Siderfin Book and the fourth generation

 I got back to work on the Siderfin Book and working on the fourth generation. I decided to review the Luxborough Parish Registers and downloaded perhaps another thirty pages with Siderfin entries. There do not appear to be a lot of baptisms which was surprising and perhaps they were baptizing elsewhere. I will do a search for Siderfin in the areas around Luxborough as I know my family was at Selworthy and area. The distance between Luxborough and Selworthy by road is 17.9 kilometres and would be shorter on foot or by horse for sure. The distance passes through Timberscombe and Minehead. My line was also at Wootton Courtney which is just 9.7 kilometres and that is a fairly straight path which also passes through Timberscombe but not as far north as Minehead. 

The fourth generation is quite large and will take a while to sort through and I will look at Ancestry, Find My Past and My Heritage records to see what I can find. The registers for Luxborough are in rough shape at the beginning but by the middle of the 1600s they are quite legible for the most part. I still need to look at Wootton Courtney and Selworthy and eventually Minehead as they were also there. 

The next newsletter is for the Pincombe-Pinkham one name study and I am tempted to see what I can find out about the Pincombe family that lived at South Molton. They appear by the charts prepared by the earlier researchers to have daughtered out. This family first used the Pincombe crest and it was not picked up by anyone in later years as far as I can determine from afar. But it has been said by family lore (not mine) that the Barnstaple Pincombe family were descendant of the South Molton family. I have no ideas on that and it might be interesting to look at the John Pincombe family there as they left wills and there are some property records that might aid in that research proposal. The Siderfin family married into my Pincombe family when Elizabeth Rew (daughter of John Rew and Elizabeth Siderfin married 30 Jan 1792 at Selworthy) married John Pincombe at Bishops Nympton 9 Jan 1834. 

In the meantime the world waits to see what happens to the Ukraine. The EU is becoming tired of Russia and its claims on Ukraine territory - an oil embargo is such a perfect idea. During the Soviet-US Cold War era, many people were moved from Russia into the countries behind the so-called Iron Current. That doesn't make the areas they now occupy Russian they are simply transplants who should either adjust to living in the country they are in or go back to Russia. Crimea belongs to Ukraine as well and should be returned to the Ukraine. Russia is the new Nazi regime with their greed for land that isn't theirs and their atrocities committed against the Ukraine population. One prays that the Russian people will throw off the Nazi leadership in their country and come back to where they were part of the world's economy. It was interesting as a child watching as the language changed and people better understood the Nazi leadership in Germany during the Second World War and before. Greed is a terrible thing; that is why it is one of the seven dreadful sins. The sins being committed in the name of Russia are mounting rapidly. But the greed probably only lies in the upper echelons of power in Russia but time will tell on that score. Do the Russian people want a better life as part of the world or do they want to be scorned and hated for what is happening in the Ukraine in their name?