The ability to pump gas is once again in Russia's court and they are trying to manipulate European unity by decreasing the amount that they will send to Europe. They are desperate to get Europe to stand down and stop helping Ukraine. But why should they? The last time Russia rampaged across Europe we had an Iron Curtain around so many countries that lasted for over thirty years. No one wants to be a slave in a Russian Empire. Imperialism is archaic; the time for countries with rights determined by the United Nations has arisen. Too bad that Russia is slipping back into the dark ages and her people are losing their children to a war that is illegal from any standpoint.
Prayers for Ukraine as always.
Continued with the Protestation Returns and I have nearly completed that process. Some of the Exeter parishes I am unable to bring up on the website so may miss a few Tincomb/Tincombe entries as they seem to center in that area of the south (32 entries for this surname found). The next step is to see if this is the same family as Pincombe. I suspect it is just coincidental that the spelling is so close as the writing of the surname Tincomb has a most distinct T at the beginning. I note on line that the meaning for this particular name derives from Teigncombe in Chagford (Devon). Teigncombe takes its name from the River Teign with comb being old English for Valley. Interesting really and I suspect I will just put this data aside as not being part of the Pincombe/Pinkham family study. Interesting Gidleigh is just under three kilometres from Chagford and the density of Tincombe in this area is the highest. The distance from Chagford to North Molton is 58 kilometres. Thus far I am pretty content with this bit of sleuthing and will continue to not include the Tincombe/Tincomb family in my research.
That leaves me with 47 Pincombe and other spellings in my list. The next set to examine is Dencombe/Dinecombe/Bonicomb/ Buncombe/Burcombe to see if I can find them in the applicable register namely - North Tawton/|Lifton/Okehampton/Hemyock. My original list from Stoate's book at Salt Lake City gave me 25 Pincombe entries so I have acquired a few that I did not have before which might be helpful in understanding the Pincombe family of North Molton as they moved away from North Molton into the surrounding area of Devon.
Two members of this group have the surname Pincam and in the Find My Past records Pinkham is one of the surnames selected as a variant so my first mention of Pinkham Edmund Pincam and Richard Pincam of Yarnscombe, Hartland. Yarnscombe is south west of North Molton and the route has one going from North Molton to South Molton to Chittlehampton to Umberleigh and hence to Yarnscombe a distance of 23 kilometres. Find My Past has 35 hits for this surname in Devon in a limited time period. Certainly members of the Pincombe family were using the Pinkham surname in London in the late 1600s (or it was being used for them; hard to say). An interesting survey looking at all of the Protestation Returns. A remarkable range of surnames although some surnames definitely dominated some villages/towns. The surname containing comb/combe had a number of variations perhaps because there are many valleys in Devon along the many rivers.
In the case of Pincombe I am still suspicious that this is a surname that came to Devon perhaps from Herefordshire as mentioned on the Visitation of 1620 (arriving at the beginning of the reign of Henry VII (1485)). Because this family appears to have used the Pencombe surname initially there was a place name of Pencombe in Herefordshire. The use of the old English combe was probably pretty common across England when surnames began. Although there were not huge numbers of surnames with the Combe as part of it there were more than a few.
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