An interesting document written by a member of the Woollacott family.
His discussion on the Woollacott is not helpful to me but he refers to a book "The Book of High Bickington" published by Avril Stone.
"From the 15th century onwards the Pyncombes of North Molton amassed much of the land surrounding High Bickington. This land was put into a charitable trust on January 20, 1730. On November 26, 1919 the Pyncombe Estate sold all their properties at an auction. J. H. Woollacott is recorded as purchasing Yelland Farm at that auction." See the will of Gertrude Pyncombe which was blogged earlier and she was the last surviving member of this line. Clearly this brings back attention to the chart of descent on Chart 1-2 to be interesting to this study.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.com/2011/08/will-of-gertrude-pyncombe-prob-11643.html
I find the reference to North Molton interesting as that does appear to be the "home" of the Pincombe/Pyncombe/Pencombe family and the earliest location in which they are found in North Devon thus far in my studies. The caption on the Visitation of Devon 1620 reads that they arrived with Lord Zouch at the beginning of the reign of Henry VII (1485). Lord Zouch had fought on the side of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
I do need to bring the Tax records into this study as well. It is known that this Pyncombe line ended with Gertrude as neither she nor her siblings had any living heirs descendant of their parents. This is the line that used the coat of arms attributed to Pincombe.
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