there still) or from the United States mostly the Virginia/Carolina colonies where there was a large migration from County Antrim in 1772 which included a number of Scot families that had been planters sent to Northern Ireland during the Cromwell period. There was a clear difference between the first set of Pincombe results and the second set which are side by side and would have come from my Pincombe line again going back to my 3x great grandfather Robert Pincombe or his wife Elizabeth Rowcliffe. A real lesson in crossover points and how DNA moves through a family. There was also a third set of Pincombe on this same chromosome uniquely different from the other two. Interestingly one member of the first group lives in Rutledge, Tennessee!

With so many matches, it will take me most of the day to get through Chromosome 17 I expect. Plus my fingers are itching to get on with the Siderfin book. I finally realized that I really needed my daughter's help looking at her Dad's research so will spend my time with her working on that and just have mornings for my research then. That is if she has time at Christmas break. She has a PhD course to teach next term along with one other. She has a number of committees she is on including chairing one of them. Her PhD student is moving into research and writing so will take up more of her time as well. Plus she has her own research to work on. But she has promised not to teach next summer, just do her research, so maybe we can get through some boxes then and write to the people that I need to contact with regard to original material and whether they are interested in having it.

The best of intentions

 Although I started this day with the best of intentions i.e. I was going to work on Chromosome 17, I ended up proofreading the will of Robert Siderfin (1628) which I had transcribed back in 2006 when I was first into Paleography. Needless to say it did need tweaking here and there plus I was not doing Latin Probates in those days so I did that as well. I had inserted the old one into the Siderfin Book I am working on with the idea in mind that I would proofread it and transcribe the probate. Remembering that after clearing away the breakfast dishes and unloading the dishwasher, it took first claim on my time. I am enjoying transcribing to be honest. I got away from it for a couple of years when Edward was ill although still do a little. But now I am back into research full time once again. I, for some odd reason, find reading the old English records a fascinating and not overly difficult thing to do. Granted there are some words that I can not get very readily and I do search online for possibilities. Eventually I mostly end up with what I really think it is or what someone else has thought it was. But those instances are not actually very often. I am finding that paleography is perhaps my niche in life at this time. 

Robert Siderfin whose will was dated 19 Aug 1627 and probated 31 Jan 1627 (Old Style so 1627/28) is possibly the Robert Siderfin mentioned in the Chancery papers during the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign. I can not yet be positive about that but I am slowly collecting up the information that is available and not captured earlier by James Sanders, JP in his book the Siderfin Family of West Somerset. Now that I am into this, I intend to basically republish the book (on my blog) with all the additions and I will clearly mark the additions and perhaps make note of areas where I am not agreeing with James Sanders. After 110 years it is appropriate to readdress this book about the Siderfin Family and ensure that any new information is worked into it. I am sure a hundred years from now even more will be available and some of my thoughts will be questioned as they should be. I spent enough years in Science studying and working that I would not be happy to think that people would accept all that I write as perfect. We are meant to question what is written so that we understand it better and make corrections where errors have been made in the past. 

The testator, Robert Siderfyn,  is living in the parish of Luxborowe (in the diocese of Bath and Wells, Somerset) and he asked to be buried in the Chancel of the Church at Luxborowe. He mentions a couple of people in the beginning of his will a Robert Siderfin, son of William Siderfin, Robert Westeron, son of William Westeron and Robert Siderfin son of Robert Siderfin of Minehead. He mentions that his sons and daughters have children. He then mentions his son William Siderfin, daughter (unmarried) Marie/Mary Siderfin, and his son Thomas Siderfin. Thomas and Mary are to have the remainder of his lease in South Wheddon tenement, Cutcombe. They also inherit his lease to keep 100 sheep at Brundon plus his property there. As well seven acres of wood in Luxborrowe (Priory Wood) for Thomas and Mary. He has a daughter Jane (likely married as he mentions her portion is not fully paid). Elner Westeron (the testator's sister's grandson) and Johanne Croutch (his granddaughter). His wife's name is Christian. He signs his will with his own hand (full signature Robert Siderfin) providing the transcription of the court recorder has been faithful. 

Already I have having problems with the genealogical chart produced by James Sanders at the back of the book. There are a number of records available now on the Somerset website that mention the children of the various Siderfin families so will extract all of that material as well. I may order some of the records (electronic copy). 

Recorded: 3^rd February 2006, re-transcribed 16 Nov 2021

Source: National Archives, Kew

Place: Luxburough, Somerset, England

Type of Record: Will

Dated: 19 August 1627; probated 31 January 1627 (old Style)

[in margin] Roberti Siderfyn (handwritten)

1	In the name of God Amen The
2	nineteenth daie of August in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred
3	twentie and seaven I Robert Siderfin of the parish of Luxborowe within the
4	dioces of Bath and Wells being somewhat sicke in body but of perfect minde
5	and memory praise bee to allmightie god therefore. I doe make this my last will and
6	Testament in manner and forme following. First I bequeath my soule to allmightie
7	god and my body to bee buried in the Chauncell of Luxborowe Item I give to the Cathedrall
8	church of Wells vij d. Ite[m] I give to Robert Siderfin the sonne of William Siderfin and
9	to Robert Westeron the sonne of Willia[m] Westeron and to Robert Siderfin the sonne of
10	Robert Siderfine of Mynehead to any of them one heafer yeardling Item I give to all the
11	rest of my sonne and daughter s children to every of them five Ewe sheepe apeece It[em] I give to
12	the poore of Cutcombe 6 s and to the poore of Luxborowe 6 s. Item I give to William
13	Siderfin my sonne my best meane and ploughstuffe for eight Oxin to bee deliv[ere]d him after the decease
14	of Christian my wife and the cubbard in the hall and table board in the same to bee delivered as abovesaid
15	Item I give unto Marie Siderfin my daughter unmarried two hundred pounds. Item I give and
16	bequeath unto Thomas Siderfin my sonne and Mary Siderfin my Daughter all that tearme of
17	yeares and estate which I have in a tenement called South Wheddon lying within the p[ar]ish of
18	Cutcombe Item I give unto the said Thomas Siderfin and Marie Siderfin my leasee for yeares
19	for to keepe one hundred sheepe upon Brundon and my whole interest and estate therein as
20	alsoe I give unto the said Thomas Siderfin and Mary Siderfin my lease for tearme of years
21	W[hi]ch I have in seaven acres of wood lying w[i]thin the p[ar]ish of Luxborrowe be my part of Priory
22	Wood and all such trees as are by the same lease granted mee w[i]th forsaid p[re]misses are lying
23	within the Countie of Som[er]set Item I give unto every of my Godchildren twelve pence apeece
24	And fourtie pounds of my said daughter Marys portion or el[s]e my daughter Janes portion
25	which is yet unpaid in a great parte is to bee paid by my sonne William unto one of them
26	W[hi]ch he upon good consideration hath undertaken to paie Ite[m] I give unto Elner Westeron [sister's grandson] and
27	Johanne Coutch [his granddaughter] three pounds apeece to bee paid w[i]thin two years after my decease the residue
28	of my goods not given nor disposed I give and bequeath unto Christian my wife and Thomas
29	Siderfin my sonne whom I make my sole Executors of this my last will In witness whereof
30	I have hereunto sett my hand Robert Siderfin Witnessed here unto The marke of
31	Christopher Webber The marke of Robert Copp[e]r The marke of John Burges
32	Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascriptum apud
33	London coram venerabili viro domino Henrico Marten Milite legum doctore
34	curie Prerogative Cantuariensis Magistro custode sive Commissario l[egi]time constituto
35	ultimo die mensis Januarij Anno domino iuxta  cursum et computationem Eccl[es]ie
36	Anglicane millesimo sexcentesimo vicesimo septimo Juramento Christiane Relicte
37	dicti defuncti et Thome Siderfyn filij dicti defuncti et Executorum in hu[ius]modi Testamento
38	Nominat quibus commissa fuit Administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum iurium
39	Et creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fideliter Administrando eadem ad sancta dei
40	Evangelia Coram Petro Poole Cl[er]ico dioces de Chard Vigore Commissionis in
41	ea p[ar]te al[ia]s emanat Jurat. Ex[aminat]

I did not come across any mention of this will in the book that I have noticed but will watch for it. The will of Robert Siderfin in 1689 is mentioned and he was at East Lynch, Timberscombe.