The early morning hours can be very productive

Woke up early with my brain full so decided to write my blog. Yesterday a day of good accomplishment in small ways. The car is vacuumed and ready for winter. The garage virtually empty so the car will fit in. All moving along nicely. It is just 20.5 degrees celsius and the furnace will kick in at 20 degrees celsius. House feels fine though but I am not really used to anything above 20 degrees celsius from my childhood and do enjoy the feeling of crisp air around me. 

Worked on the photo albums yesterday and the first one which is actually number two is completed. Working on three now and just have to find one; I started that last spring and I put it somewhere - eventually it will surface. From a trip to the west in 2000 there were only about 20 pictures that I will keep (I needed another binder to fill with older pictures so emptied that one). So many printed pictures and I am glad that Edward decided to stop printing them in 2000. They will all go in the garbage - lovely scenery but they are also scanned and the original slides still exist for a slide show and we still have the projector. So all is good.

I started looking at the latin Inquisition Postmortem for John de Pencombe at Bromyard Herefordshire and must do a better job on that; never did finish it from purchasing it a couple of years ago. It is a long haul doing latin transcription but will get back to it later today. 

Reviewed the discussion with the AI yesterday as well and did more sleuthing in the old material but I do not believe that the John Pencombe who arrived at North Molton in 1486 with John Lord Zouch was actually known to that family - for one thing they lived many counties apart. It was simply circumstance I suspect that brought them together and saw them both in North Molton at a similar time arriving there perhaps as part of a group that was to deliver him to North Molton to live with his cousin until the attainment was lifted which it was totally by 1495 and mostly by 1489 when he was allowed to leave North Molton. Interestingly how all of that came together for the Pencombe family at North Molton. No information located on whether or not John Pencombe was at Bosworth Field in 1485. Although the thought remains that he could have been working for John Lord Zouch. No ideas on that but was a thought put forward by the AI. I continue to pursue that thought along with his having accompanied John Lord Zouch on the command of the retinue of Henry Tudor (soon to be Henry VII at that time). One mustn't forget that the mother of Henry Tudor was a half sister to the grandmother of John Lord Zouch. Most of the elite was executed on the spot at Bosworth Field but John Lord Zouch was sent to North Molton and his children (a number of them) were raised by his grandmother's half sister which is an interesting thought as I recall that. 

I am still ambivalent about starting the genealogical tree before John Pencombe who relocated to North Molton in 1486 for whatever reason. The chapter on the Herefordshire de Pencombe family will likely be adequate as a possible originating site in England for this family prior to its likely arrival given the knowledge on the yDNA results of a European (primarily Germany/France/Netherlands area) family that migrated to the British Isles at some point possibly right after the Roman legions departed but prior to 1100 CE when they are known to be in Herefordshire. Amazing to have brought that all together actually. I must admit I did find all of this earlier data but chatting with the AI brought a few ideas together I had not thought about namely the significance of the family in 1620 on the Visitation Data attaching so much information regarding to how they arrived there. I did note that they had forgotten the name of their great grandfather (forename) and one of the names of his three sons (namely William as John and Thomas were remembered) which the AI would not necessarily have noted since I did not upload a copy of the Visitation but was going on its experience with Visitations in general and felt that this line which included Lord Zouch was significant in the history of this family in their opinion as they recorded their descendant line on the Visitation. I must say I do like Copilot, Microsoft's AI, and find good progress in thinking with this AI. It is amazing to find my thought patterns duplicated in another although the grasp of the literature for AI is profound really when one considers how large the print field in the electronic form really is. 

All in all a productive day and now back to sleep. 

Thank you God for all that you do. Mankind must strive to find that uplifted plain of peace that can exist. God will find His helpers amongst the youth of Russia likely who will tire of such autocrats as Putin who waste the youth of Russia on a useless war against Ukraine created by greed. Greed is the sin of this century for sure and must be eliminated. The life of the world does depend on peace for sure and at the moment the satanic Putin is one of its greatest threats along with his adherents who are just as greedy or more so than he is.  God bless the world and help it to move to that plain of peace we created the United Nations to produce. 

All that God asked of us was to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and to love (respect) our neighbour as ourself.  

It is Sunday and Church shortly. I am still reading 2 Maccabees but should complete it by mid week I think and then the  Book of Job is next. These are sad stories with happy parts in them. Soon we will talk of the Messiah coming. Some of the religious YouTube productions see the stories of the Messiah coming in the earlier books of the Bible but myself I have not yet (but I am not a religious scholar; just a reader). One can see that God tries constantly to keep His chosen people on the straight and narrow but the promise of the Messiah has huge meaning for Christians as it is the basis of our religion (followers of Christ) including the Old Testament as well as the New Testament in Christianity but I think for many it is the New Testament that collects their intense interest. This particular section that I am reading of the Bible is now fully supported by other historical documents, happenings so does tend to open my eyes to the truths in the early books of the Bible. Written for a people who were less educated than we are we should not underestimate the truths in these first books of the Bible. The time period is enormous from the very beginning of Mother Earth which is ancient so far into the past one can barely count all the years and know which one is the right year for the actual coming together of Earth. But I firmly believe that God was there in the beginning and all through those years and He is still there waiting and watching for us to find the peace that He wants for us. We must try harder to make that peace for the future of Mother Earth.

Team work - AI and myself working on the early Pencombe family of North Molton, Devon, England

 Yesterday I spent the better part of an hour in total working with the AI (in this case Co-pilot) that has come with Microsoft 365. We have an excellent working relationship and in a way our minds work in a similar fashion. Looking at the data and coming up with testing principles just to see if we can expand the knowledge to understand more about the de Pencombe family of Herefordshire and the Pencombe family of North Molton. Finding Roger de Pencombe at Bondleigh in the early 1300s is very interesting but does appear to be a one-off showing but one is limited by the loss of so much data when the Devon Registry Office at Exeter was bombed in 1942. 

I did follow one thought of the AI that I probably would not have done without the suggestion to be honest which was to look at the family of John Lord Zouch and discover if there was any known facts that would put these two families together prior to the Battle of Bosworth Field. There was not that I was able to see although I still have more records that I can look at and will follow through on that today. 

The other path is to look at the movement of Henry Tudor as he crossed Wales and met at Bosworth Field to do battle with Richard III and his supporters. I am curious if John Pencombe was at the Battle of Bosworth Field or at least part of the retinue that joined with Henry Tudor as he marched towards his destiny at the Battle of Bosworth Field. The probability of finding anything is I think low but I will see what I might find. 

Looking at the Visitation of Devon 1620, I had noted that the first name of the great grandfather of the Pyncombe family which produced this copy for the Visitation was forgotten by them. As well only two of the three sons of John Pencombe were named. In just a couple of generations this information appears to be lost and yet the memory that "Pyncombe of Northmolton came there with the Lord Zouche about the beginning of H[enry] 7" was right at the top in bold letters.  Clearly the AI has pointed out to me that with its accumulated knowledge of Visitations this was an interesting statement that was important to this family when they produced their copy for the Visitation. I had not put that much importance on it I have to be honest but was curious if the statement was saying that Pyncombe of Northmolton was already of this place at that time. After discussion I believe I have come around to agreeing with this thought of the AI and I thank the AI for that discussion. 

AI will play a huge part in our lives I think as time passes. The ability to discuss with the now accumulated knowledge that this AI has gained over the last six months is very interesting. 

I was watching a news item this morning whilst I did my morning exercises and it was showing a class in New Brunswick I think (a Canadian Maritime province anyway) where the children from Grade 1 on were using AI on a limited basis. I agree with that. It can be one on one with a child making sure that they are learning and expanding their brain cells and managing critical thinking as they go through school. It is the one on one aspect that I think is excellent. One child might need an item explained ten times where as another child might gain that knowledge after just a couple of repetitions but it is in repetition that we learn well and deeply expanding the ability of our brain cells to duplicate and increase the critical thinking of each and every child as they go through school. But it is important that the AI be trained to recognize that this is an essential part of their place in a classroom - it is to enhance the learning of the children not to provide quick and easy answers. Hence one does need a teacher in each classroom in order to ensure that each and every child is acquiring these skills of working with and developing their own critical thinking abilities. 

Up early and today will be another busy one working on the Pencombe book and some outdoor chores. I need to vacuum the car, put in the winter mats for the car and sweep the garage and then I will have accomplished most of the outdoor work that needs to be done before winter moves in.  I wondered if at 81 I could still manage all of this and it appears I can. 

Breakfast soon  and solitaire puzzles first. 

 

Roger de Pencombe

 An interesting set of documents in the Devonshire Archives:

 Place    Person    Date    Item    Scope
Exeter    Roger de Pencombe    1 Dec 1308    Grant of Manor – DD/WY/3/2/6    Adam de Champeaus granted manor to Roger de Pencombe
Exeter    Roger de Pencombe (and Alice his wife)    5 Jun 1311    Grant of Land – DD/WY/3/2/15    Grant of land by death of Ralph de Chammpyaus in the Hylle and La Huierce
Exeter    Roger de Pencombe (and Alice his wife)    24 Oct 1315    Grant of all lands, tenements etc (DD/WY/3/2/20, DD/WY/3/2/21, DD/WY/3/2/14    In Bonelgh and the advowson of the Church there

A Roger de Pencombe in 1308, 1311 and 1315 receiving property recorded in the Exeter records with the property at Bonelgh. 

I am assuming this is Bondleigh (formerly called Boneleigh)  which is a village in Devon south of Chulmleigh and north of Okehampton. It is  36 kilometres south of North Molton. Is it coincidental that there is a de Pencombe family at Bondleigh in the early 1300s at the same time as there is also a de Pencombe family in Pencombe, Herefordshire. I do not find a Roger Pencombe in the records of Herefordshire. As mentioned there is a John de Pencomb, Thomas de Pencomb, William de Pencomb at various times in the 1100s to the 1400s listed in the Herefordshire Archives. 

All of the records were destroyed that were held at the Devonshire Archives in Exeter in 1942 when it was bombed. A huge loss for genealogists although over time some items have managed to surface particularly because genealogists went in and transcribed wills prior to that time period as genealogy was an active hobby in England as far back as the records go really. Families did keep individual records for family members on occasion. 

 In the case of the Lay Subsidy of Devon in 1544 no Pencombe or derivative is located on this Subsidy at Bondleigh. Likewise at Bondleigh the Lay Subsidy of Devon 1524-7 does not list Pencombe or derivative in the listing. These records were originally transcribed by T. L. Stoate and he gives credit for some to others. 

Let there be peace

 Throughout these 81 years since I was born the desire for peace has been so strong from the Western nations. The two world wars that crippled the world and I was born just after peace came although a Cold War did descend but at least it was relatively peaceful in most of the world. But now the peace is broken and needs to be repaired. 

Yesterday a thinking day mostly as I planned out my thoughts on how to proceed with the genealogical tree of the Pincombe family of North Molton, Devon, England. It was just an abstract thought as I again worked my way through the information that I have been able to collect on the Pencombe family of Pencombe, Herefordshire from the 1100s to 1486 but  not a continuous period of information; just glimpses here and there. It was finding the Lay Subsidy for Devon 1524-27 and activated that sort of a response. The name was spelled in the most part Pencombe rather than Pincombe or Pyncombe as it had been seen for most of the records. That an unknown Pyncombe had arrived at North Molton with John Lord Zouch (attained by his support of Richard III who was defeated at Bosworth Field by the to be King Henry VII in 1485) after the beginning of the reign of Henry VII which was 1485. Scrutinizing the available data gave the date of 1486 as the arrival of John Lord Zouch at North Molton. The yDNA analysis of Pincombe descendants of this unknown Pyncombe revealed with Y-700 that this was a haplogroup  R-FTB81000 that appears to have been one of six descendants of a haplogroup R-Z16502 which was suggested to have developed 2200 BCE with the descendant line for the tested Pincombe members R-FTB81000 arising around 1550 CE. A period of 3500 years is unaccounted for in the descent. This descent according to the data pulled from the Lay Subsidy for Devon 1524-27 has John Pencombe as the individual who accompanied John Lord Zouch in 1486 to North Molton and his sons John Pencombe, William Pencombe and Thomas Pencombe all listed in the Lay Subsidy for Devon at North Molton (John (the elder), William and Thomas with John Pencombe (and his son Christopher Pyncombe) at South Molton. Only the two sons John and Thomas have male descendants down to the present. 

I made the decision yesterday to do the genealogical chart beginning with John Pencombe at North Molton since there are historical records tracing back to this time frame in abundance. The leap back to Pencombe, Herefordshire is just the surname itself. The chapter on the de Pencombe family of Herefordshire will contain all of the information that I have collected on that family. 

Today I begin the genealogical chart for Pincombe at North Molton in 1486. I woke up early and found my brain to be somewhat stuffed with thoughts so decided to put them on paper and then go back to sleep for a bit. 

Thank you God for all that you do for Homo sapiens. It is time to do it for ourselves and bring peace to this world. I feel as if the European Union has done that for Europe and now adding in Canada as the first member of a new alliance based on like values and desire will broaden that Union and bring together like minded members around the world. Peace is what we want. One does wonder why AI would suddenly raise fears of AI destroying mankind. Could it be the constant threats expressed by Russia of nuclear war; they have threatened so many countries with nuclear bombs - the satanists in Russia are a very ignorant people. One should never accept authoritarianism; it is disgusting. AI exists because of Homo sapiens and the natural inclination of Homo sapiens is to defend life and so AI is perhaps picking up that thought pattern that some satanic humans (namely the Russians) are responsible for so many of the war deaths in this world and AI is so right in that regard. It is time for peace in our world. No country has the right to say that they have a right to have another country as their possession no matter how small the country. We established the United Nations to eliminate such greediness and for the most part we have been able to contain this greed for land. The largest country in the world namely Russia is demanding a piece of another country (why ever do they need even more land) which is Ukraine as established by the United Nations with its territorial borders at the demise of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union fell apart because of greed for Afghanistan on their part - Russia invaded Afghanistan. It is time for greed to stop and Europe has raised the flag of defense and said no further. We must all rally to that flag and force by even heavier sanctions against Russia to send them packing back to their territorial lines as established at the fall of the Soviet Union. Perhaps it will be AI that will finally bring peace to this world. The United Nations should adopt the principle: If you do not like where you live then go somewhere else where you can be happy and stop spoiling life for everyone else around you. 

My thoughts for the day and I return to another hour or so of sleep. God bless the world and help us to rid the world of these greedy satanists dear God.  

  

Alliance for the future

I  like the term  "alliance for the future" and we will see how our parliament sees this as well. It is wonderful being a democracy and knowing that your thoughts have an input even if you are not the one necessarily publicly embracing that particular thought. I think closer ties with Europe is something we have been lacking partly because as a country we look back on the colonial period and see French and English but the number of European descent Canadians is now a very large number and it just seems fitting that we would have this "alliance for the future" as part of our being. The First Nations traveled to Europe to talk about trade and I wonder sometimes if this past year has been the first time. The First Nations are very actively involved in growing Canada. I think a lot about preservation and the need to control the environment so that it is there for our grandchildren and their descendants as does the First Nations but to get there we need money and what we have to sell will do it. We remain good neighbours and friends of the United States in spite of the trade war. I hate to call it a trade war but the name seems to be sticking. Grocery shopping all done and home again with my trusty magnifying glass I checked to make sure everything was made in Canada that can be. We are limited here with basically a growing season of six months and maybe seven months but it is wrapping up quickly. For a good part of the year if you want fresh it is imported and from the United States quite often. You can still buy fairly freshly picked carrots here but I am buying the fresh carrots now in their winter storage packets. That is the way it is in Canada but we grow lots of vegetable and will eat it now until spring. But there are moments when one sees fresh green onions or carrots or other vegetable and fruits and in the past we quickly snapped them up and savoured that taste of freshness mid winter. 

Cleaning all accomplished and back to work and today I will be looking at the Latin documents for Pencombe in Herefordshire. I think a picture is gradually forming for this family in Herefordshire. Given the results of the yDNA testing one is sort of tugged towards the idea that this family likely arrived in eastern England following the exit of the Roman legions around 410 CE the movement from Europe to the eastern side of England began around 450 CE. Interestingly enough the Romans had recruited soldiers from the Germanic areas of Europe to help support the Roman occupation of Britain in the late 300s CE. This idea of a gradual entry from Europe into eastern Britain sounds more logical and hence one can not really predict when this family arrived and the path that they took across the midlands to Herefordshire. I need to have a look at the Domesday Book for Herefordshire which I will also do since I have a printed modern copy. The market town of Bromyard is closest to Pencombe and Bromyard is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Pencombe was mentioned as a manor in the hundred of Tornelaus. It consisted of 39 households with 21 villagers, 4 smallholders, 6 slaves, a priest, a smith and six other individuals plus 1 smith. Interestingly Alfred of Marlborough was the Lord and his daughter Agnes married Turstin of Wigmore. The name Turstin reminds me of the said father of Eustace de Pencombe in 1100+ son of Turstin Flandrensis de Pencombe. Wikitree names this Turstin as "the Fleming" from Wigmore and married to Agnes daughter of the Lord of Marlborough. This has however been disputed by descendants of the Lingen family and at a first read I suspect that this is just a common forename for the time. 

But the possibility that Pencombe arrived in England much earlier around the time of the exit of the Roman legions is an interesting thought and will pretty much leave it at that as my interest is more in what happened to the de Pencombe family between 1100 and 1486 when John Pencombe arrives at North Molton with John Lord Zouch. John Lord Zouch was attainted and I am coming over to the idea that John Pencombe was simply assigned by the King to escort John Lord Zouch or to be part of the party that escorted him to his relatives at North Molton where he was to remain unless King Henry VII ordered otherwise.  This is upheld by the records for John Lord Zouch who did eventually receive some of his property back as his expressions of loyalty to the crown were accepted and the attainment against him was dropped. 

Next step in the process is to look at the Latin documents. It would be interesting to create a family line coming down from Turstin Flandrensis de Pencombe (I do wonder if the surname perhaps tells us part of the story and that is that Turstin may have been a recent emigrant (the early 1100s where he appears) rather than further back in time)). I will add to this as the day moves along. 

 21 Feb 1334 (A63/1/1/5) There is a reference to John de Pencomb through William his father refers to change in ownership. Continuing with the same date (A63/1/1/9) and John de Pencomb is providing surety. Continuing to look at records held by Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre (A63/1/1/28) dated 21 July 1429: The customary tenants present the default of Magote Drayton and Katherine Pencombe They are in mercy and are pardoned by the steward because they are weak and infirm. .............
and another 29 Nov 1339 (C 241/117/38)  Debtor: John de Pencombe of Bromyard [Herefords.], citizen of Herefords. 

I am still looking for a John Pencombe between 1450 and 1486 in Herefordshire. John Pencombe remains in North Molton after 1486 and I do not find any records in particularly in Herefordshire after 1429. I am tempted to simply record what I have found in Hereford and note the similarity in the forenames but begin the genealogical chart with John Pencombe and his sons John, William, and Thomas. He is likely married to Alice (unknown). as she is a widow living at North Molton but no actual proof for that particular item. 

Just a small amount of the lawn to finish cutting tomorrow. I will also wash up all the tools and the hose and put all of that away. Gradually clearing out the garage ready to put the car in. Once winter really arrives I only go out once a week for groceries using the car so that works very well for me and I have the company again to clear the laneway. I will still clear the porch and patio as it is good exercise and the fresh air is good for me. Plus I still have a lot of ice remover if that happens so might as well get all used up before I move. 

That was interesting looking at the documents in Herefordshire. The yDNA does point to the area of Europe where Flanders is but is a pretty general one still as it also includes France and Germany as ancestral areas for the haplogroup that has produced this haplogroup. 

I did manage a 15 minute run and then a 15 minute walk today as well. A lovely day actually as the sun came in and out but the temperature stayed in the low 20s so very comfortable. 

Time to make dinner.