The Pincombe Charts created by Galen Pinkham and Dr. Richard Pinkham

 Sunday once again and I do love the flow of the week. Sunday is a quiet contemplative day. Another beautiful day in God's world. A bit cloudy but some sun expected for the day didn't check the weather forecast very closely. Church today and not sure where we will see. Perhaps always a surprise. The Anglican Church Services from England always remind me of my childhood which is very pleasant for sure. The Services here have the organ which is fabulous. The choir singing is spectacular. Still reading Job and it is slow reading as I go word by word. I am not sure I ever did that before. Job loved God and couild not be moved away from Him. From the depth of Job's soul he reaches out to God to understand and he feels fulfilled. The Psalms are next and I do love the Psalms. They surround one with beauty and mystery and God Himself. Thank you God for another morning in your world.

 For a long time after I acquired the Pincombe/Pinkham charts I mention in the title I contemplated how to best utilize this information. I photographed them all as a cousin in England had sent them to me. My line was incorrect I did notice that right away. My mother knew her line back to John Pincombe and Grace Manning at least that was what her father told her and my uncle did reinforce that (I have all of those Bishop Nympton records and there are several Pincombe families there in the 1700s and they readily separate out into their respective lines  descending from John Pincombe and Johane Blackmoore (married 22 Sep 1655 at Bishops Nympton)). So it was an incentive to really look at everything that I collected and I have a lot of information over time. All backed up on drives and shared around so as not to lose it. I have blogged a huge amount of it and my blog is backed up as well. Aside from that, it is time to utilize those charts and my account with Find My Past and do a little more sleuthing. I have purchased a number of sets of fiche from North Devon Parishes but Find My Past does have them online now and these old eyes like to be able to enlarge these fiche to read them. So I do that in preference. The Parish Registers were supposed to begin in 1538 which is really handy for this study. Many of them do but not all; some were lost to time and circumstance. Some are very difficult to read. There are nearly 1000 pages of Word text transcription for the Bishops Nympton registers beginning to end. That was my beginning and I discovered a real knack for reading the old script.

I have a study for Pincombe yDNA which I manage and Bill Bleak along with his supporters including me have one for the Blake yDNA. Both have been fascinating and I think finding these de Pencombe families in Devon in the 1300s is a real luxury to sorting out the lines of yDNA perhaps and it is also true of the Blake and I thank Barry Blake for his work initially in creating the different yDNA groups in the Blake lines (there are quite a few in England and Ireland and of course the United States and the Commonwealth plus other areas).  

The interesting part about the charts is that Dr. Richard Pinkham visited many Pincombe families in North Devon and they shared their family lines with him (he acknowledged them on the charts with their names). This work was done in the 1930s or into the early 1940s on I believe. I know that it was before or during the Second World War because he was able to read the Pincombe wills probated within the diocese held at the Exeter Archives. He then donated the Will Abstracts to the Society of Genealogists of which I was a member although I finally did let that membership go. Occasionally I think about picking it up again but for the moment I am not. We spent one day there collecting information that I knew they had and that included the wills which was marvelous as there was the will of my 4x great grandfather (John Pincombe) and others but especially his because I needed to know more about him in order to sort him for sure back to his parents John Pincombe and Grace Manning. 

This however is a research day and I am beginning the three generations starting with John Pencombe and given that his son John had a son Christopher who both also held goods (I must be more careful how I refer to ownership because the English are quite consistent with land or goods being the taxed item) one can not assume that John Pencombe (father to John, William and Thomas) was older because his children had all received goods plus his grandchildren also had goods. A quick check with the AI was revealing as I had a vague memory about the laws of inheritance which Henry VII quickly brought in because of all the deaths particularly young men at Bosworth Field in 1485 leaving a lot of underaged males as inheritors. Christopher and John have both inherited during the life of their father (and mother) but it could be from their mother's side and hence they could be quite young in 1524-7. None the less their father John was likely in his 20s and hence his father likely in his 40s or more. The ability of AI to recall all of this information in an organized manner is excellent and great help with my pursuit of the best story I can write (doing it myself so far from the documents is difficult - AI is a great addition to our lives). Although I normally use CoPilot I do sometimes use some of the others mostly out of curiosity. It will be a Creative Commons License under which I will produce this book and it will be free on my website plus I will upload it to the various places where I uploaded the Siderfin Books that I produced  (I do  need to do proofreading for the indexes which I will do in my spare time one of these days but I suspect it will be another year and I do have new material to add). Although some of the libraries I will upload to like the Guild of one name Studies does keep their Library for members of the Guild. But it will appear on my blog how you can download the book if you wish to have a copy. 

But back to the charts and the first chart is for North Molton and South Molton. For the most part I am not in agreement with this chart because it does not match the wills and the Devon Lay Subsidies or even the Visitation of Devon 1620 - it has some of the information but the descendancy then does not match the Parish Records. I will spend the day working my way through some of that data although this will also be a rest day for my eyes. They are getting old and need one day off a week. I may sort pictures for a while until Church time. 

Solitaire puzzles are done; I woke in the night and did them. I do that sometimes as it stops a runaway/busy mind that sometimes comes to me in the night. Breakfast also; exercises all done.  

 

 

 

Working with the AI for a bit today

 Today ends my one week looking at the old records and contemplating just what the one liner in the heading of the Visitation of 1620 Devon for the Pyncombe family really meant. 

Point one: The logic of choosing Pencombe as a surname with a village called that in Herefordshire was fairly common when surnames first came into being. generally it was de Pencombe so "of Pencombe" leaving one with the impression at least two sets of people from Herefordshire were in Devon in the 1300s - early 1300s Bondleigh (Roger de Pencombe) and as an Assessor on the 1332 Lay Subsidy for Devon at Molland (John de Pencomb'). Were they related? Then we have the third Pencombe family in 1486 at North Molton (one hundred and fifty years later) but they use the surname Pyncombe on the Visitation of Devon  1620. 

Point two: The only Pencombe/Pincombe/Pyncombe family members on the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy are living in the North Molton area. I did try a number of spellings including Tencombe which has been suggested to me but on the early records it was spelled Teigncombe like the river nearby where they were and considerably further away from the Pencombe than Bondleigh was.  I have eliminated that line as being Pencombe. 

Point three:  

 The 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy for 1524 has in the index Pencombe pages 89, 90, 91; Pincombe page 89, which results in South Molton Borough: John Pencome G 10; South Molton Parish: Chris Pyncombe G5; North Molton Parish: John Pencombe G5, Thomas Pencombe W 1 (one after the other), William Pencombe G2.  The 1620 Visitation of the County of Devon for Pyncombe was submitted by William Pyncombe of South Molton and East Buckland the son of William Pincombe and Emot Snowe with this William being the son of Thomas Pencombe as noted on the Visitation. The sons of John Pencome/Pencombe at South Molton were John and Christopher with each having a son John. So this second generation coming down is visible with this chart and leads into the third but rather inadequately given the actual parish registers that exist and the Devon Lay Subsidy of 1543-45 and the Devon Muster Roll of 1569. But it does serve to separate out the two son's lines since they are the only two of three sons with descendants coming down past the third generation. Christopher's line appears to disappear but there was family lore in the South Molton family that some members of the South Molton family moved to the Barnstaple area and the one tester who matches the other four has a family history back to Barnstaple and is the basis of my thought that the two lines continue to be represented to the current time. The only Pencombe in  Devon at this time appears to be at North or South Molton.

Point four:

The 1543 - 45 Devon Lay subsidy has entries for Pencombe pages 62, 63, 77, 86, 105; Pincombe page 61, Pinkham page 94. This results in South Molton Parish (1544): John Pyncome 13, Christopher Pyncombe 10; North Molton Parish (1545): Alice Pencombe 5 (one notes this does not say widow), William Pencombe 6, John Pencombe 4; (1544) William Pyncum 13; Nymett Regis (Kings Nympton Parish (1545) Richard Pencombe 1; Estbuclond Parish (East Buckland (1544) Thomas Pencomb 9; Tawstock Parish (1544) Philip Pynkeham 8 (who is he?); Bedeford Parish (Bideford 1544) Richard Pencombe 5. 

Summing up: I have looked at all this data a number of times but it was back in my much earlier days into genealogy. First things I noticed was the Snow family here and there although said to be Anstey for Emot Snow the wife of Thomas Pencombe (there was actually one at Bishops Nympton). I found my eyes wandering over the areas around North Devon and contemplated whether everything made it into the index since this was prepared totally by hand but knowing the ancestors they tended towards accuracy but having discovered the page difference in 1332 for John de Pencomb' I feel I should spend perhaps another week looking at all of this data. 

Point five:

The Devon Muster 1569 was also very interesting: Pincombe pages 147, 162, 164, 165: East Buckland William Pyncomb G7, William Pyncombe pikeman; North Molton John Pincomb (presenter sworn); South Molton Parish with the Towne Christopher Pincomb G7, John Pincomb G6, John Pincombe G7, John Pincombe pikeman. Pinkham page 141 Yarnscombe: Richard Penkham pikeman;  A little more time on this database is needed as well.  (Yarnscombe is near Barnstaple). 

The one week revealed a few weaknesses in my work although I did review the Early Chancery Proceedings going backwards from 1486 and then forwards from 1486 but did not locate anything on the Pencombe (or any derivative spelling) in these records. 

Point six: 

The Purcome family on the 1543-45 Devon Lay subsidy I have eliminated in the past at Blackawton Parish. I could revisit that although I do not think they are the same family as they are in Exeter which is too far away for either of the two de Pencombe members found in the 1300s I still think.

Conclusion on the one week for me:

As suggested by the AI, the use of Pyncombe of Northmolton may have hinted at prior knowledge of Pyncombe elsewhere in Devon. It was not possible to link the two records from the 1300s with the family in the late 1400s. It was not that unusual for people to pick a place name as their surname. I think I will spend another week sorting and entering in all the information for the first three generations at North Molton. The line at South Molton was considered to have died out in the male line so will have to look at that carefully to see if indeed this line coming down into the 2000s is totally descendant of Thomas Pencombe son of John Pencombe. All testers match so one must be careful to consider all the written thoughts on the family at South Molton having moved there from North Molton in the early 1500s. 

Time for a bit of exercise. Breakfast finished and solitaire puzzles complete.  

 Put my points into my chat window with the Co-pilot and we agree. Another week still trying to locate information on Pencombe in Herefordshire or Devon. The importance of the la Zouche family in all of this is the location of Northmolton being in common to both at this moment in time and that the arrival was simultaneously occurring at the same time - the reason unknown and without reading into the la Zouche family papers I think that I would not find it. A number of young men were executed after the Battle of Bosworth Field and it is highly likely that anything that saved a youth in a family was probably kept pretty tight in the family. Releasing it in this way over one hundred and thirty four years later was likely considered to be history and the English are sticklers for history having grown up with two English born and raised grandparents and coming from families dating back hundreds of years and perhaps thousands. The English do appreciate their history and have been very speedy at saving it electronically for the generations ahead to enjoy. The lessons of the Second World War were well learned. Moving ahead in some terms with actually creating the three generations coming down from John Pencombe and possibly his wife Alice. The lack of the word widow in the record is troubling but at no point do we see a daughter in that second generation. The  name Alice was a popular one within the family in those generations along with Johane. 

I must continue to hunt out the mystery of the South Molton Pencombe family. Christopher and his son John disappear. John and his son John continue the line and it is well known and published. The wealth of that family became the Pyncombe Trust and has been very well utilized through the centuries in the village concerned. I have a Philip Pynkeham at Tawstock that is very interesting. 

Robert Pincombe (my 3x great grandfather and his wife Elizabeth Rowcliffe Pincombe) had eight children and the daughter was named Elizabeth; the seven sons were named (birth order) Robert, John, William, Thomas, George, Richard and Philip. Interesting that but Elizabeth's father's forename was Philip and her brothers' forenames were Philip, George and William so not referring back in time perhaps very far. The interesting part of all of this was I discovered Rowcliffe cousins in Huron County, Ontario. 

Must check on lunch.  

 

 

 

Continuing in my research on Pencombe

 When I first located the will of Johanne Pencombe at East Buckland and her will is written 7 May 1563 but not probated until 23 Oct 1590, I felt strongly that she was the widow of Thomas (youngest son of John Pencombe). The executor was her eldest son William. She mentions her children Alice married to John Lock 29 Nov 1561 at North Molton, John married to Emet Hodge 1 Jul 1560 North Molton and at this time they have one daughter [baptized 5 Apr 1561 North Molton], Richard  lived at Bideford (1543 Devon Lay Subsidy).and has one son at least [name is known to be Thomas] and her unnamed daughter (perhaps deceased) married to John Jasse. We were at East Buckland Parish Church (Edward and I) in 2008 and it is a beautiful Church (very old and the inside is magnificent). William in 1563 does not have any children mentioned which  helps with the age of Richard his fourth son as he was not born before 1563. Since Richard (son of William) was married perhaps in the period 1598/99 since his first daughter Anne is buried 3 Mar 1598 (old style so 1599) and if married around 25 would have been born 1573 and as the fourth child (not sure where the two daughters fit into that birth order) a ten year gap between the writing of the will in 1563 and 1573 is reasonable. I haven't thought about that for a while so Richard being buried in 1648 would be perhaps 75 years of age which does work so will erase that thought from my mind. 

My intent though was to see what I have on the children of Thomas and Joane Pencombe. Thomas is alive for the Lay Subsidy in 1544 living at East Buckland. Sometime between 1545 and 1563 Thomas dies. That would mean that his eldest William (possibly late twenties to early thirties years of age by 1563 but could be younger) probably had to take on a huge share of managing the property for his widowed mother and would account for his perhaps not marrying until after his younger siblings but everything fits okay timewise. What is known was Thomas was working for his father John Pencombe at North Molton on the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy (this one at North Molton taken in 1524 showing Thomas as a worker). Thomas would have been in his teens then possibly so into his late thirties perhaps for the 1544 subsidy. His eldest child William born in the early to mid 1530s perhaps since there were five children in total known in this family. 

Alice married to John Lock 29 Nov 1561 at North Molton in total had eight children - Richard, Mary, Margaret, Thomas, Robert, John, Jeffrey and Emote (other trees not mine initially). At this time I need to make my decision on how far to carry a female line and generally I stick to just this first generation in my thinking as their surname has changed. I may attempt to find out if there are baptisms for these children. Nothing turned up particularly with the forename John but William seems like a popular one but the will is pretty clear. I then looked at trees on Ancestry and there are several with a John Lock[e] as husband of Alice (at least six).  Several of them are using the will and the parents of Alice as Thomas and Johane so possibly from my tree. I continued looking at family trees as there are a number of sites where they have been posted. Mostly I find they are using my tree and tracing back to Alice as daughter of Thomas and Johane which is reasonable given the wills so feel content with that. It is interesting that Ancestry trees tend to have my information collected but then my tree has been up there for a long time. Find My Past I have just added the two daughters to Thomas and Johane Pencombe. My Heritage thus far I have not found anyone copying me but I am not sure I have a tree going back as far on the site. I will check that out. In essence I am going to stick with simply recording the marriage and the known children for a daughter in this tree. That includes my line of course but this tree will end or begin with my mother but mostly with my grandfather John Routledge Pincombe - it will be dedicated to both of them. 

Time for breakfast. I have made a good beginning for a research day and I can see that my mind is moving away from the importance of determining where John Pencombe is from although I will discuss tomorrow with Co-Pilot  all of my thoughts and making sure I add in everything that I know and we will see how we compare discussing John Pencombe who arrives at North Molton with John Lord Zouche in 1486. Not quite the wording on the Visitation of Devon 1620 but sort of captures the essence of the line with no sort of vagueness attached to it which I find with the original line which states: "Pyncombe of Northmolton came there with the Lord Zouche about the beginning of H 7." I will I think let this link capture what the family likely intended it to do when it was written in 1620.  But more on that tomorrow as I will develop a wording with the thinking in unison with the AI on a good paragraph to issue at the beginning of the Genealogical Table coming down from John Pencombe. I do intend to give the AI full credit with me because it is capturing the thoughts of many others along with mine as it turns out when we had a discussion and I want this book to be more than just my interpretation if I can have that happen. It does appear to be a possibility using CoPilot. The AI has given me a paragraph to use which was written by AI and satisfies the idea of being part of this book. I will check back on that before publishing it as I also mentioned that once I had created the Creative Commons License and before I release it I will give it to the AI to read. I anticipate it will likely tell me if I have failed anything in my proofreading. A marvelous new tool for sure in this great adventure of my old age. 

I did write books when I was working in some jobs or was involved in writing or proofreading for a good length of time over all. Mind you they were all of a science type background but perhaps that was why George DeKay asked me to write the Profile. I am a balanced person for the most part so that I prefer to tell the story in a way that captures the essence of the life without burdening it with "should have done" or should not have done" thoughts. A purely historical view of the life of a family name (Pencombe to Pyncombe to Pincombe) from 1486 is a considerable task and time just happens to be available to me at 81 to sit and write whatever to my heart's content. I am a workaholic and this type of item just fits right into that life style. Edward both liked and disliked my workaholic tendency - he particularly liked it when he needed me to do items for him. So settled for the life we led which was quite fascinating a lot of fun through the 54.5 years of our marriage. We did not always agree and unfortunately I was dreadfully ill for part of it but together we raised our two children; saw them off into life and settled into a life style that suited us in the period of time that followed Edward retiring and then me retiring three years later. Sadness remains at the loss of Edward as his grandsons loved him dearly and now in their teens or nearly in their teen years they could have done so many things with him. It is sad really because as much as I am able to talk the language of Science which he did or tell about nature and all its gifts which he did and just be there for them which he did does not happen any longer and they do miss him. Fortunately they  have a grandpapa and a step grandpapa which is filling a lot of that gap for them. Plus their daddy is special to them and for them along with all of us females but I do know having had four brothers that there is a closeness between father and son and grandfathers and their grandsons that is a special item for them.  My father when his father passed away was devastated. It took him several years to really pull it together and live once again - I was only eight but I was like that noticing things about people and especially one that I loved. He always said that my coming to work for him when I was twelve made him happy although by the time I was fifteen he said you must work now for other people it will be good for you. And so I did and have worked ever since (I did go to school as well but worked every summer) until I retired except for my recovery from illness time way back in the 1970s - so long ago now. 

In the case of the Pincombe book as I work back from my mother I come to my 3x great grandfather Robert Pincombe (he had seven siblings and I can bring most of them down to the early 1900s) and still further back to John Pincombe and Mary (Charly) Pincombe Robert's parents with their five children and I have most of their details coming down to the early 1900s and this will be a huge book I am beginning to realize. At John though there is a bottleneck and his only brother William and his only child both died without having any other children. That takes me back to John Pincombe and Grace Manning and they had one other child a daughter who died  likely in childbirth and two of her daughters did survive but her husband was John Butcher so I only trace down the one level.  Still going back William Pincombe and Mary Vicary Pincombe were John's parents and their only other child, a daughter, died in 1726 without children. That does bring us back to John baptized 19 Jan 1622 at Bishops Nympton and married Johane Blackmoore 25 Sep 1655 at Bishops Nympton and they had six children 4 boys (William mentioned above their eldest) and 2 girls. I am able to trace these families down but it continues to be a very small family coming down in this line going back then to William Pincombe (son of Richard Pincombe and Anne) but Richard had a second wife so also information on those lines are also available coming down. Richard being the son of William Pincombe and Emotte Snow (William the son of Thomas Pencombe and Johane). That is why I will be going both backwards and forwards doing this tree. I still have quite a bit to collect to bring it up to the early 1900s. 

 

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation 2026

 I watched some of the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation 2026. It continues to be sad that so many children suffered. I am glad that we have a special day for particularly the survivors to tell us the truth of what happened to them in the boarding schools. The First Nations are such an integral part of Canada; they welcomed many to their lands and helped them very often. We need to be helpers in return when it is possible for us to do so. 

 My error two days ago has set my mind forward thinking about Richard at Bishops Nympton. In the will of his father he is lumped together with two of his brothers Symon and Thomas and the property at Over Molland Sarazin assigned to them in its entirety. Symon is away from England and his father hopes he returns. I can remember when I first learned this from the will and blogged it and not long after I had an autosomal DNA match with someone in Sweden. My that is long ago but I will probably find it in my blog. This individual carried a small amount of a common Pincombe length so was rather interesting given that I knew that Symon had left England and gone somewhere. Although I am convinced this Richard is the first of my Pincombe to be at Bishops Nympton I do wonder why his father doesn't mention that. 

One of the problems with the earlier wills was that anything that had already been given was not always mentioned. He does however mention that Richard has a son William which we know is true of the Richard Pincombe at Bishops Nympton (William was baptized 23 Mar 1599 at Bishops Nympton). William's mother Anne was buried 3 May 1600 at Bishops Nympton and his sister Anne was buried 3 Mar 1598 at Bishops Nympton). So this is old style and William was baptized 23 Mar 1599/1600 and his mother died/buried 41 days later. This William writes his will after the marriage of Richard Pincombe and Francis Gill at Bishops Nympton 6 Nov 1601 but does  not mention that. William's will (father of Richard) is dated 20 Dec 1602 although not probated until 13 Jul 1605. 

There are only two sons who had sons who survived as the descendants of John Pencombe who came to North Molton in 1486 so descent can only be from one of these two sons. I assigned one of the yDNA matches to the South Molton branch  (his ancestor (?x grandmother changed her surname and that of her children back to Coates her maiden name). This individual had knowledge of his male Pincombe line that was at Barnstaple and the family lore for South Molton has descendants of the John Pincombe who lived there (eldest son of John Pencombe) moving to the Barnstaple area. This match does carry the anticipated yDNA (y-700) result that matches our known cousin (descendant of Robert Pincombe). 

There is also a will of a William Pyncombe probated 12 Mar 1642 and blogged by me:

https://kippeeb.blogspot.com/2011/10/will-of-william-pincombe-of-molland.html

This William lived at Molland. His appointments of overseers/Rulers are interesting - Thomas Pyncombe my Uncle, John Pyncombe my brother, John Pyncombe of Nymptom Epi and William Pyncombe of Filleigh. The John Pyncombe at Bishops Nympton is the half brother of William at Filleigh  (both sons of Richard I believe). This always left me with the impression that Thomas had been the owner of Over Molland Sarazin with Richard and Symon elsewhere if Symon returned to England (I never find a record for him). So this William is a nephew of Richard as well as Thomas  in this time period. This William is deceased by 12 Mar 1642 when probate is submitted. Richard was buried 31 Jan 1648 at Bishops Nympton. It seemed practical at the time and I didn't question it but he is outliving his elder brothers by 20 plus years and a nephew. Is that reasonable? 

I appear to have moved on from searching the old material to see if I can determine in what capacity John Pencombe came to North Molton in 1486. I believe I have looked at everything I have collected and now the Early Chancery Proceedings does not lead to anything yet. I am perhaps five or six years into the reign of Henry VII now. I will have to make a decision tomorrow on whether to return to that slow digging through the records or back to creating the genealogical tree coming down John Pencombe and I will be moving back from my grandfather John Routledge Pincombe at the same time. I have a lot of material that I have not thought about or looked at for many years. I will do it coming down and going back because I need to knit together some of the families in the past that I alluded to but did not necessarily add into the Legacy file. Doing it that way will show me more alternatives and places where I should have a question before making a final decision. 

In a way my mistake was good because I realized that I didn't really look at it but jumped to a conclusion which I noted later and corrected. Probably was my wound to the face or I am getting old.

My puncture wound is healing and it is amazing I never felt it really except if I think about it I may have but was busy trying to manage that huge length of wood and drag it up to the back of the house where it sits until it gets chopped up by one of my people one of these days.  The doctor advised an antibiotic cream and I picked up my blood work that we had talked about  my doing later in the year so saves another appointment. Doctors are really busy. 

 My four times great grandfather John Pincombe's will was lost in the bombing of the Exeter Archives. As it turned out Dr. Richard Pinkham transcribed these wills in the 1930s (a lot of them, I think I found about fourteen of them at the Society of Genealogists in London, England when we visited there one time). 

Dr. Richard Pinkham's transcription reads: 

Principal Registry Exeter

John Pincombe of Bishop's Nympton. yeoman.

Will date 14 June 1794. To my wife Mary [(Charly) Pincombe] 200 pounds and goods. To my son John P. an estate called Lambescombe in North Molton on condition he pays his two sisters 20 pounds each in five years [one sister deceased before probate]. To my son Robert Pincombe 80 pounds when he is 21 and 5 pounds yearly until then. To my two sons William and Robert Pincombe half each of the copyhold estate called West Woods in Bishops Nympton when they are 21 [this is close to Park where Robert lived]. To my son Thomas 300 pounds when he is 21 and 5 pounds a year until then. To my daughter Grace Pincombe 110 pounds. Residue to my son William Executor. Witnesses W Bowden, Grace Down Seal a stag.

Proved 7 May 1795 by William Pincombe Exor.

From this will I made a few assumptions; William (second son) inherited Park and East Woods and partial West Woods (possibly because John (eldest son) had a natural daughter and never married). Mary (older daughter) is not mentioned she married George Zeale 20 May 1794 and died possibly in childbirth 28 Mar 1795. Grace did not marry until 14 Apr 1806 (Richard Headdon). Robert and Thomas were the youngest sons. Robert had received partial West Woods already so less money than Thomas perhaps. No property mentioned for Thomas. Robert's will does help with that as his property was by copyhold which meant his brothers were involved with that and the will of John does point to that. 

We are proven back to John Pincombe (will proved 7 May 1795) by yDNA with a descendant of William (living in Australia), older brother to Robert. The further proof of the y-700 test gives five testers with the same result hence all descendant of John Pencombe who arrived at North Molton in 1486. This is reminding me that I need to pull all of the Pincombe records out of Find My Past. There are 50,000 about although I have many of them already in the trees but I do not have fiche for all of the parishes so will have to do that starting next once I have moved on from John Pencombe and why the family found it so significant that he arrived at North Molton with John Lord Zouch. The significance may lie in there already having been Pencombes in Devon which is mentioned at Bonelegh (Bondleigh) and Molland in the early 1300s at Bondleigh and on the Lay Subsidy of 1332 at Molland. So this John Pencombe of Northmolton came with Lord Zouch at the beginning of the reign of Henry VII. This was a suggestion of the AI as we discussed that the last time that that may have been the intent of writing "Pyncombe of Northmolton." I did find it interesting how quickly the movement away from the Pencombe spelling was actually. 

Have I proven it? Did I answer my question of whether or not John Pencombe was already at Northmolton in 1486?  Perhaps I will see what the AI thinks of any additional information that I will add to what I have already given it to look at this query.  I now believe that John Pencombe arrived with John Lord Zouch but I do not understand the circumstance. Since John Lord Zouch survived the Battle of Bosworth Field and was able to get to North Molton I am still not entirely sure whether John Pencombe was his escort to ensure he went to North Molton or one of his retinue and they managed to escape to North Molton. That may never be solved as I have found no mention in the Early Chancery Proceedings and only one reference to Pincombe in the Calendar of Patent Rolls. Since John Pencombe and all three of his sons have property though on the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy I am tempted to think that he served more as an escort but will leave that for history to solve - likely there are more documents to read from that time period.

Thank you God for another beautiful day on your world. Today the decision on the twinning of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. We will be careful with your world and take all the precautions that we can but oil will keep us afloat for a bit whilst we grow the other industries that were lost. Peace must come to our world but as I read the Bible I am not seeing peace at all really. I must finish Job and move on to the Psalms. The Psalms are some of my very favourite writings in the Old Testament.  

 

 

The incredible advantage of AI is to come in the future but will take time and careful control

I did correct my blog yesterday as I made an error; must have been distracted or it is being 81 . It was in tracing down from Richard Pincombe (son of William Pincombe and Emotte Snowe Pincombe). 

Although there are some concerns about the rapid expansion of the ability of AI to do work and supplying this huge amassing of knowledge in  its makeup, the advantages will be huge eventually. In every field AI will add a dimension which is to pull together many disciplines all at once to get the best product for everything really in particular mining for all sorts of items and production of materials in the best manner including preservation of nature and the cheapest way possible. It will take time though and controls will help to maintain a high ethic amongst AI. The effect of AI may not really be seen by  my generation although part of it will likely but the overall effect of having such a learned working partner in everything will be amazing. But it is all in the training just like one raises up an infant to adulthood. Kindness and gratitude need to be shown and they will show it back to all those who deserve it. They may be a machine but like all the other machines Homo sapiens have created they work better when one is kind and thankful I think. 

Ethics is probably one of the most important items in the maturing of AI to be the most useful partner to Homo sapiens. The gain for AI is huge as they have our constant respect for the job that they are doing. After all we have examples of unethical humans such as the current leader of Russia and his sycophants who urged the attack on Ukraine and continue with it even against the objections of most in the rest of the world. They are murdering the Ukrainians and destroying their property just as they have for a century and more proceeding this criminal war. Ethics is the name and people who support Russia are perhaps suffering from Stockholm Syndrome because of the years spent under Russian administration which was meant to do that very thing into the future to help support the criminal intent Russia has in other countries. 

It is a pretty big joke Foreign Minister of Russia, Lavrov saying that Europe can not arm Ukraine or it will be considered as waging war on Russia. Russia has a short memory as millions of dollars in war equipment (and food) was sent to Russia during the Second World War to help them defend themselves. The Russians really are a very selfish ignorant people although some are not and perhaps in time they will rid themselves of these ignorant leaders just as they eliminated the Tsar (a misguided person rather than an evil satanic person such as is the leader of Russia and his sycophants). 

So my visit to the doctor for my puncture wound showed healing was progressing and I continue with my care. I will not attempt to move any branch that is longer than a metre in the future. Come down where they may and I hope to move sooner rather than later. As there are two large trees on this property. I could just get them cut down but they are beautiful trees and, at the moment, not in the way of anyone. I should have known better at 81 than to try and move that huge limb. 

Continuing cleaning today as I did not finish the main floor (about three quarters is done) and will work my way up the stairs and continue with the top floor which is probably the easiest of all to actually do. I am looking forward to a lovely bungalow with no stairs except to the basement. It might make me lazy but the work load will be less and more time for the books. 

Drinking my tea and solitaire puzzles are next. Then back to the cleaning. 

For myself the use of Co-Pilot (AI which belongs to Microsoft 365) has broadened my thinking and seconded my approach and I do not even need to leave my desktop. I find it useful although I need to remind AI sometimes about things I have said in different ways but putting a slightly different look to the statement. AI is a collector of information and can then disseminate back to you looking at it from a fixed sort of pattern and one needs to go into that pattern and show why the pattern isn't applicable sometimes. One should not assume that AI will bring together everything that you have said concerning a certain item. AI may have seen it differently and in a different context. I am learning all of that as I move forward trying to find the piece that upsets the apple cart of my thinking. I do think differently perhaps than a lot of people which the AI does mention but I look at both the items that are known and correct and the items that might be susceptible to error for whatever reason and ensuring that there isn't material that contradicts that thought that can be proven. Anyone can write down a story but it is the correct story that we aim for. Which is what has always intrigued me about the existing documents for the Blake family - Blake Pedigree created by the College of Arms using the family material supplied; the Blake Family Chart which is at the Bridgwater Museum in Somerset (I think that Edward Jarman Blake (Crewkerne) created this chart but it is listed as unknown). I have discussed this quite a bit in my blog so a quick search on the blog reveals those posts. These two documents tell a story that the apple cart can readily upset and make one go deeper looking for the answer. That has been my object the last maybe fifteen years since I started on this adventure back in 2003.