The second last chart proved to be a longer issue than I would have ever contemplated. I had simply accepted James Sanders Pedigree Chart giving the birth mother for Anne [Christiana] Siderfin as Ann Hinde. I do not think I ever really thought about it. Being a one-namer I tend not to really get that involved in the female lines coming down although in this case I did do so to attach my own line back to my 3x great grandmother Elizabeth (Siderfin) Rew. It was with that thought that I really started to look at James' Pedigree Chart and realized that Ann (Hinde) Siderfin had not mentioned the Darch family (Anna married Johannes Darch) in her will at all which seemed very strange. Thomas 5 (Ann's husband and Anna's father) had mentioned both his wife and his daughter in his will prior to the date of the marriage of Anna. I have as a result moved Anna in the chart so that she is the daughter of Thomas Siderfin and Elizabeth Lightmaker who probably died at the time of Anna's birth or shortly thereafter as she married early in 1665 (the license was issued on the 30 Mar 1665 in London) and died in 1665. I was always somewhat confused by this particular line coming down from Thomas but could not put a finger on it until I really looked at James' chart and realized with the will also sitting in front of me that the dates simply did not work for Ann (Hinde) Siderfin to be the mother of Anne. That was really the last hurdle reaching the end point.
I replaced a picture of my maternal grandfather with a younger one more in sequence with the younger picture of my maternal grandmother (circa 1912 for both of them) and that completed my work on the book. I will get the licensing done and the copy up on line by the 30th giving myself that extra bit of time to think about the book. It is a good feeling to be finished.
If anyone sees anything they feel strongly about please do feel free to comment. I am overall satisfied with the two books now and I have proven what I set out to prove which is the line of descent for my Elizabeth (Siderfin) Rew daughter of Robert Siderfin and Grace (Kent) Siderfin baptized 19 Jun 1759 at Wootton Courtney, Somerset, England both back to John Siderfin and Christian (unknown) Siderfin who lived at Loughborough, Somerset, England circa 1500s and down to myself born in Canada just before the middle of the 1900s.
So today I shall start work on the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter which did not get published on the 1st of December. I will mention the Charting Book there as my Pincombe cousins here in Canada are all descendant of the Siderfin family as we share my 2x great grandmother Elizabeth (Rew) Pincombe who emigrated to Canada with her husband John Pincombe and their five children leaving Plymouth on the 20th November 1850 and arriving in the Port of New York on the 7th January 1851. Their travel to the home of Robert Pincombe (John's older brother) in upper New York State and then in March 1851 to the London, Upper Canada area is well documented. The Siderfin-Pincombe matches are many in the DNA databases especially given that our Elizabeth had a twin sister Charlotte who remained in England with her family. These two families corresponded well into the 1930s but the war appeared to slow that down somewhat. I have corresponded with descendants of all of Elizabeth (Rew) Pincombe's siblings.
Tea drank and I shall get my daughter to check my licensing a little later when she has time. It is lovely to have her for Christmas but she has spent it marking, doing research discussions with co-authors and getting ready for next term although has had a number of good skiing days which is wonderful. The snow finally came. But that is the life of an academic for sure.
Breakfast next and then Latin. I am starting to think seriously about all of the documents that I have in Latin now and the desire to start working on them is very strong. I did wonder how my eyes would do with that and it is amazing really to look at those ancient documents and realize that yes I can still do this. Medicine is a wonderful gift to the world for sure.
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