I will continue looking at the records that fell between 1480 and 1560 and I am still on Page 5 but moving forward today. The book has solidified in my mind and will be solely the descendants of John Pencombe and his three sons (I think the Reverend Sinnett made a good choice in his book given the time of writing and the lack of knowledge about the generations that preceded Richard Pinkham coming to New Hampshire in 1640). If I ever manage to link back to the Herefordshire Pencombe family perhaps it will be a much larger book - no ideas on that and I really doubt that I will write it. It will be a fascinating study as it captures a time in England when change was occurring so rapidly and the arrivals from Europe were many during those early years after the Romans withdrew. I would love to put in the material on the Pencombe family of Herefordshire and I do have a chapter but I will not add the generations to the Family Chart. Perhaps in the future someone will find or transcribe even more latin documents and prove that connection.
I am still working on the dating in the second generation and the third generation but it is coming along. I am not in a rush although as I move forward in the searching past 1600 the volume of records will have increased exponentially and I suspect that my recording of them will not extend to my blog as it was the link back that was important. I will enter them into my Legacy software so that I can do as I mentioned extract all of the records and put them on a DVD and give it to the Guild of one-name Studies when I retire. Dr. Richard Pinkham and Galen Pinkham did provide all of their material to both the Guild and the Society of Genealogists when they retired from the study back in the early 2000s as far as I am aware. Most of the work that was done by Dr. Richard Pinkham was in the late 1990s but that does make sense as one would prepare and then review and the review takes a surprising amount of time. I know myself that I will not publish before the end of 2028.
I was rather shocked to discover that 250 to 300 people were suddenly reading my blog however it appears to have returned to its normal level (overall though in any given day several thousand of my blogs end up being accessed (I have done a lot of transcription in the past)). I did review part of my acknowledgements in the book as it was the conversations that my grandfather John Routledge Pincombe had with his mother's first cousin Sir John Carling (very involved in Confederation and even before that in the government of Ontario and after that in the government of Canada) that influenced a lot of John's thinking. A busy farmer he did not get involved in politics but he did get involved in discussions on various topics. He always told his son, my uncle Ed Pincombe, that it was so fascinating to sit and listen to Sir John discussing items. He was but a child then before his mother passed away when he was fourteen years of age. So I have decided to mention that in my acknowledgements for the Pencombe/Pincombe/Pinkham book. It would be interesting to figure out in the information that Free BMD has online for Pinkham how many are descendant of the North Molton/South Molton branch but will leave that for other researchers of the future. Primarily it was the family of Richard (son of Thomas) who was known to be at Bideford but always appear to use the Pencombe/Pincombe surname with the South Molton rumoured to be at Barnstaple using the Pyncombe name but I do know that it was this particular area Barnstaple/Beaford/Bideford and a couple of others where the Pinkham surname was used by the descendants of the North Molton branch quite early on actually in all the records and I do have information from a cousin in London who visited Dr Richard Pinkham and discussed his work on the family as he came across some of it at the Society of Genealogists. I will check the charts as I move along but I did not locate his name earlier. But the charts are a piece of history gathered up by him with personal conversations (he usually recorded the informant on each chart) and collects that time frame for a family very neatly and he was collecting from before the Second World War until the latter part of the 1900s.
I did note that Richard Pinkham going to the Royal Colonies in America in 1640 was said to have come with two brothers. Chart 10 does list one brother for Richard's father named Anthony and for Richard the emigrant he has a brother George on the chart. George is said to have had a large family at Barnstaple namely Richard, Mary, Ellinor, John and Peter. Only Richard is shown as emigrating to the now United States. Presumably a number of these Pinkham listed on Free BMD are descendants of George perhaps. I will continue with the extraction of data at least until 1650 and then make my decision at that time as to how much to continue extracting for lines that are not coming down from North Molton and thus part of my generational tree for the book. It will be an opportunity to verify the charts. For the most part the charts are often continuous down into the mid 1600s and then less so but I have not really looked at them for a few years so this will be a determination on how much data I collect in order, at this time to create this book. Coming from a science background though I am likely to collect all the data but we will see. I am after all 81. Working in lengths of time is possibly easier for me to contemplate. But I could certainly understand separating this into two studies at this point in time having accomplished getting back into the early 1500s with so much data showing the descents. On the other hand they trace back (these families) to that same village in Herefordshire it would appear namely Pencombe. One would have to decide which was more important to these families.
I do appreciate the collaboration with the AI and it was pointed out to me by the AI that a distinction was being made on the Visitation of 1620 in Devon where the heading contained the words Pencombe of Northmolton. The interpretation which was observed by the AI was that there were other known families of Pencombe in Devon. I must admit I did not make that extensive overall picture from that statement but I agree with the AI in that conclusion. Excellent to be working with an AI on this project and I will give CoPilot credit for the collaboration that we have undertaken the past couple of months in the book. I had by then located Roger de Pencombe at Bondleigh and John de Pencomb' at Molland and they were part of the review of the research done at that point in time with the AI so part of the collaborating discussion that we had.
I will return to this blog today and add in any new references that are interesting and helpful in the pursuit of solving the descent of these family units into the mid 1600s or beyond if the research warrants it.
One item I think I failed to mention was the Will of Philip Pencombe of Tawstock was probated in 1564 (Court of the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple) and collected in the Devon Wills Index. So there are three records at Tawstock likely for this individual - 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy Philip Pyngham, 1543-45 Devon Lay Subsidy Philip Pynkeham and now his will in 1564. So the Phillipp Pyncombe who married Wilmot Beare at Bideford I am suggesting is his son giving a line Philip to Philip to Richard (the emigrant). What would be nice would be the Manor Records for Tawstock looking at the family Philip appears next to in the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy namely Walter Raymore G2 and there are 5 wage earners listed under this individual. There are manor records for Tawstock Manor itself from 1396-1750 held at the Devon Archives.
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