Finally a research day

Today will be principally a research day. Just a few hits now left in the search at Find My past looking at results for "Pencombe" all variations between births from 1480 to  1560. It did pull out a lot of information but seemed to miss some items so will do searches on the lines pulled out now. Some agreement with the Charts here and there. I will do some searches in existing trees to see what emerges. My own tree has not actually been up on the system that long so should not see a strong effect there but we will see. The real question is can this be done with so much information destroyed in the bombing of the Exeter Registery Office in 1942. A lot of the land records fortunately are still available which is the basis often enough of the sort in the 1500s. The 1600s have a different problem with the Cromwell period and a change from the Church maintaining the records to the municipal level. I am seeing somewhat less of that being a factor as compared to the Hampshire records at that time though I must admit. Further from London perhaps so the rules were not quite so strictly maintained, a thought anyway. 

Having the proof back to John Pincombe and Mary Charly is handy. Plus the transcription of John's will by Dr Richard Pinkham prior to the wills being destroyed also very lucky. Being able to clearly prove that the parents of this John were John Pincombe and Grace Manning would be a plus. Not having contributors to the Bishops Nympton page is a drawback perhaps but the land records may still solve that problem. Interesting that John mentions a property in North Molton but the distance between all of these places in North Devon is quite small. According to the AI the straight line distance is four to five miles.  We traveled this road in 2008 from North Molton to Bishops Nympton. 

I do plan on getting back to Blake today and will begin with what I know about the Blake families at Enham and review that first and second generation information in the Legacy file. The wills are abundant in this family at that time and very helpful. I postulated that Robert (left his will in 1521) had a third son deceased who was married to Joane Blake widow at Enham who also left a will naming her three children Robert, Nicholas and Elizabeth.  That would have given the Robert (will 1521) three sons namely unknown, Richard and Thomas. Sometimes the simplest method is the logical path and Joane was definitely married to a Blake and all of them are at Enham in this time frame. Robert's sons Richard and Thomas both left wills to help in this as well Joane's sons Robert and Nicholas also fortuitously left wills to aid this process. I shall review them today and make sure I have gleaned everything possible from the wills. 

Middle of the night and I woke up so decided to look a bit at my day ahead. Back to sleep.