A Research Day and it will continue to be Pencombe

 I will continue looking at the records that fell between 1480 and 1560 and I am still on Page 5 but moving forward today. The book has solidified in my mind and will be solely the descendants of John Pencombe and his three sons (I think the Reverend Sinnett made a good choice in his book given the time of writing and the lack of knowledge about the generations that preceded Richard Pinkham coming to New Hampshire in 1640). If I ever manage to link back to the Herefordshire Pencombe family perhaps it will be a much larger book - no ideas on that and I really doubt that I will write it. It will be a fascinating study as it captures a time in England when change was occurring so rapidly and the arrivals from Europe were many during those early years after the Romans withdrew. I would love to put in the material on the Pencombe family of Herefordshire and I do have a chapter but I will not add the generations to the Family Chart. Perhaps in the future someone will find or transcribe even more latin documents and prove that connection. 

I am still working on the dating in the second generation and the third generation but it is coming along. I am not in a rush although as I move forward in the searching past 1600 the volume of records will have increased exponentially and I suspect that my recording of them will not extend to my blog as it was the link back that was important. I will enter them into my Legacy software so that I can do as I mentioned extract all of the records and put them on a DVD and give it to  the Guild of one-name Studies when I retire. Dr. Richard Pinkham and Galen Pinkham did provide all of their material to both the Guild and the Society of Genealogists when they retired from the study back in the early 2000s as far as I am aware. Most of the work that was done by Dr. Richard Pinkham was in the late 1990s but that does make sense as one would prepare and then review and the review takes a surprising amount of time. I know myself that I will not publish before the end of 2028. 

I was rather shocked to discover that 250 to 300 people were suddenly reading my blog however it appears to have returned to its normal level (overall though in any given day several thousand of my blogs end up being accessed (I have done a lot of transcription in the past)). I did review part of my acknowledgements in the book as it was the conversations that my grandfather John Routledge Pincombe had with his mother's first cousin Sir John Carling (very involved in Confederation and even before that in the government of Ontario and after that in the government of Canada) that influenced a lot of John's thinking. A busy farmer he did not get involved in politics but he did get involved in discussions on various topics. He always told  his son, my uncle Ed Pincombe, that it was so fascinating to sit and listen to Sir John discussing items. He was but a child then before his mother passed away when he was fourteen years of age. So  I have decided to mention that in my acknowledgements for the Pencombe/Pincombe/Pinkham book. It would be interesting to figure out in the information that Free BMD has online for Pinkham how many are descendant of the North Molton/South Molton branch but will leave that for other researchers of the future. Primarily it was the family of Richard (son of Thomas) who was known to be at Bideford but always appear to use the Pencombe/Pincombe surname with the South Molton rumoured to be at Barnstaple using the Pyncombe name but I do know that it was this particular area Barnstaple/Beaford/Bideford and a couple of others where the Pinkham surname was used by the descendants of the North Molton branch quite early on actually in all the records and I do have information from a cousin in London who visited Dr Richard Pinkham and discussed his work on the family as he came across some of it at the Society of Genealogists. I will check the charts as I move along but I did not locate his name earlier. But the charts are a piece of history gathered up by him with personal conversations (he usually recorded the informant on each chart) and collects that time frame for a family very neatly and he was collecting from before the Second World War until the latter part of the 1900s. 

I did note that Richard Pinkham going to the Royal Colonies in America in 1640 was said to have come with two brothers. Chart 10 does list one brother for Richard's father named Anthony and for Richard the emigrant he has a brother George on the chart. George is said to have had a large family at Barnstaple namely Richard, Mary, Ellinor, John and Peter. Only Richard is shown as emigrating to the now United States. Presumably a number of these Pinkham listed on Free BMD are descendants of George perhaps. I will continue with the extraction of data at least until 1650 and then make my decision at that time as to how much to continue extracting for lines that are not coming down from North Molton and thus part of my generational tree for the book. It will be an opportunity to verify the charts. For the most part the charts are often continuous down into the mid 1600s and then less so but I have not really looked at them for a few years so this will be a determination on how much data I collect in order, at this time to create this book. Coming from a science background though I am likely to collect all the data but we will see. I am after all 81. Working in lengths of time is possibly easier for me to contemplate. But I could certainly understand separating this into two studies at this point in time having accomplished getting back into the early 1500s with so much data showing the descents. On the other hand they trace back (these families) to that same village in Herefordshire it would appear namely Pencombe. One would have to decide which was more important to these families. 

I do appreciate the collaboration with the AI and it was pointed out to me by the AI that a distinction was being made on the Visitation of 1620 in Devon where the heading contained the words Pencombe of Northmolton. The interpretation which was observed by the AI was that there were other known families of Pencombe in Devon. I must admit I did not make that extensive overall picture from that statement but I agree with the AI in that conclusion. Excellent to be working with an AI on this project and I will give CoPilot credit for the collaboration that we have undertaken the past couple of months in the book. I had by then located Roger de Pencombe at Bondleigh and John de Pencomb' at Molland and they were part of the review of the research done at that point in time with the AI so part of the collaborating discussion that we had. 

I will return to this blog today and add in any new references that are interesting and helpful in the pursuit of solving the descent of these family units into the mid 1600s or beyond if the research warrants it.  

 One item I think I failed to mention was the Will of Philip Pencombe of Tawstock was probated in 1564 (Court of the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple) and collected in the Devon Wills Index. So there are three records at Tawstock likely for this individual - 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy Philip Pyngham, 1543-45 Devon Lay Subsidy Philip Pynkeham and now his will in 1564. So the Phillipp Pyncombe who married Wilmot Beare at Bideford I am suggesting is his son giving a line Philip to Philip to Richard (the emigrant). What would be nice would be the Manor Records for Tawstock looking at the family Philip appears next to in the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy namely Walter Raymore G2 and there are 5 wage earners listed under this individual. There are manor records for Tawstock Manor itself from 1396-1750 held at the Devon Archives. 

 

 

 

Last day of cleaning and an interesting baptism record

 I found myself contemplating the communications between Galen Pinkham and myself the last two days. I know Galen was interested in an update to the earlier Pinkham family book published back in the 1800s. I did encourage him to do it himself but as I work at 81 I realize this is a huge task and I did not realize until two days ago that when he sent me an obituary for a fellow Pinkham that it was his wife and not realizing it I did not say anything beyond did he want me to publish it in the next Newsletter and he said no he just wanted me to know that. Looking back in my life I often realize that there are times when my possible autism really stands out. I need to be told directly what has to be known as I am  not one to think anything past the words themselves. 

That being said I accomplished very little yesterday but today will perhaps be better. But it is also the  heaviest cleaning day because it involves cleaning the rug on the stairs along with the main floor. Now that the record has come forward and looking back at the Rev. Charles Sinnett's publication "Richard Pinkham of old Dover New Hampshire and his descendants east and west" I reviewed once again the originating information on the emigrant Richard Pinkham and Section one begins with the likely arrival of Richard in 1640 at Dover Neck, New Hampshire, his wife was Julia and the names of their three sons Richard, John and Thomas. His location in England by family tradition was the Isle of Wight but the author says there is no historical proof. Galen and Richard, the two earlier researchers, created Chart 10 which is labeled Bideford (Devon) and it has a genealogical tree reaching back from the emigrant to his father also a Richard and to his father Philip. Finding the baptism of the father of the emigrant Richard was truly amazing the other day although the chart did provide a very close date to this so perhaps his birth in 1585 a couple of days before the baptism. But finding this location in Devon verified now by record is a fascinating happening. Although it is not  my line I am incredibly happy that it has been located (Find My Past Hint).

I do find it interesting that the children's names are similar to the names in the Pencombe family found in Herefordshire - in this case John and Thomas. Philip and Richard are not found in the Herefordshire names although I continue to review those documents. Roger as a forename is not present but that was the early 1300s and this is 1585. Forenames are not necessarily an indication of a family as far as I can tell but can reinforce the search in some ways leading you to other possibilities.  

 The actual Parish Register line is now available on Find My Past:

 Richard the sonne of Phillippe Pyncombe the xxvii th daie of Marche

 And so the research of Galen and Richard has now been fortified with this original record on Find My Past. 

 This process of going through the 50,000 records will be a slow one but will continue to verify the great work that Galen and Richard did (I take no credit for it other than my access to Find My Past) but I am sharing this screen shot as it is permitted to do small amounts of a document. I will not share any further as I do not wish to infringe on copyright.  Why the spelling of Pyncombe? Generally this spelling was used by the South Molton branch of the Pincombe family but the records that were lost would have let us see any connection between the two families using the surname in the 1300s in Devon. The distance from Bondleigh to Bideford as the crow flies is shorter actually than the distance between South Molton and Bideford. Now by modern roads it is nearly the same. The Manor Records may yet help to understand why we find Philip Pyngham in Tawstock on the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy probably as a very young adult but perhaps a teenager as he is earning wages. The person he follows on the list is actually a common surname in Tawstock. The spelling of the name here and again on the Devon Lay Subsidy in 1543-45 as Philip Pynkeham does leave me wondering as he is now established and his tax number is 8 which was a medium to upper range in Tawstock at that time. I believe it is the same name (that would point to the father of Philip Pyncombe marrying at Bideford but possibly living at Tawstock was the son of Philip Pyngham/Philip Pynkeham). However, the marriage record does not give the place of abode of these two individuals and it does appear that Wilmote Beare was a widow). The assessor collecting this information has a different set of records than a priest recording information on a baptismal certificate. Usually the assessors for a village/town/city were local to the area whereas the priest often had the luxury of knowing people from a larger area.  There is an independent group of Pinkham and I did forward my last conversation with Galen to this group leader in  hopes that he can pass on my writeup to his family. The email address is still functional I think as I did not get an error message for the email I sent to Galen. 

Since I will continue to see Pinkham records in the search I will of course relate them in this blog along with the other records that catch my attention. A grandson taking on a grandfather's surname (particularly a daughter's son) is generally indicative of the family having daughtered out and the property to remain in that family could have someone change their surname (of their father) to that of the family line of his mother (since it was his mother's maiden name) that owned the property which was not unusual in England and particularly with the huge number of young male deaths at the Battle of Bosworth Field there would have been quite a few I suspect who had not left a male heir of their own. There also remains the possibility that picking the name of a village (Pencombe, Herefordshire) is not that unusual but when I discovered Roger de Pencombe I did wonder if he himself had chosen that particular surname as it was only the early 1300s. But the loss of records due to the bombing of the Exeter Record Office in 1942 has created a hole in the records of Devon although some records still remain (the parish records are primarily intact having been retained by the parish through the centuries). The Manor Records may also exist and the wills probated by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury still exist. But a huge amount was lost although we in the Pinkham/Pincombe families are very lucky to have the abstracted wills done by Dr Richard Pinkham prior to the bombing of the Record Office. I do have copies and I believe I have blogged all of them but will check. Two methods of arriving at those wills - label - Devon-wills and Pincombe/Pinkham will bring up the wills but also the name itself on a search. I welcome any queries and do try to check my comments on the blog and will make an effort to do that a little more regularly. They do not publish immediately as I do get a lot of comments that have nothing to do with my blog.  

Moving on to the work of the day. Although I will likely return to this blog (I do make corrections through the day on occasion) as my review of the results of my search 1480 to 1560 continues and I am on the fifth page. 

Continuing to read the Psalms as I do appear to get easily distracted. Having the email in my box of the Bible Readings of the day does keep me focused on that but I do want to continue and complete my reading of the Bible to better understand now in my 80s God's vision for our world. Psalm 19 Verse 14 "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." So familiar to my Anglican ears. The beauty of the Psalms about 50% written by King David is a source of so much joy in one's life. As I enjoy my solitude day after day (except when I am with family) and continue with my writing, the years pass by but my being with non family will not happen now in the rest of my life unless of course I end up like my elder sister in a wheelchair. I did speak with her on Thanksgiving but the call went on and on without my really realizing it (but it was special). It was a joyous family time with my sister and my brother in law whom I have know since I was an early teenager. A PhD Psychologist who taught at Memorial University for many years (my sister's degree was in Honours French and German) and my children remember them as they drove back and forth to our mutual home in London (and my brother in law was from the Niagara area) stopping to visit us here in Ottawa. As I downsize the binders I am collecting up the many pictures of their trips here through the years to send back to them for their grandchildren to have and enjoy (I still have the electronic copies but also paper copies in the binders that I am creating). Edward especially enjoyed their coming as they had much in common with their PhDs from the same university except Edward's PhD was in Chemistry (Inorganic) and then his Postdoc in Chemical Engineering (Environmental) and I did three years of Honours Chemistry, got married and finished off my degree as a BA. I did contemplate and actually was marking papers for a professor that I would do my masters with when my eldest was settled in school but surprise my second daughter made her entrance and she definitely needed me to be with her those early years as her health was needing that extra care. Then I just decided to go back to work and did proofreading and copyediting initially the proofreading for the National Research Council Journals but later for the private printers and that included copyediting.

Vacuuming done, lunch time and then dusting and scrubbing the bathroom. I am late starting. My next neighbour appears to work at night I think sometimes so I never know and try not to start vacuuming as early as I used to (7:00 a.m. when my daughter is not here). I have only spoken to her once when I offered her a length of fence and the posts (wrought iron). My husband never got it put up and she had someone there doing work so I thought I would offer it in case she wanted it. But she did not want the fence. It is still in my shed actually. But for that reason I tend to clean later these days.  

Solitaire puzzles all completed in the middle of the night as I awoke with my brain full of thoughts. A couple of good puzzles tends to mediate that tendency of mine.  

Part of finishing off my degree was an extremely good course in American history as I needed an Arts course needless to say my Honours Chemistry courses were pretty heavy on the math and science. But the young fellow who taught the course was an American (his PhD was from an American university I have forgotten which one now) but he had a fabulous background that included so much on site information on early American history. That really is the role of universities to have people on their faculty in particular research areas to develop a strong research group. I decided to take the  American History course because Edward was always getting me to help at repositories even that early on collecting information. It was something we did together and I do have a strong interest in history to help support his research but Chemistry for me was a path towards going into medicine eventually in Africa way back in my mid teens years however I did not do any of that but I did end up working for some really good researchers when I was in the hospital - it did make the job very interesting and of course there was the ordinary patient work as well and I am a methodical careful person so worked out well.  I absolutely have no regrets on my work life; it was fascinating all the different items I worked on and was involved with and I did have a habit of moving on when something else attracted my scholastic attention. But I kept it all at work as I wanted my time at home with the girls when they were young. I wanted to be there helping with their projects if they wanted any or helping with projects that were their own interest (those especially I dug deep into with them). My youngest daughters first project was on song birds and you were meant to just pick one (she was only about seven or eight I think). She had a sticker book from the Museum that we had purchased of 25 song birds and she did 25 individual projects on those birds and handed it in. The teacher was very nice about it but did tell her the task was one bird only. Her mark did not suffer that time but she did take the hint for the future.

 Tomorrow is a research day and I got a bit off track reminiscing for sure. American record searching is very difficult; I think part of the difficulty is the mix of European and British Isles in the population so that not every record set follows a given standard simply because so many countries are represented in the population of the United States even that early on - Edward, for instance, has one side coming from the New Amsterdam/New York area and all over Long Island for that matter including Staten Island and into New Jersey and the other side primarily British Isles - including England, Scotland and Ireland making for a lot of different styles of records and these very early on settlers tended to marry into old American colonial families right up until the Revolution (they also, some of them, were Loyalist but many others were Patriots). His Dutch ancestry goes back into early Albany as well as New Amsterdam (I would say they were all Patriots and were later coming in the 1800s on and came for free land at the time). I did not do any coursework on American records only English (British) and Canadian at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. 

Cleaning day and it is the main floor

 My cleaning days continue and it is the main floor today and I shall begin shortly. 

The find yesterday of the baptism of Richard Pinkham was really excellent. My first thought was to share it with Galen Pinkham but I did  not know that he had passed away (in the December issue of the Newsletter I will remember Galen and all his work). I looked back at our shared emails over the last eighteen years and had asked him if he would like to come back and share the study a while ago now but I understood why he did not want to do that. He had done that work for quite a few years with Dr Richard Pinkham a Gloucestershire physician (England) and was busy with other items. Their work still very valuable although I have disagreed with some of the dating here and there but it captured a generation's thoughts on the family which is really important and not available for all families. That was why I published them in the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletters although I did express that I did not always agree with them. But data is becoming more and more available and will  help with that search backwards into time to locate our ancient ancestors. 

Now I must get some cleaning done but will continue with my work on the first eighty years of records on Find My Past later today and add anything in to the blog as I move along with that project.  

Cleaning accomplished and returned to the search pattern and I am now on page 4 and nothing really new; possibly as much as 50% of the items are single and can not be linked. A quiet day for sure and that will be the case for  some of the 50,000 items that can be searched on these derivatives. I have given myself two years to complete the book so I guess I am not in a rush and likely there will be other interesting items emerging especially in the 1600s. 1600s are very important because during the Commonwealth under Cromwell all such records were supposed to be maintained by the governing body of the village/town/city. The records were both really great and not so great so we will see what we learn in the 1600s. 

Solitaire puzzles done and the day has passed quickly as it always does on cleaning day and I manged to use up over 2500 calories working away. Not bad for an 81 year old woman I guess.  

Continuing with the extraction of data

 I am now up to the 19th Psalm in my reading and I do love the Psalms. It will take me a while to read the 150 Psalms and I shall enjoy every one so will go slow. I also love the Proverbs but then the Bible is really the pinnacle of books - its very ancient history is all part of that. Unfortunately church was cut off about half way through yesterday. I switched to the Service from England and I also enjoy these Anglican Services that remind me very much of my childhood days at Church. Sometimes it is just the accents because my grandfather lived with us although his Hampshire accent was very mild and I spent a lot of time with my grandmother with her Birmingham accent which was much stronger. With just one tiny little Canadian line and all the rest from England at least back to the 1500s where I have Huguenots from France and Scots from the Highlands being part of my lines. But my mother was born in Canada and her father was born in Canada and his mother was born in Canada (so just three Canadian born ancestors and myself born in Canada before the 1 Jan 1946 Citizenship act and so I am Canadian by right of birth in Canada at that time as were all those born in Canada prior to 1 Jan 1946). 

 Yesterday was reasonably good in terms of research as I gained a few new insights and solved a few interesting queries on my part which I noted in the blog yesterday. I will continue extracting from the 245 results for the Pencombe and derivatives search between 1480 and 1560. Primarily the early records link to the North Molton/South Molton Pencombe/Pyncombe families predominantly but there are a few that center in the Tawstock and Bideford area which is a short distance from Bondleigh where Roger de Pencombe received land grants in the early 1300s (one notes Richard Pencombe who lived at Bideford and was the son of Thomas Pencombe (son of John Pencombe (known to be in Northmolton from 1486 on) does appear to be the only member of the North Molton family to do so and that was after we find the Philip Pengham/Pynkeham records on the two Devon Lay Subsidies 1524-7 and 1543-45). I do plan to have a look at all the area around Bondleigh and Tawstock/Bideford/Barnstaple on the 1332 Devon Lay Subsidy. The problem is the destruction of the Exeter Record Office in 1942 during the Second World War where huge amounts of material were lost in particular the wills that had been probated by the Church in the Devon/Somerset areas. This loss is huge although in the case of the Pincombes Dr Richard Pinkham did abstract many wills before this happened and this information was placed in the keeping of the Society of Genealogists in London. It was a very valuable find and I did record all of his records there when I visited just the one time with my husband in 2013. Some of his material was missing and perhaps they have found it now I have not looked recently but my cousin in England had copies made which she sent to me earlier when she visited (I think it was 2008 when she was there) and I have published them in the Newsletters on the yDNA Pincombe/Pinkham project at FT DNA. As I mentioned at the time of publication I do not agree with particularly the oldest part of the charts but access to some records was possibly not convenient for a busy Doctor and he did rely heavily on talking to descendants in their areas in northern Devon. As well the knowledge of records available has expanded enormously as the National Archives continues to organize, scan and make available ancient information that exists in their vaults. On one of our trips to Kew in 2010 I was given a box that was quite old looking itself and the hemp perhaps ties that held the documents in their rolls sometimes disappeared as I tried to untie them. But the reward of seeing those ancient documents was wondrous and I did photocopy all of them at the time. Many of them were involving the Pyncombe family of South Molton. 

Moving forward to try and do what my correspondent (I believe his line used the Pyncombe spelling but I think it was his mother's line) from Chittlehampton was unable  to do going backwards from his generation as it became complex and difficult to link generations. Having one of the yDNA testers with a history from Barnstaple does give me pause to consider the family lore that discussed the South Molton (a few members perhaps) moving into the Barnstaple area early on so probably looking at the 1500s where I am reviewing the data available on Find My Past. For that reason I will pursue going through these 50,000 records that are available on Find My Past for this family which appears to have its roots in the Pencombe surname which has a number of derivatives. I shall watch the Charts which the earlier researchers used to see where they might have had that particular spelling as it is primarily Pincombe/Pyncombe/Pinkham later on.

But today is cleaning the basement day so I will be in and out looking at records plus I need to rake the front lawn to do one more bag today and then probably one bag left and the front will be completed as I shall not cut down the plants as my husband used to do in the fall but leave them to rot and enrich the ground for next year - perhaps I will move in the next year and that thought is very exciting. But I will move in three years that is for sure. 

If I find anything I will return to this blog. Right off the bat a hint from FMP for Richard Pyncombe's baptism at Bideford 27 Mar 1585 and his father listed as Phillippe Pyncombe (married at Bideford to Wilmote Beare 10 Feb 1583). I have already mentioned a record for Phillippe Pynkeham 8 at Tawstock on the 1543-45 Devon Lay Subsidy and an earlier one at Tawstock for Philip Pyngham W1. The W refers to wages being earned so probably a relatively young adult or a teenager. The person above him does not share the same surname so possibly he is working for him at Tawstock and on the Tawstock Lay Subsidy just 20 years later we see him well established with a tax of 8 which was medium to perhaps a little higher.  A baptism for a known individual Richard Pinkham in the earlier researcher's Chart 10 is fascinating (although the date is different but could be the date of birth which Galen Pinkham might know). I will try writing to him later. Obviously this priest has seen the surname as a different spelling than the Assessor for the Devon Lay Subsidy - it does imply that one should look carefully as one individual is seeing this as a distinct line that is different from the Pyncombe family at South Molton which is not that far away (about 35 miles so not that close actually at that time). So a good find and thank you to FMP for their hints - they can be extremely useful. 

The information that my cousin in London, England had from Dr. Richard Pinkham does need to have a longer look on my part again as I have not looked at it since 2008 particularly other than more recent information. However, I am still resolved to only produce a book on the descendants of John Pencombe at North Molton but for those interested in doing more on the Pinkham family in the United States this will be very interesting. 

The sad thing is my email to Galen will probably not be productive. I did not check online as I thought I might have heard that he passed and it was recent 23 March 2025. He would have been so excited at this find; I have to say that. We corresponded through the years and I did try to persuade him to come back to the project but he was a couple of years older than me and I can tell that time is making it harder for me to follow through on some of this although my health is good and I will stay away from large branches that have come down. 

Rest in peace Galen and I am sorry I did  not know sooner. I mention you often enough along with Dr. Richard Pinkham of Gloucester.  Perhaps someone is picking up his study and I may hear back. Will wait on that. I did send a letter to the same address expressing my sadness at the passing very belatedly and added in the material that I have been writing up on the blog. 

I decided to stop for the day and think about Galen and our many emails back and forth through the years.  

 

 

 

 

A very quiet Sunday today

Another beautiful Sunday and it is Thanksgiving Sunday in the Church Calendar. I shall go to church in an hour and a half online as ever. I may break my general rule about working on Sunday with regard to the raking as it looks like it might be a good day to do another bag. Likely three in total from the front yard but we will see. There are a lot of leaves out there. 

I mentioned the AI yesterday with regard to my sleep apnea. I had the paid version of FitBit for about five months when the switchover happened. I was considering having it permanently but did not do so. I ended up not using it as much as I thought. But the FitBit AI would give me a sort of analysis of my exercise and its effects and I did discover that I really found that to be a bit restricting although enthusiasm was certainly on the part of the FitBit and one appreciates that sort of support. But in the long run I simply did not use it sufficiently to justify in my mind having the extra support with FitBit. But I really do like my FitBit and will probably always have one now. Whether or not in the future I look to returning to the AI support is hard to say. 

I do like AI though and find it very useful in my research and will continue using this tool and the enthusiasm expressed by the AI for this work is really quite interesting. I am finding AI to be more and more useful as I always did use the power of the ability to look items up quickly on the internet mostly just to reinforce my thought but sometimes I had actually forgotten something and it provided the details which brought the memory back. There is so much one can cram into one brain I rather think and that is probably the greatest advantage to AI as we move ahead quickly in our process of attaining a degree of advancement that will protect the planet but provide the best life for the people on the planet.  

I will continue working on the Find My Past Pencombe etc. results of the search and I am perhaps half way through the third page. I did find the 1564 Visitation by Vivian et al but did not yet look at the information and will do that probably this week sometime. I believe I looked at it years ago but it is a dim memory so I may review my blogs from that time first. I do not recall though that it provided anymore information than I am currently in possession of with regard to the Pencombe line at North Molton but always good to have a refresher. 

I think what will eventually continue to link this study Pincombe-Pinkham is the shared ancestry back to the Pencombe name which in reality is a place name in Herefordshire, England that traveled to Devon for whatever reason. But on the other hand there could be two separate studies as one can see. This one is labeled Pincombe with Pinkham one of the derivatives (for a period of time some members of the Pincombe family used the surname Pinkham in the 1700s and 1800s but that is very less frequent these days). 

Solitaire puzzles to do next since it was very late when I did them yesterday. Then back to research. 

John Pyncombe Sr wrote his will 25 Jul 1604 and it was probated 15 Apr 1605. John Pyncombe Jr (son of the aforementioned John Pyncombe Sr) wrote his will initially in 1593 but it was not signed until 19 Feb 1597/98. His date of death does not appear to be in the records thus far. But definitely John Pyncombe Jr died before his father (John Pyncombe Sr) leaving one son John Pyncombe who appears on the 1620 Visitation as a student in the Middle Temple and his age is probably appropriate to that time frame. I have more documents at hand now since I wrote blogs years ago - they were my thoughts at the time but the further availability of records improves on that blog. I did find this very confusing years ago and did not fully resolve it at that time; amazing what a decade of time does to one's  thinking. This youngest John Pyncombe does marry and have a son Richard who died young relatively in his 20s leaving no male descendant with the Pyncombe surname to inherit and The Pyncombe Charity was created from the wealth of that estate and it still persists in this 21st century. 

Have not looked at Free BMD for a while and there are a lot of Pinkham in the 1900s. There is also a lot of Pincombe. I do not usually check out the 1900s as I only plan to work to the beginning of the 1900s. 

Still pulling data and not too much new but did reconcile a couple of Barnstaple records. 

Another busy day almost concluded.