Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter

I am working on the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter. Lately I received an offer for a couple of  DNA tests to give away but I am reluctant to do other than pass on the name of the individual who is willing to make these tests available. There are simply not enough people tested in the yDNA line to make any particular claims. I would suggest that individuals of the Pinkham family should test and in the line of the individual offering the opportunity.

The yDNA testing for my Pincombe line at Bishops Nymptom into the 1900s and dating back to the late 1590s at Bishops Nympton in the Parish Registers has been proven back to John Pincombe (baptized 13 Feb 1728 at Bishops Nympton son of John Pincombe and Grace Manning married 20 Mar 1725 at Bishops Nympton). Likely this line goes back to North Molton with Richard Pincombe (found at Bishops Nympton in his adult years) likely being the fourth son of William Pincombe and Emotte Snow who lived at East Buckland and likely born at North Molton. My third cousin has tested for our line and he matches a fifth cousin who lives/lived in Australia and descendant of one of the other sons of John Pincombe and Mary Charley with this John Pincombe having been baptized 13 Feb 1728 at Bishops Nympton. A further match with these two has ancestry at Barnstaple and there is family lore that descendants of the Pincombe Family at South Molton (known to be related to the Pincombe family at North Molton) did move to Barnstaple in the 1500s.

I think that the yDNA study will likely wait for another generation of Pincombe-Pinkham testers. I have asked a few Pincombes known to me to test but they do not wish to do so at this time. Curiosity tends to be the driving force in DNA and we just have to wait for that curiosity to catch up to our study.

Hope the Newsletter is completed by the end of the weekend. Gardening takes up so much time these days but soon everything will be planted. It is still cool here in Ottawa and the ground too wet to dig for the main garden although this weekend may prove to be a good drying one although rain is promised!