Main floor cleaning

Yesterday I made a decision after working most of the day on Pincombe to move to Blake today. I need to decide what I am doing so will spend a little time working on that. However, I may continue with my Pincombe hits at Find My Past just to complete that project. I am missing some items though it appears so will have to review how I am doing this drawing out of the 50,000 items on Pincombe. I can see that if I work on lines that I get more data so will contemplate that a little as well. Hopefully I will soon hear about the document that I want to have scanned at the UK Archives. 

The earlier researchers Galen Pinkham and Dr Richard Pinkham linked the line of John Pincombe and Jane Blackmore back to a John Pincombe of Knowstone giving John a number of siblings namely Mary, Elizabeth, Emotte, Rose and William all born between 1629 and 1641. Interestingly speaking with a cousin who had spoken with the College of Arms about the Pincombe family at Bishops Nympton said that the descendants in Bishops Nympton were predominantly from this family and the Parish Registers certainly show that to be very much the case having transcribed the entire set of them. The Bishops Nympton Chart does not have any Acknowledgements so has been put together from the records I am assuming as there are more dates on this chart than others. Since the line from Knowstone does not include John Pincombe married to Grace Manning I do not agree with it and have stayed with the line as my mother remembered it. But I will also be proving my own line as I work through it since I have simply stayed with her thoughts on it. I need to learn more about Knowstone though and how a Pincombe ended up there especially as one of the daughter's names is Emotte. William Pincombe and Emotte Snow likely married around 1564 and the John Pincombe at Knowstone would have married around the mid 1620s. My suspicion is that Dr. Richard Pinkham did not know where to place John Pincombe married to Jane Blackmoore and this family at Knowstone was handy. I used the land records from the 1700s to help me but now I will review all of that coming forward from John Pencombe (1486). I will use the Living DNA Pincombe matches as well to see if any trees that they might have on Find My Past might assist if they have always lived in England. What I do remember is that they always lived at Bishops Nympton back into the late 1500s as that was another memory my mother had which was why I moved back to Richard who had a son William and was mentioned in his father's will (William Pincombe married to Emotte Snowe). So we will see because she was only eight when her father died and they moved into the City of London away from close family as most of them stayed on the Pincombe farms around London. 

I went and voted yesterday and it was a nice walk (had my rain suit and it works very well). I think I have had that rain suit for about fifty or more years actually. It isn't like you wear one that often and mostly it was camping when I wore it. I did love camping for sure and canoeing. It was great fun especially in the northern woods; north of Sault Ste Marie was generally where we went  When you are there you get a sense of the magnificence of God in our world as you look around at the wondrous surroundings of Northern Ontario.  I did give the canoe away to a First Nations family in the north a few years ago and they had two young children so I know they are enjoying that cedar strip canoe. It was a beauty. A person I know does a lot of work with her people (First Nations) and has been very helpful with my giving such items away. 

Still reading the Psalms and they are wondrous. When I sang in the Choir in my childhood and youth the Psalm of that day was always my favourite part of the service. I love the hymns as well but the psalms are so much about God. They are beautiful. Ed asked me to be in the Choir at his church (he sang in it for seventeen years and loved it) but I said it isn't me.  When I am in a place which is not my Church or anywhere else really that is not mine; then I do not suggest anything. I leave when I have no reason to be there. I notice in my older years though that I do sometimes make comments but generally exit almost immediately when I am doing things like that and leave it to those in charge.  I just collected data as the Volunteer Secretary at Edward's Church although certainly I enjoyed going to the United Church with my grandmother, uncle and aunt as a child. I remember they were always so very nice to me and they knew I was Anglican but invited me to their Sunday School anyway. I preferred to be with my children whilst Edward was in the Choir or anywhere else for that matter. Babysitters were rare in our house. It was a time when my Church was starting to fight the lawsuits over the Residential Schools and I felt that they should simply settle and apologize and that would happen; the Anglican Church was the first to do so. What we were hearing was very upsetting. My memory was of the First Nations children coming to my High School in London, Ontario. Since I was very shy in High School I do not know if they were comfortable. I seldom spoke to anyone I did  not know. 

But I do know that we are moving more together in Canada with further to go but the National Chief of the First Nations Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak was standing beside  Prime Minister Mark Carney when I was watching the news and it was good seeing them together; working together. I must agree with Premier Wab Kinew that it is time to move past the Indian Act. He is such a marvelous person and has a wondrous ability at public speaking and managing the province of Manitoba. He does save the NDP party in my mind because otherwise I do not care for it particularly.

On to work; another busy day of cleaning.