Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Protestation Returns and interesting results

 I always thought in the back of my mind that I needed to look at the Protestation Results for Devon (all of it) since the charts produced by the earlier researchers had included a number of places in Devon other than the north west which was where I had found most Pincombes in my searches. 

The chart that I produced when we were in Salt Lake City in 2008 was the following:

Parish    Surname    Forename    Suffix
Abbotsham    Pincombe    Richard    senior
Abbotsham    Pincombe    Richard    junior
Alwington    Pincombe    Thomas   
Bishops Nympton    Pincombe    John    senior
Bishops Nympton    Pincombe    John    junior
Bishops Nympton    Pincombe    William    senior
Bishops Nympton    Pincombe    William    junior
Chittlehampton    Pincombe    Richard   
Chittlehampton    Pincombe    William    senior
Chittlehampton    Pincombe    William    junior
Chumleigh    Pincombe    Robert   
Chumleigh    Pincombe    Robert   
Chumleigh    Pincombe    Thomas   
Great Torrington    Pincombe    Roger   
High Bickington    Pincombe    John   
Knowstone    Pincombe    John   
North Molton    Pincombe    Bartholomew   
North Molton    Pincombe    Thomas    senior
North Molton    Pincombe    Thomas    junior?
Poughill    Pincombe    John   
Satterleigh    Pincombe    Philip   
South Molton    Pincombe    Henry   
South Molton    Pincombe    Robert   
South Molton    Pincombe    Robert   
Twitchen    Pincombe    John   

Definitely I was a newbie in those days and had not recorded the Hundred along with this information but it can be readily found so no real problem there. 

I am just into South Molton Hundred now with my reading of the Protestation Returns but thus far I have collected:

Hundred    Parish    Surname    Forename    Notes
Bampton    Bampton    Penkeme    Edward    Signed P
Black Torrington    Hatherleigh    Peacombe    George   
Braunton    Filley    Pincombe    William    Churchwarden
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    Alexander   
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    Edward   
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    Henry    Senior
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    Henry    Junior
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    John   
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    Richard   
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    Thomas   
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    William    Senior
Wonford    Gidley    Tincombe    William    Junior
Crediton    Crediton    Tincombe    Bennett   
Crediton    Morchard Bishop    Tincombe    Robert   
Crediton    Morchard Bishop    Tinkecom    George   
Fremington    Great Torrington    Pincombe    Roger   
Fremington    St Giles    none       
Fremington    Roborough    none       
Hartland    Yarnscombe    Pincam    Edmund   
Hartland    Yarnscombe    Pincam    Richard   
Hemyock    Hemyock    Buncombe    Henry   
Hemyock    Hemyock    Burcombe    Mark   
Hemyock    Hemyock    Burcombe     Nicholas   
Lifton    Okehampton    Tyncombe    Edward   
Lifton    Okehampton    Dinecombe    Hugh   
Lifton    Okehampton    Bonicomb    Roger   
North Tawton    Clanaborough    Tincombe    George   
North Tawton    High Bickington    Pyncombe    John   
North Tawton    High Bickington    Dencombe    Philip   
North Tawton    Tracey Nymet    Tingecombe    William   
Shebbear    Abbotsham    Pencombe     Richard    senior
Shebbear    Abbotsham    Pencombe     Richard    junior
Shebbear    Alwington    Pincombe    Thomas   
Shebbear    Beaford    Pinckcombe    Abraham   
Shebbear    Beaford    Pinkcombe    Arthur   
Shebbear    Bideford    Pyncombe    Richard   
Shebbear    Iddesleigh    Podicombe    John   
Shebbear    Littleham    Pincombe    George   
Shebbear    Merton    Pincome    John   
Shebbear    Merton    Pincome    Matthew   
Shebbear    Merton    Pincome    Thomas   
Shebbear    Petrockstowe    Pinnacombe    John   
South Molton    Chittlehampton    Pincombe    Richarde   
South Molton    Chittlehampton    Pincombe    `William    Senior
South Molton    Chittlehampton    Pincombe    William    Junior

I will continue collecting today but should complete the project. I need to check the various parish registers to see if I am able to determine if this spelling possibility gets repeated in the registers or whether it was a transcription anomaly. But certainly the results are interesting perhaps most certainly for the lack of the Pinkham surname in any of its possible spellings. I have had the Tincombe/Tyncombe surname spelling mentioned to me before but had not really looked into that at all. Once completed I will work with the older charts (they do have input from people in the various areas living in Devon) and the parish registers to see what I can find. I think it was a necessary step. I recorded no surnames at Roborough and St Giles in the Woods in Fremington Hundred just so that I would remember that I had read the original return on the government website. I had expected to find the family there perhaps although did not have a fixed idea that I would. 

Other than that the cleaning all done for another week. Another load to go to Salvation Army and will approach the Tool Library to see if they would like any of these tools. They are a collected from over 55 years and Edward had some tools when we married. He would like to think that others would benefit from his tools.

I will also check all of these parishes for the subsidies in the 1500s to see if there is more variety to the spelling there that I have missed although I have looked for a wider range of spellings there than I looked at in 2008 at Salt Lake City! One learns as one moves along.

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