Working forward and the marriage of Richard Pincombe and Marye Russell 28 Jul 1613 at Alwington, Devon. It is correct on Chart 10 and not sure on Chart 14 but it looks like 29 which is incorrect according to the original register page. The spelling of the surname is definitely a changing item over time. One can understand how complicated it was to be a Pincombe in Devon although the spellings seem to have steadied in the 1700s.
Another busy day of research and tomorrow I will again collaborate with the AI and discuss thoughts on how to pursue the Pencombe connection between Devon and Herefordshire if indeed one exists. Although why an individual would choose the surname Pencombe unless they were thinking of the village in Herefordshire is perhaps a mystery in itself.
I continue also today with generating the genealogical table for the Pencombe family at North Molton in 1486. It is moving along nicely but certainly the records abound with possibilities on the line of Christopher Pyncombe at South Molton and possibly by family lore also in the Barnstaple area. That spelling was used predominantly by this line at South Molton but can not really be trusted as a likely ensured path for this line. Collecting data slow but sure and we will see how it all transpires in two years time when I am thinking I will publish.
One of inherent weaknesses of the system was the spelling and the priest was not always of the area in which he was located. That meant you needed to know how to spell your name or it needed to be in the register but leads to all sort of possible errors as well. That the assessors for lay subsidies and the priests did not likely compare is a strong likelihood so you could even have more variety introduced for spelling. I do think that Galen Pinkham and Dr Richard Pinkham did an excellent job of collecting information in particular the information they collected from descendants of this family in the various locations. It is a gift to the present and the future. That was why I published them on my blog although did mention that I did not always agree with the material but modern facilities that permit searching the registers thousands of miles away does make a difference to how information in now accessed and used in a final product. The more the merrier in this wonderful vocation of genealogy that quite captures the minds of many of my colleagues also in their now 80s. Coming late to this venture really did not affect me very much as my mother was very interested in her family and sent me a great deal of information in twenty five years of letters to me here and in the case of my father's family my grandfather lived with us and talked to me most of the time about his family in Upper Clatford and what he knew about them. A chance look at a book on the Blake Family of Ireland in the local Public Library I think may have been what inspired him to tell me so many times sometimes the stories that he told me literally pop out of my brain now in my old age particularly when I come across something that he talked about many times. That was his purpose probably along with wanting us to know that we were from an English Blake family but one would never have guessed that I would spend hours every day on genealogy in my old age. Particularly not my husband who did genealogy from his early teens asking questions about his Kipp family. They were his prime interest for a very long time until his mother said what about the Link family?
And he turned then to this Link family as well and the discovery that a Patriot family descendant had married a Loyalist descendant amazed me but time has passed and life moves forward.
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