A starlit night

 What a beautiful view out the window at 4:00 a.m. The stars are blazing in the sky. God's view of the earth is perfect on this clear night. All Hallows Eve which precedes All Saints Day and what a perfect sky to behold. 

Woke up contemplating the why of my writing two books and came to one surprising reason as my writing the Blake book has always been for my grandfather Samuel George Blake. Born in England in 1875 he grew up in Upper Clatford hearing about his Blake family which had lived at Andover and before that at Knights Enham in Old Hall - he clearly remembered the name of the house where his ancient grandparent had lived back in the early to mid 1500s - Nicholas Blake of Old Hall who left his will in 1547. He was of Enham he said in his will. So that one was easy and takes no contemplation on my part. But the other book never really settled on an individual other than my mother wanted to write a book about her Pincombe family but really in my mind I now realize that it was all about the grandfather I didn't know as he died in 1925 when my mother was just eight years of age. She mourned him all of her life I do believe although had begun once again to live in her early teens when she became a Girl Guide and made such wonderful friends at that time. So really this book is all about John Routledge Pincombe - really the saddest person I have learned about in all my life in many ways. Coming to that conclusion in the middle of the night as I very often do actually do was not surprising; it was always sitting there at the base of my brain waiting to be discovered. I shall do my best grandfather that I knew and loved so well and grandfather that I never knew personally but his very being breaths within me because I am half Pincombe/Gray and that 25% give or take Pincombe is my heritage from that very grandfather. We share, my cousins and I, some unique areas in the chromosomes which is fascinating in itself. That is the gift of DNA and it will keep on giving through these centuries ahead as we learn more and more about each individual gene that contributes to who we are. 

In creating us God made us a product of those thousands of people way back into the past who contributed to the person we are today. Thank you God for another gift to us from you. 

Yesterday some work on both books but now I will set aside the Pincombe book until the document I ordered comes to me and then back to Pincombe once again. Having walked the grounds of St Mary the Virgin Bishops Nympton Anglican Church and feeling a closeness there because from early childhood the place name Bishops Nympton grounded me to the earth and attached me to the lines of my past. But am I actually interested in genealogy. Not like some people who live and breath genealogy; for me it is a research trip into the past collecting which is collectable and postulating possibilities on just how particular unlinked individuals fit into the pattern. Then there are the missing links that seem obvious to me but finding the proofs difficult. Those are the links that someone may pick up in the future as more and more documents are transcribed from this exciting period of the life of mankind in the Pincombe sphere hundreds of years ago. But as I slowly draw inward and quiet in my 82nd year, my energies will now go entirely to writing those books and then moving on to the next project which really must be to redo the index in the Siderfin books and add in the new information that I have located. An update to that revision of my cousin James Sander's book on the Siderfin family of his mother Elizabeth (Siderfin) Sanders. He did an excellent job of collecting up all that information that he put into his almost 50 page book and produced enough copies to spread it around the world to his cousins in America, in New Zealand and Australia and Canada. Thank you James for your work. He said he wasn't a genealogist in his foreword. I have taken the course work and passed the course work but am I truly interested in genealogy? 

I suppose in some ways I am which is a product of old age mostly I think rather than the kind of driven interest that my husband had from childhood looking for his father in everything around him. I will always remember when he found the only picture that exists of his father holding Edward as a one to two year old in a family picture with his mother and older brother as well. The excitement was wondrous to observe as he looked and gazed at that picture that had sat at the bottom of his mother's hope chest hidden under a loose piece of wood face down. Possibly it had not been out of that chest since it was put in all those years ago when Edward was a small child living on the farm with his family before the loss of his father.  

 

I was very happy to share that moment in time with him when he was 67 years of age. It took him a while to go through the Hope Chest - but suddenly he did that the couple of months before we went to Europe the first time together in 2008. He was a genealogist (his research skills finely honed by his years in science research and it was good to see him working away at that); the desire to be searching into the past was in his veins (and his research skills as a scientist found a new place to do good work). With me, it is just a desire to write the book my grandfather Blake wanted and the book about the Pincombe family that my mother wanted. But discovering it was really also about my maternal grandfather to me was a surprise I think in the middle of the night contemplating. 

Coming from a small village Edward did not have a chapter there as far as I know for the Ontario Genealogical Society and University kept him pretty busy working through his bachelors and then PhD and then an MLS but he worked with one of the people in  his village on a number of items including the Story of Princeton revising an original copy (a Mrs. Williamson who was known to him from his young childhood). When we settled where we are now Edward did look at the Society I must admit but I was not to be persuaded to go (my time with our young daughter was special and I wasn't going to miss a moment of it). However his cousin had been attending for a while I guess (no idea on that) but he asked Edward to come with him to a meeting and so they did and Edward loved the entire idea and spent the next fourty years as a member of this group until he passed away actually. But this cousin and Edward used to pour over all these Kipp documents that Edward had accumulated. Can not remember now how long but it was before our second was born as I vaguely recall but it was very early in 1980 so a year or two actually. I was never part of those discussions for sure - I always stayed away from genealogy. Perhaps it reminded me of my grandparents that I truly loved and grieved in a child's way and just avoided such types of activity as they had both talked about their families although primarily my grandfather. Sometimes I think that as a much older adult into my mid 60s when I took up the mantle of the Pincombe Profile that I came much closer to letting that grief turn into beautiful memories. One could feel the desire to remember again all that these two people had said when I was a young child. I think that might be one of the really great values of genealogy; the continuance of life albeit in a different way. The very act of testing one's DNA is a life beyond death act in a way as I think about my siblings who have passed but I still have that little bit of them stored up in databases that I can think about whenever I am doing DNA work.  

Must get back to bed and have an hour or so more of sleep. Going to bed at 9 gives me that freedom to wake up in the middle of the night and work away for an hour or so and then back for another hour or two before waking up in this beautiful new morning in God's world. He asks so little in return for what He has given us - Love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. Thank you God for Your love through the ages.  

 

 

Continuing research days

 Thinking back again on where I was with the Blake family of Andover; it seems like ages ago that I was working on the Blake family. I think my first step is to look at the UK Archives and see if there is anything that I can purchase to help me with this supposition I have suggested that Robert Blake who left his will in 1521 at Enham had a third son - he mentions Richard and Thomas but I am suggesting he had a third son possibly Robert who was married to Jone Blake who left her will in 1527 naming her children Robert, Nicholas and Elizabeth. 

Cold weather moving in and I can hibernate  now for the winter (just going out for food once a week or every two weeks or so) although must clear away the leaves from that walnut tree as they poison the grass and garden area. The only task I have to do is my blood work when my daughter is here at Christmas. It is nice having so few commitments for sure; I do not have to go anywhere or do anything outside of the house all winter long except shovel the porch and patio area - lovely. I could pay them to do that but the fresh air and exercise is good for me.

A review of the Hampshire Archives does not appear to bring up anything useful with regard to Robert Blake (Blayke) who left his will in 1521. His son Richard left his will in 1522 and probated in 1522. Some researchers have suggested that this Robert had a brother  but I do not get the sense of that from Robert's will. That idea put forward to account for family lines perhaps no ideas on that. 

I am still thinking that the generational tree will begin with Robert Blake (will dated 1521). Going back further may have to wait for another researcher tracing this family back in time.  So I am committed to proceeding further starting with Robert as Generation one. Not much is known about him including the name of his wife (there used to be a reference to a will for Maude Blake but it has disappeared so will not include that thought in this tree). I do think I will put in my postulation of a son possibly called Robert as the husband of Jone Blake. She does not identify her husband in the will. 

 Using Robert's, Richard's and Jone's will I will create the second generation and third and all of their wills as available. The wills really are very handy to have and you feel that with the Pincombe study. It is good to be back with the Blake family for a bit as I wait for the Inheritance Dispute document to be copied. 

The Blake Newsletter I did publish the other day and it is now time for the H11 Newsletter which I will work on early in the week. It is only a two page at most because I only report on any new research I find. The new mitochondrial tree is  much better at giving earlier details to people as I did not wish to intrude on any of my members of the group by too deep recording of facts in a newsletter. 

Solitaire puzzles to do.

I got a bit distracted by a study on the Barnes Ice Cap and the theory that the next Ice Age has been delayed/eliminated due to the greenhouse effect of global warming. However it wasn't expected for another 50,000 years anyway so I guess time might ameliorate this occurring phenomenon in the history of the world. Some of this research is truly amazing. 

My 30 minute run and my lunch all accomplished and back to the Generational Tree. Working on Generation 1 and 2 for Blake. I must remember to put my note up on the door that I am working and please do not disturb. It does tend to stay there for days which is true as I work every day on the books although do fit in the cleaning. Love the winter; so much working time.  

I have had people say I should write up my life story but that doesn't interest me particularly; I am actually a very private person! I never would have gotten to genealogy without my cousins and the desire of one cousin to have the Pincombe Profile for the Westminster Township-Delaware Township History Book (Middlesex County, Ontario). Although it is true I found DNA very intriguing but without the added push from my cousin to have that profile it is dubious that I would have ever gotten to it (but again that was my mother's push as she was curious about DNA probably from going to the Family History Library). She thought one of her grandmothers was Irish and of course asked me if DNA could prove that so I said with lots of data from all around you can prove a lot of things. My desire on what to do when I retired (planned for 2010 actually but a torn rotator cup caused me to retire two years early). No regrets on that as I wanted to travel and our first trip planned forever it appeared was to England where I had been corresponding with my cousin Ivan Kent for years. My mother gave his address to my husband when she wanted him to write a book to commemorate the wedding anniversary of herself and my dad at 50 years. I ended up corresponding with Ivan and doing the research but Edward did do parts of the book. Our correspondence then carried on until he passed away in 2010. My doing the Anniversary Book was not that I was interested actually I was not but they wanted it so it seemed like a good idea to do it. After all I was only proofreading/copyediting 40 to 50 hours in those days and had plenty of time since the girls were both in school! But my mother never realized how many hours I worked and I didn't tell her.  Then there was all of that volunteering and in that period a secretary had been hired at Edward's United Church thank goodness, but I was still volunteer Treasurer at Bitobi for a while yet but that book took up so much time I said to Edward I really need to retire as Treasurer and I did. Edward planned the Bitobi weekends for the Church and that always seemed to take up my time. I am actually putting the pictures from all those weekends into an envelope which I will mail to the Church at some point in case they want some pictures for their 2028 50th Anniversary at least I assume they will have one. Still busy anyway, I liked to help at the children's schools one day a week so I had little free time. Edward encouraged me with genealogy because he wanted me to get into genealogy (I had always told him I would help which I did with his lines but was not going to do my genealogy) that would take another twenty years nearly. My plans on retirement were to knit baby clothes for the First Nations in the north and sew clothes for babies to help out. That was always my intention and I have not even touched a set of knitting needles since my children were young and then some knitting for the grandchildren but sewing it is over 20 years since I sewed (except for mending). So genealogy has certainly turned me away from what was my big interest. Another trip down memory lane as my brain just needs a rest for a few days I think and generally on Sunday I do not do any research. 

 

 

 

 

Finally a research day

Today will be principally a research day. Just a few hits now left in the search at Find My past looking at results for "Pencombe" all variations between births from 1480 to  1560. It did pull out a lot of information but seemed to miss some items so will do searches on the lines pulled out now. Some agreement with the Charts here and there. I will do some searches in existing trees to see what emerges. My own tree has not actually been up on the system that long so should not see a strong effect there but we will see. The real question is can this be done with so much information destroyed in the bombing of the Exeter Registery Office in 1942. A lot of the land records fortunately are still available which is the basis often enough of the sort in the 1500s. The 1600s have a different problem with the Cromwell period and a change from the Church maintaining the records to the municipal level. I am seeing somewhat less of that being a factor as compared to the Hampshire records at that time though I must admit. Further from London perhaps so the rules were not quite so strictly maintained, a thought anyway. 

Having the proof back to John Pincombe and Mary Charly is handy. Plus the transcription of John's will by Dr Richard Pinkham prior to the wills being destroyed also very lucky. Being able to clearly prove that the parents of this John were John Pincombe and Grace Manning would be a plus. Not having contributors to the Bishops Nympton page is a drawback perhaps but the land records may still solve that problem. Interesting that John mentions a property in North Molton but the distance between all of these places in North Devon is quite small. According to the AI the straight line distance is four to five miles.  We traveled this road in 2008 from North Molton to Bishops Nympton. 

I do plan on getting back to Blake today and will begin with what I know about the Blake families at Enham and review that first and second generation information in the Legacy file. The wills are abundant in this family at that time and very helpful. I postulated that Robert (left his will in 1521) had a third son deceased who was married to Joane Blake widow at Enham who also left a will naming her three children Robert, Nicholas and Elizabeth.  That would have given the Robert (will 1521) three sons namely unknown, Richard and Thomas. Sometimes the simplest method is the logical path and Joane was definitely married to a Blake and all of them are at Enham in this time frame. Robert's sons Richard and Thomas both left wills to help in this as well Joane's sons Robert and Nicholas also fortuitously left wills to aid this process. I shall review them today and make sure I have gleaned everything possible from the wills. 

Middle of the night and I woke up so decided to look a bit at my day ahead. Back to sleep.  

Morning, how nice and probably about seven hours sleep. Plenty of sleep but broken up by a 2.5 hour period of awake. My mind is restless and it shows. I have lived with that all of my days as long as I can remember. As a child I used to wake up and wander the house and discovered that my father did the same thing. Anyway tonight I will sleep better I always say to  myself and we will see. At least I get enough sleep. 

Thinking of John Pincombe and Mary Charly and whether I can prove that John Pincombe and Grace Manning were John's parents. One possible clue is the naming of their daughters Mary the eldest daughter and Grace the younger daughter.  It seems easy but how common was the name Grace; that is my curiosity. My mother was convinced that John Pincombe and Grace Manning were the names of this John's parents. What do I know about them. John Pincombe was born and baptized 12 Jul 1692 at Bishops Nympton and he was married to Grace Manning 20 Mar 1725 at Bishops Nympton. Grace was baptized 20 Jun 1693 at Bishops Nympton and buried 27 Jul 1765 at Bishops Nympton. The eldest child of John and Grace Pincombe was William and he married Grace Smyth at North Molton 13 Jun 1758. Their only child was also William baptized 31 May 1759 at Bishops Nympton. Unfortunately this William (son of William (1727) was buried 26 Dec 1780 at Bishops Nympton (no descendants). His father William Pincombe was buried 7 Dec 1783 at Bishops Nympton and Grace his wife was buried 3 Apr 1783 at Bishops Nympton. At that point in time 26 Dec 1780 when the son William died John would have inherited any property in that family either right away or when his brother was deceased but I suspect that they would have started the changeover at this time - I need to look at the UK Archives and see if there was any paperwork that survived. 

John married Mary Charly 8 Nov 1767 at Bishops Nympton when he was 39 years of age; his older brother John had married at 31 years of age. 

William and John also had a sister Grace who married John Butcher 31 Mar 1755 at Bishops Nympton and she was 23 years of age. She died five months after her infant son 16 Jun 1763 leaving behind two daughters (Mary her second daughter died as a young child). Her daughters were named Grace, Mary and Mary. So a true alignment of naming for sure and one is certainly tempted to think that my mother was correct with remembering the names of John Pincombe's parents. 

Since John and Mary (Charly) Pincombe named their daughter Grace before their sister in law Grace passed away but after John's mother passed away it does seem reasonable that his mother was named Grace. But I will keep tentative in my mind although it does seem very significant this naming. 

At this point in the trace back I was thinking of what my cousin had said after she talked to an individual at the College of Arms who said (and I agree having transcribed the parish registers of Bishops Nympton) that the Pincombe families at Bishops Nympton were principally descendant of John Pincombe and Jane/Johane Blackmoore who had married John Pincombe 25 Sep 1655 at Bishops Nympton. In total they had six children - William, Johan, Wilmote, John, Thomas, Hugh. All survived to adulthood with the exception of John who died at 13 years of age. The naming of the daughters interesting (they were twins actually) Johan and Wilmote. I spent quite a while sorting out the descendants of these children. In between John married to Johan Blackmoore and John married to Grace Manning was a period of 70 years. I examined all the Pincombe marriages in this time period and the best fit I felt was William Pincombe married to Mary Vicary. This William had inherited the titles to the property as the eldest and it does show in the records. Again it does not agree with the chart that Galen Pinkham and Dr Richard Pinkham produced. But it was partly choosing John Pincombe of Knowstone that was the difference. I could not find anything about a John Pincombe of Knowstone and that continues to this day. When I pick this up again I will be working from Richard Pincombe married to Anne (unknown) and Frances Gill and their children as part of that fourth and fifth generation. That will be when I have purchased the document that I have asked to be paged. It is done already, very fast. I have ordered the six pages and we will see what it gives in terms of the heirs of John Pincombe at South Molton. Some of the pages are damaged but they always do the best that can be done. 

My plan today is to work on Blake although I will complete the ten hits in the search that I still have to do just to leave that a completed search. But I wanted to relate into my blog why I did not agree with the chart for my line at Bishops Nympton. 

Out for groceries and this week $95 because I did not buy chicken as I could only find 12 pieces the last time I bought. So really because I am still eating four of those pieces it is in fact $100 which is pretty much where I sit most weeks. So not too bad actually although it is a third more than I paid just under two years ago. Definitely we have inflation. 

Time for my run and then lunch and back to research. 

I completed the 245 hits for the search on Find My Past. Some of them were very interesting. A lot of them were entered into Legacy as unlinked. 

Today the local High School did their pickup for the Food Bank. I had forgotten that last year I put a bin out upside down and the parcel of food in a bag on top of that in the laneway so you could see it from the street as our porch is not visible from the street. I will do it that way again next year if I am here. As I saw the car going by doing the pickup with children running after it so called out to let them know there was one on the porch. But it was confusing probably as one young fellow picked up the bag and carried it to the car but I guess they wanted to check to make sure they  had picked it up. Very polite young boys around the age of my grandsons. Was good as I would have had to take it to the school tomorrow which would take away from my research time. I should put that on the calendar to put it on a crate in the laneway next year if I am here. 

Finished with Pincombe for a bit and will be working on Blake tomorrow. A little bit done today mostly thinking about my process as it is different for this family. I will start with Robert who left his will in 1521 but there will be some documents that I can purchase and I will work on that as well because it does a little while. If I am able to go back before Robert it is easily changed so not a problem. 

I have a number of emails to reply to; the work is never ending and for a workaholic that is probably a good spot to be in.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Third cleaning day of the week

It is the third cleaning day of the week and the top floor today. Will start in a couple of hours since my vacuum is very very noisy. Looking forward to a vacuum made in Canada but must admit I have not shopped for one so have no idea. Eventually I will get a new vacuum.

Worked on some of the search results on Find My Past and will continue with that today along with planning my research on Blake starting tomorrow. I interrupted the steady progression through the 245 results of the search with small searches looking at the lines rather than just one result after another basically unrelated. I did bring together another set that worked well as there are a number of unlinked results in the overall Legacy file. 

I continued working with the Charts from the earlier researchers Galen Pinkham and Dr Richard Pinkham, Galen was American and Richard British so a good working team for sure. The Bishops Nympton page as I really have a close look at it is mostly unlinked or has linking for a couple of generations. The John at Knowstone said to be the father of John married to Jane Blackmoore continues down in the John line to William Pincomb married to Mary Vicary with their marriage 17 Jun 1685 at Bishops Nympton with Mary being from Rose Ash. I plan today to look at the Registers at Knowstone for a bit. 

As I enter another winter I see myself staying here for a while yet not so much the downsizing as that is happening quickly but rather I want to move but where is the question and I have not yet found a solution to that. Nor am I seeking one to be honest. I just take the days one at a time. Another winter and my favourite season by far. I do wonder where I will be at with the books by spring. 

Solitaire puzzles and cleaning next. 

Was thinking about God and how He has ruled our lives. He gave so much and asked so little after Jesus came and told us the two new commandments - Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbour as yourself. Simple and peace would be with us if everyone followed the rules. Still reading the Psalms and there are 150 of them so will take a while; I am not half way yet. 

Taking a break and dusting and then scrubbing the bathroom and washing the floors follows all of that. Then I am finished for another week. I actually do not mind cleaning; it gives me a long period to think about items whilst I work away. 

I never really looked at the Charts so closely before and I can see that my line is broken up whereas I have it all linked but only on the basis of what my mother remembered. And she herself said beyond John Pincombe and Mary Charly it was somewhat vague in her memory but she told me what she thought was her father's memory. So that is handy. Certainly all those people exist which is not a bad starting point. Moving further back was very difficult when I did it so I am content to now try working forward and see if I can prove that backward push. It will likely involve ordering a number of papers that I do not have; I do have quite a few that I photographed for Pincombe in  Devon. This one I am waiting for is really the beginning and it may or may not help me with the descendants of John at South Molton. We will see. 

I have to say John Pincombe's will in 1795 transcribed by Dr Richard Pinkham was a gift as it is gone in the bombing of the Exeter Registry Office. The will transcription itself is not the full will. 

SOG abstract information

This information from the Principal Registry Exeter.

John Pincombe of Bishops Nympton
John Pincombe, proved (at Exeter CC) 7 May 1795

John Pincombe of Bishops Nympton, yeoman
Will dated 14 Jun 1794
To my wife Mary £200 & goods

To my son John P. an estate called c in North Molton
on condition he pays his two sisters £20 each in five years 

To my son Robert Pincombe £ 80 when he is 21 & £ 5 yearly until then

To my two sons William & Robert Pincombe half each of
 the copyhold estate called West Wood in Bishops Nympton when
they are 21

To my son Thomas £ 300 when he is 21 and £ 5 a year until then

To my daughter Grace Pincombe £ 110


Residue to my son William Executor


Witnesses W. Bowden, Grace Down


Seal (a stag)


Proved 7 May 1795 by William Pincombe Executor

What made this significant was the names, the properties named. Perhaps he wrote this will because his daughter Mary had just died in childbirth a couple of months earlier. She is not mentioned in this transcript. He does not have any grandchildren although he is 66 years of age. He was almost 40 years of age when he married. According to my traceback he was the second son in a family of  two males and one female. His older brother William was deceased as was the son of this William namely William. The property West Wood was mentioned in Robert's will (my 3x great grandfather). It was interesting to see he still held property in North Molton and I tried to use that thought when I was tracing back. Since this was a positive match including a descendant of William the second son who lived in Australia and shared the same yDNA as the line coming down from Robert I was very comfortable with this fit plus the name Charly quite stuck in my mother's mind and the will verifies this is Robert's father. 

 So basically I will be looking for the properties named West Wood, East Wood and Park when I am making all these connections coming forward. But people moved from one property to another often enough. So may not be a definitive answer.

Time for lunch and then dusting and scrubbing.  

A break before dusting and I will have a look at the research hits on Find My Past.  

I have about ten left to do and will finish them up later or tomorrow. I do think though I shall examine some of the trees and see what people who actually live in England have. Never did that before. 

Next spring I shall get a company to do the yards. That will eliminate all of that outside work. I have a few items that I need repaired at some point; no rush but staying here sounds like a good plan for me. Just have to keep having jobs that I can no longer do get out-sourced. Inside is fine unless I break bones or something. The stairs are good exercise. 

Up to Psalm 90 now and this has been a wondrous trip down memory lane as I sang in the Choir for quite a few years in childhood and youth and the Psalms were always such a beautiful piece of music in my Anglican Church that I attended my entire life until Edward and I got married and then we went to Metropolitan United in downtown London near where we lived actually and he had attended that Church before we were married.  I used to go sometimes to early service at my home Anglican Church before we moved away from London as my father always went to that service and it was fun to do that. 

If I should survive so long when my daughter retires and returns we will move somewhere else. But it is fun waking up every day in the house where my children were little, then off to school and then out in the world working. The memory of them is everywhere and I enjoy working in that memory stream for sure. I think my older daughter is more relaxed now as my health has bounded back and she is not worried about me so much anymore plus my younger daughter is now closer to me. 

 

 

Main floor cleaning

Yesterday I made a decision after working most of the day on Pincombe to move to Blake today. I need to decide what I am doing so will spend a little time working on that. However, I may continue with my Pincombe hits at Find My Past just to complete that project. I am missing some items though it appears so will have to review how I am doing this drawing out of the 50,000 items on Pincombe. I can see that if I work on lines that I get more data so will contemplate that a little as well. Hopefully I will soon hear about the document that I want to have scanned at the UK Archives. 

The earlier researchers Galen Pinkham and Dr Richard Pinkham linked the line of John Pincombe and Jane Blackmore back to a John Pincombe of Knowstone giving John a number of siblings namely Mary, Elizabeth, Emotte, Rose and William all born between 1629 and 1641. Interestingly speaking with a cousin who had spoken with the College of Arms about the Pincombe family at Bishops Nympton said that the descendants in Bishops Nympton were predominantly from this family and the Parish Registers certainly show that to be very much the case having transcribed the entire set of them. The Bishops Nympton Chart does not have any Acknowledgements so has been put together from the records I am assuming as there are more dates on this chart than others. Since the line from Knowstone does not include John Pincombe married to Grace Manning I do not agree with it and have stayed with the line as my mother remembered it. But I will also be proving my own line as I work through it since I have simply stayed with her thoughts on it. I need to learn more about Knowstone though and how a Pincombe ended up there especially as one of the daughter's names is Emotte. William Pincombe and Emotte Snow likely married around 1564 and the John Pincombe at Knowstone would have married around the mid 1620s. My suspicion is that Dr. Richard Pinkham did not know where to place John Pincombe married to Jane Blackmoore and this family at Knowstone was handy. I used the land records from the 1700s to help me but now I will review all of that coming forward from John Pencombe (1486). I will use the Living DNA Pincombe matches as well to see if any trees that they might have on Find My Past might assist if they have always lived in England. What I do remember is that they always lived at Bishops Nympton back into the late 1500s as that was another memory my mother had which was why I moved back to Richard who had a son William and was mentioned in his father's will (William Pincombe married to Emotte Snowe). So we will see because she was only eight when her father died and they moved into the City of London away from close family as most of them stayed on the Pincombe farms around London. 

I went and voted yesterday and it was a nice walk (had my rain suit and it works very well). I think I have had that rain suit for about fifty or more years actually. It isn't like you wear one that often and mostly it was camping when I wore it. I did love camping for sure and canoeing. It was great fun especially in the northern woods; north of Sault Ste Marie was generally where we went  When you are there you get a sense of the magnificence of God in our world as you look around at the wondrous surroundings of Northern Ontario.  I did give the canoe away to a First Nations family in the north a few years ago and they had two young children so I know they are enjoying that cedar strip canoe. It was a beauty. A person I know does a lot of work with her people (First Nations) and has been very helpful with my giving such items away. 

Still reading the Psalms and they are wondrous. When I sang in the Choir in my childhood and youth the Psalm of that day was always my favourite part of the service. I love the hymns as well but the psalms are so much about God. They are beautiful. Ed asked me to be in the Choir at his church (he sang in it for seventeen years and loved it) but I said it isn't me.  When I am in a place which is not my Church or anywhere else really that is not mine; then I do not suggest anything. I leave when I have no reason to be there. I notice in my older years though that I do sometimes make comments but generally exit almost immediately when I am doing things like that and leave it to those in charge.  I just collected data as the Volunteer Secretary at Edward's Church although certainly I enjoyed going to the United Church with my grandmother, uncle and aunt as a child. I remember they were always so very nice to me and they knew I was Anglican but invited me to their Sunday School anyway. I preferred to be with my children whilst Edward was in the Choir or anywhere else for that matter. Babysitters were rare in our house. It was a time when my Church was starting to fight the lawsuits over the Residential Schools and I felt that they should simply settle and apologize and that would happen; the Anglican Church was the first to do so. What we were hearing was very upsetting. My memory was of the First Nations children coming to my High School in London, Ontario. Since I was very shy in High School I do not know if they were comfortable. I seldom spoke to anyone I did  not know. 

But I do know that we are moving more together in Canada with further to go but the National Chief of the First Nations Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak was standing beside  Prime Minister Mark Carney when I was watching the news and it was good seeing them together; working together. I must agree with Premier Wab Kinew that it is time to move past the Indian Act. He is such a marvelous person and has a wondrous ability at public speaking and managing the province of Manitoba. He does save the NDP party in my mind because otherwise I do not care for it particularly.

On to work; another busy day of cleaning.