More shopping

 Once you get started shopping it does get to be a must do that as well experience. However, I believe we are finished for a bit. Two new sets of drapes for windows that needed a change (for both the existing blind was simply worn out; did its duty through the years) and they are all up now and we are pleased with the end result. They both work; that was my main criteria. My daughter though had thoughts on how she wanted them to look so went with that as it saves me thinking about it. My husband was usually the one who got such activities going as my interest is low in that so long as it works. I am simply not a shopper; have little interest in the ups and downs of fashions and avoid shopping times that are intense. 

Consequently because I had holes to file and sanding to do I did not accomplish much other than that yesterday. A little bit of painting to do here and there and also some staining where the holes were filled. That I can do although in the past Edward would have done most of it other than my helping when he wanted a second pair of hands at work. 

Today perhaps some research. I opened the file and that was about it; nothing beyond that yesterday. I had another email from the member of the Hinxman family which is most interesting as we both pursue information on our family lines in the Andover, Hampshire, England area. His line had arrived in the mid 1500s with mine appearing to have been there for quite a while prior to that. The proofs though are what I am looking for and some do exist which is helpful. I have documents which I must transcribe and the time for that is coming as I start to create the genealogical charts. 

My mind was too busy yesterday to continue strolling back into time. Just occasionally something brings back little memories and in retrospect they point out to me my character. Was I too polite as a younger person? I never think you can be too polite but perhaps you can be too welcoming sometimes although that is not a characteristic I would give myself but more something that Edward was comfortable at. We were often opposites in how we approached items but that was often a very good trait I feel in retrospect. Not having close relatives outside of my own personal large family of six siblings, parents, grandparents and one uncle  and aunt only, no first cousins, I did not have his sense of closeness to what I have always deemed as strangers particularly and that includes second cousins etc. However, I did have my fifth cousin in for tea a while ago but we do know each other from our mutual work in DNA. That was an amazing discovery finding Susan in the midst of all that endogamy that exists in my Knight-Butt-Arnold-Ellis family. She relates back through the Ellis family which is very large. 

So today some work on Gedmatch and perhaps the rest of my matches there which might be interesting will be completed. Slowly I am collecting up any missed matches this past six months. I am considering creating a family tree on 23 and Me to follow their suggestion that I could see a DNA pattern emerge for relatives (I would assume they are referring to phasing grandparents). It would be an interesting exercise to see what they come up with in this regard. 

Time to do solitaire puzzles and I am a little late with breakfast although I have already had a snack with my exercise routine.  

On to the second day of cleaning

I  believe I am going to enjoy the cleaning done over three days. Two days just wasn't quite long enough for this 80 year old; it was just a bit exhausting on the one day. No reason for that so will refrain from doing it. The  main floor today and it is the smallest area which sounds strange but the garage has a room over it. 

I completed Chromosome 12 yesterday and other than the Rawlings matches there are sufficient other matches (Blake, Pincombe and Buller) that I can assign known  matches to most of the chromosomal areas for the five siblings. I may go back and do this little display with lengths on the other chromosomes as it is enlightening although can also be seen looking at DNA Painter. 

I also set up Chromosome 11 to work on today and there are 80 matches in this particular folder to review. Cross over points vary from 2 to 4 for each sibling with most having two, one with three and one with four. Interestingly entire length of Rawlings chromosomes are passed (17  over 22 chromosomes are complete for the entire picture of five siblings excluding Chromosome 23 where 3 are Rawlings inherited as one length from our father). That is also true in  Chromosome 11 which has two  (one is to me). I inherited the most Rawlings at 33% (if one had a perfect world than perhaps each grandparent would pass 25% to each grandchild and it often is quite close to that but also different like my 33% which yields just 17% Blake for me). The crossover points have been selected on the basis of the Living DNA results and they compare fairly closely with the existing points created from the 23 and Me data along with FT DNA, Ancestry (Gedmatch) and My Heritage. But my principal guide was the 23 and Me results. I have just two crossover points in Living DNA that I can not place and that is the first time. I will have to review this as I move through the matches. I will also pull up the visuals in Living DNA and have a look at them to see where the match that affected that is occurring. 

No work on the Photo Books and I must get back to that. Generally I need to have long periods for any project and the Cross over points have me in tow at the moment. I have the first Photo Book completed and I am just entering the information into the index for that one. The others will take less time as they have an existing index. These pictures distract me as they are from long ago when Edward and I first knew each other at school as fellow students (he was one year ahead of me). 

An interesting finding with my Ellis sixth cousin as a Susan Courage (lived in the 1800s not currently) came up in the search path on a Blake ancestor. So checking with my cousin indeed she was in her tree and so another Ellis-Wellspring line has been uncovered and Ellis Ellis and Sarah Wellspring were our mutual 5x great grandparents marrying 7 Mar 1738 at Winterbourne Stickland in Dorset. Their descendants of their five surviving children (one died young and I have not found descendants for one) are now all over the world.  Their youngest Sarah married William Knight 7 Aug 1775 at Winterbourne Stickland and their 9 children are definitely all over the world with a lot remaining in both cases in England to match me on these databases. 

All of Canada is so excited at the Blue Jays going on to the World Series. It has been a long hard year in Canada and this little bright spot will bring a lot of happiness to Canadians. I am definitely staying away from the television a great deal these days. Myself I think we have to dig in and get industries growing again, get a pipeline built to Ontario from Alberta so that we can refine the oil and offset the loss of the car industry by refining our own; we burn a lot of gas in Ontario; we are the largest population province wise and we have a huge land area. The other item is to get the Trans Canada Highway widened to four lanes right across the province and not take forever to do it. Just build build build next spring and get it going. Already the road is probably twice as busy or more than a year ago. We also need to link to Port Churchill and the train going up to  Port Churchill so as to use that natural harbour as a shipping point for the Northern Ontario rare earth minerals (this project is to be First Nations) unless we are going to build a port on James Bay. But it does seem like duplication in some ways since there isn't an existing one. All of this needs to be done with the support of the First Nations who dominate Northern Ontario and also the Manitoba First Nations. When we went to Moosonee on a trip in 2012 we took a boat ride on the Moosonee River out to James Bay and it was marvelous. We stayed at an eco lodge on Moosonee Factory Island and our oldest daughter had come with us on that trip. Edward was having some ill health at that time and I suggested to her that she might like a holiday away from all her work and it was her research time so she agreed and was there to help as Edward had wanted to go there for years (as did I actually). It was a marvelous trip on the train up from Cochrane to Moosonee. During our free time on the island we walked on the paths suggested by the Lodge to see some of the island. What a marvelous place it was and so very much enjoyed by us. But especially that trip out to James Bay was spectacular. On the way back we saw a huge white wolf watching us from the shore. Lots of bird life whilst we were there as well and we had taken our binoculars so certainly saw a lot on that trip that we normally would not have in Eastern Ontario except at migration time as there is a flyway across the St Lawrence River not far from here. No more on the current situation just work on my writing and stay away from the TV for sure. 

 Tea drank and a thin piece of my thinly buttered banana bread eaten. Soon breakfast time and cleaning. 

 

Downsizing and a couple of new tasks

 Downsizing is great but a new task emerged which I had not considered before now. In our trips to the Northern United States in particular over the last fifty years we visited a lot of graveyards deep into the woods on occasion and took pictures of the gravestones of Edward's ancestors. There are two binders of these pictures (not actually part of the 40 plus binders that are under current survey) and I have resolved to put them into a *.pdf file and publish them as ancestral photos of gravestones and I think his index tells where they are located (hopefully). A smallish project really as just two binders but it has a greater likelihood of happening. What to do with the binders when I have completed the task? I could ask the OGS Library if they want them and will probably do that but the actual images are all scanned and in the backups so do not need to keep these printed pictures at all. 

So another task to do but it could be a diversion whilst I work on the cross-over points using the Living DNA data for the five siblings. I did begin with that yesterday and have Chromosome 1 completed as coming directly from the Living DNA data. I will work with this data somewhat as it is influenced, I think, by the points that have been selected by this company as testing points for DNA matching. Where there are very small gaps in particular I can ignore those as cross-over points as they are likely just a product of the methodology used for the actual running of samples. I note that it shows up quite strongly in just one sibling. The problem areas that I found with the original phasing is showing up quite consistently in these new match results and were truly ambiguous so that was good to find as well. 

I do want to get together the journal that I still contribute to the OGS Library along with some family newsletters and get them to the library. It is hard to believe that it is a year since I last took them a box of items. What I thought was a real stack is really just a few items actually as it included a box which turns out to be a bankerbox full of back-ups that we need to review and discard if they are backed up adequately in the present. These backups go back to the last century! 

Edward was very consistent in backing up all of his material from a very early time in the life of computers but then he did work with electronic messaging systems almost from his arrival at CISTI where he worked for 30 years. When he was there, retired in 2004,  it was a busy place heavily involved in research but then Prime Minister Harper sold the library to the United States which was pretty weird at the time and remains pretty weird. Why would anyone sell or close up libraries as he did - it will be forever a black mark against him trying to destroy research and gag researchers preventing them from attending particularly foreign conferences. Life moves forward always and if you do not like the research perhaps one should examine why that is rather than suffocating research. 

The oil industry must survive the perils of research the same as all other industries have overtime. Research perfects the system to make it better, safer and more economical. It was such items that cost the Conservative Party their control of government  in Canada. A return to the Progressive Conservative fundamentals is what is needed in order for them to win again - I am after all a Conservative but a great believer in science and its value in the human sphere. Attacking the Prime Minister on a personal level continues to be a no-go for me unless he is breaking the law. I do not care what stocks he owns if they are in a blind trust. Obviously the man is not stupid and does know where his money is likely invested. I haven't seen anything yet that I do not like that he is doing. He is walking a very fine tightrope dealing with this tariff issue and I was accepting of his saying that likely there will be a tariff in the end on Canadians exports to the United States that are not covered by CUSMA but we can do a claw-back on American imports just the same to match. Farm management is never up for change because we will protect our family farms! I mean putting tariffs on us at the time was unkind (which is basically a very weak comment on my part) considering the close and honest relationship between us and stripping shelves here of American products was just a tit for tat and continues thus.  That is life and the government coffers here need money to manage projects which are huge to come in this country once acceptance is gained by all involved parties (we let our local industries go over the past fourty years but now we can re-invent them and build this country to be the great powerhouse it will be). Roll up the sleeves and lets get to work building this energy corridor that 85% of Canadians voted for. Re-invent the industries that were destroyed by free trade over the past fourty years and get our youth working at meaningful work not sitting behind a desk staring at computers. The Americans will always be our friends though and for some of us our cousins!

So today is another research day. Yesterday I completed the fifth sibling's extractions from the Living DNA site. There are 230 new files to put into my databases and I have completed the first couple of them yesterday.  I have one new folder that will include all of those files that demonstrated endogamy and have already built the file structure for that as they will primarily be part of the Knight family (my great grandmother (wife of Edward Blake) and includes a number of family lines - Knight, Arnold, Butt, Ellis, and a couple of other ones where blocks of data are composed of sticky pieces of DNA coming down from these ancestors and looking like just one grandparent but are in reality coming down from several different great great great grandparents and can be readily distinguished and separated. These particular matches will not form part of the larger system that I use looking at new matches but rather just to illustrate the areas where endogamy is occurring and lets me slot these matches into the correct family line coming down from those 3x great grandparents. 

The smoke  slowly dissipating with Air Quality now at 69 which is still above good but not too bad. It is just 23 degrees celsius but feels like 28 degrees celsius apparently and rain is coming likely as the humidity is 94%. 

Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles are next and then breakfast.  

 

 

 

An afternoon of golfing

 We did eighteen holes of golf yesterday (well I only did 14 by then I had had it and didn't want to be in the way so just watched as my daughter played her last four holes. We didn't golf last summer at all so it was two years but it was a lovely day for a walk and I thoroughly enjoyed my walk and what golf I did do. The golf course was very busy yesterday but kept moving along. 

Looking out this morning at what little of the sky is actually visible. The one side of the window is pretty much completely blocked and about 95% of the other window although it is bright enough to type without turning on the light at 5:30 a.m.   

Perhaps today some kayaking and walking (the walking for me) as I do enjoy a walk along the beach in the summer. It was very busy last weekend and pretty much every parking spot was taken up. We have a pass which allows us to park for that minimum fee but does not promise a parking spot but it is handy not to have to stand in line and collect your parking pass plus we generally go three or four times a week so is probably cheaper. 

Worked on the Living DNA matches yesterday and I am on page 7 of the third siblings matches. Hope to complete that set of matches today and move on to the fourth sibling. I also want to start to work on the files to be used for phasing of the grandparents and great grandparents. I anticipate a few changes here and there mostly created by the endogamy in our lines particularly the Knight family and the families that feed into it namely Butt, Arnold, Ellis and a couple of other ones. But also the Routledge family which tended to marry second cousins or greater through the generations (my 3x great grandparents were 2nd cousins once removed - Thomas Routledge and Elizabeth (Routledge) Routledge. The Oakshaw branch of the Routledge family were particularly known for their close marriages through the centuries. But also Nicholas Blake married his first cousins Margaret (Blake) Blake and later Richard Blake married Joan (Blake) Blake but their relationship is less obvious (she could be a Blake from the Andover Blake family or from the Calne Blake family.  Then further back the Blake name itself in the Andover Blake family was acquired likely in the late 1200s/early 1300s when I postulate that a daughter of Richard le Blak married a John (no surname known) of Knights Enham. To me it is a logical statement as choosing the surname Blake when it was already held by several different well known families in the British Isles seemed rather strange but the advantage to a Norman marriage would have been huge for sure in now-Norman England having been conquered by William of Normandy in 1066! By the early 1300s most of the large land holdings were in Norman hands although the actual property holdings further down remained basically the same and many of the large landowners under King Harold retained their lands in return for swearing fealty to the Norman Kings. 

Perhaps outside and more work on the weeds - I need to weed the bricks along the sides of the laneway and a little weeding out front. One bag of weed pullings went out to the garbage yesterday. That cleared out the rhubarb patch and raspberry patch in the back right garden patch. Never an end of weed pulling for sure. The hostas keep the weeds down along the right side but the left side needs a lot of work. The sunflowers are growing now and very visible - my daughter hoed out the large weeds but left a little greenery with hopes that the rabbits wouldn't eat up all the sunflowers before they get to grow!

Up early and will have a nap a little later so that I am ready for a good long walk in the afternoon! Slowly approaching 80 and a nap on some days might just be beneficial. Tea to drink and solitaire puzzles to do.  

Attended the DNA meeting - Alexa is a great way to remember

The DNA meeting was interesting. I tend not to get too into matching lengths that are less than 25 centimorgans but some of these lengths do pass intact generation to generation and down the cousin paths. It is surprising sometimes although mostly seen in endogamy which I have in my Knight/Ellis/Arnold/Butt families so that the matches can be quite large as much as second cousin but they are actually fourth cousins and it is these stubborn pieces that simply pass to everyone it would appear. These families all lived in the Winterbourne Valley of Dorset in a series of villages that are all about one to two kilometres distant from each other. In my families a number of siblings married the siblings in another family (Knight and Butt) and they were already related further back thus creating a huge collapsing pedigree which I tend to think of as endogamy but not quite the same as found in some ethnic families that are closely related. It is more of a collapsing pedigree. I have that in this line and again in the Routledge line where my 3x great grandparents were both Routledge and both of the Oakshaw Routledge family from Bewcastle, Cumberland. All of those Routledge families may collapse back into one set of grandparents. I stopped working on it when my 7th cousin Thomas Routledge took it over.

I did a little survey listening to the DNA meeting as well on my five sibling results and discovered that a thesis put forward that there is an increasing tendency for whole lengths of chromosome to be passed intact from one generation to the next as parents age was actually right on. Since my parents are twelve years apart I did a quick calculation and discovered that there was an 80% chance that the passage by my father of an entire length of chromosome to one of us as compared to only a 20% chance that the same would be true of my mother and actually there are very few lengths of chromosome that are singly passed on my mother's side (only four out of 22) but on my father's side looking at all five of us and summing up there were 17 out of 22 chromosomes. Of course this is divided over five siblings and over 22 chromosomes. That is interesting I suspect from a medical point of view perhaps. The longer the length perhaps the better because you do not split lengths. Makes sense. Anyway interesting and thought provoking as if I didn't already have enough thinking to do. I actually received the entire length unbroken of one of my chromosome 1s from my father which was from his father but could be a combination from his parents (Edward Blake and Maria Jane (Knight) Blake). I would need to look at all my matches (and I have a lot actually as many members of my Blake family have tested at all of the different sites giving a lovely combination (most (more than 95%) are living in England to this day). Only my grandfather and his brother came to Canada with the rest remaining in England (he had eleven siblings).

Today I continue with the Siderfin book and I am reaching towards the end of the 11th generation. I am into the Pincombe family now and it is about four pages and then another perhaps twelve pages to complete the entire generation leaving me with the final generation which will not include anything beyond 1920. Then I can make a decision on the autosomal DNA chapter. Footnote the appendices if I think that is appropriate - these are primarily chunks of material from James Sanders book and what may have been very apparent 100 + years ago to the reader does sometimes need a little extra explanation. 

On to the proofreading and indexing as I go. Breakfast time.  Church on You-Tube today - All Saints. All Saints day is actually November 1 and I used to go to Church before School for some services in my High School days. I always loved that service remembering the Saints of the Church.

New Directions

Life has turned around a new corner for me and I am sitting back and looking at the workload that I have assigned to myself. I want to do it a little differently to match my lifestyle.

Firstly, I want to continue blogging Blake wills and will try to get back to that at least 10 wills per month (I am a person who lives by numbers, I learn numerically and I live numerically - just me).

Secondly, I want to fix up an error that I have recently discovered in my Legacy charting. When I upgraded to Legacy 8 from Legacy 7 I seemed to have shifted the way that I opened and saved my files resulting in a set of duplicate files which contained changes somewhat erratically. Recently discovered after my busy year as co-treasurer of the OGS Conference 2017 (and there is still work to do; not yet finished as a final trial balance needs to be done and then the audit).

Thirdly, along with fixing that error I want to produce a new family chart to use with my DNA matching on the various services that I have tested at (along with my siblings). I am finding it very handy to have all this information and matching but it would be even more meaningful if my charting was consistent and so that is another one of my goals from this new direction.

Fourthly, I want to continue with my one name studies of Blake and Pincombe but I am in the process of teasing some of this information out of my personal records as over the past fourteen years of doing genealogy (yes amazingly I have now been at this for fourteen years!) so that I am able to hand off, at some point in the future, all of my records to the Guild in the form of DVDs to either be picked up by another as a one name study or into their archives for a future researcher who will do the same as I did - pick up the traces of work that someone else has done in the past.

Fifthly, I will continue writing my family story. I have "completed" the story of my generation, my parent's generation (although family get togethers continue to add new information to their stories), my grandparent's generation (new records add to this information and family get togethers) and my great grandparents including all of their children tracing them down as close to the present as I am able (a few exciting matches have lately come my way continuing to prove that the paper research that I have done is right on). Susan Courage, and I hope she doesn't mind my mentioning her name, has emerged as one of my 6th cousins 2x removed where we share 5x great grandparents Ellis Ellis and Sarah Wellspring (our family DNA match is with her sister but none the less very exciting to have found a cousin amongst the people that I have actually come to know). But now I am into my 2x great grandparents and continue to work on John Blake and Ann Farmer and their ten children, 49 grandchildren and hundreds of great grandchildren I am still pulling out of the records. I have been nearly a year working on this line!

Sarah Ellis (1756 - 1844)

52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 5

Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett, Alderman, Ann (unknown), Sherwood, unknown, Habberfield, Collings, Rawlings, Tanner, Dove, Morgan, Lywood, Canham, unknown, Peck, Pincombe, Charley, Rowcliffe, Pearse, Rew, Moggridge, Siderfin, Kent, Gray, Hilton, Cobb, Sproxton, Routledge, Tweddle, Routledge, Routledge, (unknown) Buller, unknown, Beard, Hemsley, Welch, Brockhouse, Cheatle, Woodcock, unknown Taylor, unknown, Harborne, Lewis, Roberts, Croxall, Lawley, unknown

Sarah Ellis is one of my people I found near the beginning of my research. I knew that their son Ellis Knight was my 3x great grandfather and although not known to my grandfather personally he knew of this family.  Ellis Knight married Eleanor Knight 29 May 1804 at Spetisbury and Spetisbury was a village name ingrained in my memory from earliest day. The name had a ring to it and just stuck in there. I knew that this couple had had 13 children (referred to as a baker's dozen!) and that my father's great grandfather Samuel Knight, known to him as a child and already mentioned earlier in my blogs, was their son. Samuel Knight married Louisa Butt and she was born at Spetisbury and so the name was known to me as my grandfather talked about his grandmother Louisa born at Spetisbury and that her mother Eleanor not quite known to him as she died five years before he was born was also born at Spetisbury.

I had a good handle on this Ellis family probably because the surname was used as a forename in the family. But back to Sarah and she was baptized 5 Aug 1756 at Winterborne Stickland. Sarah married William Knight 7 Aug 1775 at Winterborne Stickland and seven of their eight children were baptized at Winterborne Stickland, namely:

William baptized 21 Jul 1776 (born 15 Jul 1776)
Elias baptized 24 Feb 1779 (born 22 Feb 1779), buried there 24 Feb 1779
Ellis baptized 17 Jan 1783
George baptized 6 Mar 1785
Samuel baptized 4 May 1788
Sarah baptized 27 Dec 1792 (married George Morris 1 Mar 1824 at Winterborne Stickland)
Stephen baptized ?
Joseph baptized 9 May 1799

Stephen is somewhat of a mystery as I can not find his baptism but there appears to be enough proof that they indeed had a son Stephen.

Sarah Ellis died 9 Jun 1844 at Winterborne Stickland and was buried there 13 Jun 1844. Sarah was the daughter of Ellis Ellis and Sarah Wellspring. The name Ellis Ellis quite intrigued me and I could not find his baptism for a long time actually until the Dorset records came up on Ancestry. Then I found that he was baptized 22 Jul 1719 at Winterborne Stickland and married to Sarah Wellspring 7 Mar 1738 at Winterborne Stickland. This couple had seven children all baptized at Winterborne Stickland, namely:

William baptized 29 Jan 1739 (married Mary Arnold 23 Mar 1761 at Blandford St Mary)
Jane baptized 28 Sep 1742 (married Melchizedek Pitman 2 Jul 1762 at Winterborne Stickland)
Elizabeth baptized 3 Feb 1744 (married John Upshall 16 Apr 1770 at Winterborne Stickland)
John baptized 18 Jun 1745, buried 18 Jun 1745
John baptized 14 Jun 1747
Susanna baptized 8 Dec 1751 (married Thomas Cocks 16 Jul 1772 at Winterborne Stickland)
Sarah baptized 5 Aug 1756 (married William Knight 7 Aug 1775 at Winterborne Stickland)

 I have found 29 grandchildren thus far for this couple (I have not yet located any children for John).

Continuing to look at the Ellis family Ellis Ellis was the son of Thomas Ellis and Mary Bound and they married 27 Dec 1703 at Winterborne Stickland. This couple baptized 6 children at Winterborne Stickland, namely:

Elizabeth  baptized 12 Nov 1704 (born 16 Oct 1704), buried 2 Mar 1705 at Winterborne Stickland
Mary baptized 29 Jun 1706 (born 17 Jun 1706)
John baptized 20 Mar 1708 (born 18 Feb 1708)
Thomas baptized 27 Jul 1712 (born 9 Jul 1712), buried 29 Aug 1712 at Winterborne Stickland
William baptized 29 Aug 1715 (born 24 Aug 1715), buried 2 Apr 1721 at Winterborne Stickland
Ellis baptized 22 Jul 1719

Their story was certainly one of loss as only three children appear to have survived although I have not yet found any details for Mary and John beyond their baptisms as there are too many marriages for Mary Ellis/John Ellis and not close enough to Winterborne Stickland.

When we visited the valley of the Winterbourn in 2008 I found it to be rather a beautiful setting. There was a slight mist over the rolling hills although you could see for miles. All farmland and possibly that was what it looked like then as well. What did Thomas Ellis do at Winterborne Stickland and where did he live before Winterborne Stickland? Both are mysteries to me. There are baptisms for a Thomas Ellis in the right time frame but all are in the Dorchester area. Because he named his first son John could he be the Thomas Ellis baptized 11 Nov 1687 at Longbredy although would have only been 16 at marriage? Could he be the Thomas son of Thomas baptized 5 Dec 1662 at Rampisham? He named his second son Thomas. A mystery not yet solved.

Ancestry of Sarah Ellis (including my line down to me)

1. Elizabeth BLAKE
2. Ernest Edward George BLAKE (b 20 Aug 1904) - Eastleigh Hampshire England
3. Samuel George Blake (b 10 Feb 1875) - Upper Clatford Hampshire England
4. Maria Jane KNIGHT (b 27 Jan 1849) - Turnworth Dorset England
5. Samuel KNIGHT (b 25 May 1828) - Turnworth Dorset England
6. Ellis KNIGHT (b 17 Jan 1783) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
7. Sarah ELLIS (b 5 Aug 1756) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
8. Ellis ELLIS (b 22 Jul 1719) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
9. Thomas Ellis

It would be exciting to find more about Thomas and his grand daughter Sarah and perhaps in time that may happen.

Research for the Vincent Family

The Vincent family of Shapwick is still somewhat of a mystery:  I believe that Ann Vincent (married to John Knight and the mother of Eleanor Knight married to Ellis Knight) was born/baptized at Dewlish 26 Oct 1755. If this is correct then her parents were James Vincent and Ann Moulam who married at Dewlish 28 Nov 1733 and Ann must have been one of their last children. Their first daughter named Ann died in 1752.

John Knight and Ann Vincent married 9 Jun 1783 at Shapwick but a check of the parish registers at Shapwick does not reveal a Vincent family although the priest notes that Ann Vincent was of the parish and reports John Knight to be of Spetisbury parish which is correct.

Possible reasons for Ann being in Shapwick (both signed the marriage registration) she was perhaps employed or living with relatives. Her parents were elderly by 1783 as they married in 1733 so both could have been in their early 70s or older if still living in 1783. Finding their burials would be handy and  I did check the parish registers for Shapwick burials but did not find anything between 1750 and 1790. Ann would have been 28 years of age when she married the 26 year old John Knight. Although Dewlish is not close to Spetisbury it is only 3 miles from Milton Abbas, 4 miles from winterbourne Whitchurch, 5 miles from Winterbourne Clenstone where a number of my other relatives lived and in particular only 6 miles from Winterborne Stickland where William Knight and Sarah Ellis were married just eight years earlier. It is their son Ellis who married Eleanor the daughter of John Knight and Ann Vincent.

Another interesting item found whilst searching the Dewlish parish registers was the Wellspring family. Ellis Ellis married Sarah Wellspring 7 Mar 1737 at Winterborne Stickland and I have not yet discovered the parents of Sarah Wellspring.

My next research day I will continue to hunt out references to the Vincent family. I shall perhaps check My Heritage and Genes Reunited for matches and email these if found.

Ellis family of Winterborne Stickland Research Day

William Knight (father of Ellis Knight who married Eleanor Knight) married Sarah Ellis 7 Aug 1775 at Winterborne Stickland. Sarah was baptized 5 Aug 1756 at Winterborne Stickland and she was buried 13 Jun 1844 at Winterborne Stickland. She was eighty eight years of age and outlived her husband by seventeen years. She did not live quite long enough to see my great grandmother Maria Jane Knight born in 1849. But according to my father this was a family that remembered its history quite well. For the most part this line worked the Glebe lands of the Church first in Winterborne Stickland and later in Turnworth where his great grandfather Samuel Knight was still living when my father was a boy. They were agricultural labourers for the most part although did have some interesting sidelines. Charles Butt (my grandfather Blake's great grandfather was a methodist preacher along with his agricultural work). But more on the Butt family on their research day.

I want to use this time to extract the Ellis records from the Winterborne Stickland parish registers which are available on Ancestry from 1600 to 1812 as well as later time periods but I will first concentrate on the time up to 1812 as that is when my Ellis family interests me mostly and in this case I am going to work backwards from 1812:

Banns
1783 No. 59 Banns of Marriage between Ellis Ellis of Winterbourn Stickland Widower and Mary Drake of the same Parish Widow were published on the three Sundays underwritten: That is to say, On Sunday the 25th day of May by John Richardson Rector, On Sunday the 1st day of June by John Richardson Rector and On Sunday, the 8th day of June by John Richardson Rector

1775 No. 42 Banns of Marriage between William Knight of Winterbourn Stickland and Sarah Ellis of the same Parish were published on the three Sundays underwritten:  That is to say, On Sunday, the 2erd Day of July by J Richardson Rector, On Sunday, the 30th Day of July by J Richardson Rector, On Sunday, the 6th Day of August by J Richardson Rector

 1772 No. 36 Banns of Marriage between Thomas Cocks of the Parish of Shilling Oakford Sojourner and Susanna Ellis of the Parish of Winterbourn Stickland were published on the three Sundahs underwritten: That is to say, On Sunday the 21st day of June by me J Richardson Rector, On Sunday the 28th day of June by me J Richardson Rector, On Sunday, the 5 day of July by me J Richardson Rector

1770 No. 25 Banns of Marriage between John Upsal of Winterbourn Stickland Sojourner and Elizabeth Ellis of the same Parish were published on the three Sundays underwritten: That is to say, On Sunday, the 1st Day of April by me J Richardson Rector, On Sunday the 8th day of April by me J Richardson Rector, On Sunday the 15th of April by me J Richardson Rector

1766 No. 19 Banns of Marriage between Thomas Wiffin and Mary Ellis were published on the three Sundays underwritten: That is to say, On Sunday, the 19th of April, On Sunday the 26 of April, On Sunday, the 3 of May [The Rector never filled this in so perhaps did not occur, no marriage recorded at Winterbourne Stickland and I do not know who Mary Ellis is at the moment]

Marriages
Ellis Ellis of the Parish of Winterbourn Stickland Widower and Mary Drake of the Parish of Stickland Widow married in this church by Banns this twelfth Day of June in the Year One thousand seven hundred and eighty three by me John Richardson Rector. The Marriage was solemnized b etween Us The mark of Ellis Ellis, the mark of Mary Drake. In the presence of The mark of Sarah Fry, Elizabeth Noris

William Knight of the parish of Winterbourn Stickland and Sarah Ellis of the same parish married in this Church by Banns this seventh day of August in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five by me John Richardson Rector, This Marriage was solemnized between us, The mark of William Knight, the mark of Sarah Ellis, In the presence of Henry Main, the mark of Thomas
 
Thomas Cocks of the Parish of Shilling Oakford Sojourner and Susanna Ellis of the Parish of Stickland married in this Church by Banns this sixteenth day of July in the year One thousand seven hundred and seventy two by me John Richardson Rector, This marriage was solemnized between us, The mark of Thomas cocks, The Mark of Susanna Ellis, In the presence of John Walters, The mark of Roger Tuffin

John Upsal of the Parish of Winterborne Stickland Sojourner and Elizabeth Ellis of the same parish married in this church by banns this sixteenth day of April in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy by me John Richardson Rector This marriage was solemnized between us John Upshall , the mark of Elizabeth Ellis In the presence of Robert Upshall, Robert Cross


Burials
Sarah Ellis was buried 25 Jan 1780 affidavit of her Burial in Woollen only was made before the Rev Mr Marsh

Mary Ellis, widow was buried 3 Feb 1774 Affidavit of her burial in Woolen only and made before the Revd Mr Stephens Rector of Molcombe [Is this the wife of Thomas Ellis and mother to Ellis Ellis?]

I completed the extractions from 1770 to 1812.I did not find any records for John Ellis the only brother of my 3x great grandmother Sarah Ellis. I can go back one more generation readily at Winterbourn Stickland for the Ellis family as the parents of Ellis Ellis were Thomas Ellis and Mary Bound and they baptized six children at Winterbourne Stickland as well as being married there 27 Dec 1703. Three of the children were buried as infants or young children with Ellis Ellis (my 4x great grandfather), his older sister Mary and older brother John appearing to survive. The Banns above for Mary are not likely to be her as she was baptized 29 Jun 1706 (born 17 Jun) at Winterbourne Stickland. John was baptized 20 Mar 1707 (born 18 Feb 1707) at Winterbourne Stickland.

Will of Francis Buller Esquire of Westminster, Middlesex - The National Archives PROB 11/903/207, probated 19 Nov 1764

I have mis-sorted this will as it actually belongs with the Westminster wills but since I have begun I shall carry on after all the last one that I did was for Butler instead of Buller! This one does rather interest me as it is probated in 1764 (one year after the projected birth of Christopher Buller my 3x great grandfather).

There is an affidavit attached to this will which accurately places this family into the Cornwall family. The Testator is an Uncle to Francis Buller of the Inner Court. I believe this to be Sir Francis Buller, Baronet Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. That would mean that this Francis is a son of John Francis Buller and certainly his sister Rebecca (his executrix) married Sir Charles Watson and was identified as Rebecca Watson, widow. An Elizabeth Buller is mentioned and this is perhaps his sister who married the Reverend John Sturgess, D.D. John Buller was the second son of John Francis Buller and he remained at Pelynt and many of his descendants were in the Military and the first Buller will is one of the grandsons of John Buller (Sir Edward Buller of Trenant Park). I rather believe this too does not lead me back to Christopher but does provide more details on the Buller family of Cornwall.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/903/207
Testator: Francis Buller, Esquire
Place: Westminster, Middlesex, England
Date of document: 30 Jun 1764, probated 19 Nov 1764
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[Margin]: Francis
[Margin]: Buller

1    The last Will of me
2    Francis Buller of Abingdon Street Westminster Esquire
3    Imprimis I Give to my Sister Watson and Brother John
4    Buller all my Manors Messuages Lands Tenements and Real
5    Estate of what Nature soever and also all my personal Estate
6    to hold to them their heirs Executors and Adm[inistrat]ors In Trust to Sell
7    and Dispose thereof and convert the whole into ready Money
8    and that they do thereout when and pay the Sums and Legacys
9    following Viz [a vi]t the Sum of Fifteen hundred pounds to her my said
10    Sister Watson the Sum of Two hundred pounds to him my said
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11    Brother John To the Rev Jos: Foot of Anthony One hundred
12    pounds To Mr James Coulthard Fifty pounds over and above w[ha]t
13    I may owe him To my Servant Susanna Mason Forty pounds To
14    my Servant Charity Youlin Twenty pounds and to my Servant
15    Daniel Ellis Twenty pounds to be paid at his Age of 21 and all
16    my Wearing Apparell I forgive Wm Ellis the one hundred
17    pounds he owes me on Note and the Interest I desire that the
18    twenty pounds Given by my late Dear Wife's Will to Wm Ellis
19    of [blank] Son of the said Wm Ellis may be paid I give the
20    Diamond Ring which I Generally Wear in Memory of my said
21    late Wife to her Neice Miss Gertrude Bampfylde And I
22    desire that the then residue after payment of my Debts and
23    Legacies and Funeral Expences be Equally Distributed between and
24    paid to or retained by her my said sister Watson and Brothers
25    John and William and Sister Elizabeth But the above bequest
26    to my Brother William is on Condition that he do relinquish and
27    release all such Right and Interest as he may have to or in
28    a certain Copyhold Lease at West Anthony and also pay or
29    allow to my Executors the Five hundred pounds he owes me and
30    my Will is that all my Debts not carrying Interest be paid within
31    3 Months next after my Death I Desire that my Funeral may be
32    as private as Decency will admit but I leave the same entirely
33    to the Discretion of my Executors And I do hereby appoint my said
34    Sister Watson and Brother John Executors of this my Will In
35    Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this 30 Day of
36    June 1764 Francis Buller Signed and published by the s[ai]d
37    Francis Buller as and for his last Will in the presence of us
38    who in his presence and in the presence of each other have
39    hereto subscribed our Names as Witnesses, John Cowell, John
40    Shears, Charles Blore
41    M[emorandu]m this 30th June 1764 the Sum of three hundred
42    pounds was remitted me by Mr John Peke of Antony parish to
43    be applied on his account and the same stands placed to my Credit
44    in the Shop of Mess[ieur]s Backwell and Co Now I declare that the
45    said 300 li is Mr Pekes property and desire it may be paid or
46    applied as he shall Direct Frs: Buller Witness
47    James Coulthard
48    A Codicil to the Will of me Francis Buller Esq[uie]r
49    Whereas by my last Will bearing date on or about the
50    thirtieth Day of June last I have made my Brother John an
51    Executor and also Given him a Legacy and bequeathed part of my
52    Residuary Estate to him And Whereas he my said Brother and I as
53    co-exec[u]tors of our late Father have respectively received and paid
54    several Sums and possessed several parts in respect out and on
55    account of our said late Father's Estates the accounts of which have
56    not yet been Closed Now in order to remove all Disputes relating
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57    thereto And I being well Satisfied that I am not Indebted to my
58    said Brother on account of such Executorship I do hereby Will and
59    Direct that my said Brother John shall and Do before he be permitted
60    to prove my said Will or in any wise Intermeddle with  my Executors on
61    one or more proper Deeds or Instruments effectually Release
62    and Discharge my Estate from all Claims and Demands which he
63    can (or may have) thereon for or on account of my receiving or
64    possessing or disposing of this my said late Father's Estate the Effects
65    or otherwise Intermedling therein And in case of his Neglect
66    or refusal for three Months after my Death so to do then I revoke
67    all Benefits intended him by my said Will and also the appointment
68    of him as an Executor and Direct that such benefits and bequests
69    Go to my older Residuary Legatees and that my Sister Watson do
70    remain Sole Executrix and Sole Trustee;
71    But on his Giving such Release and Discharge as aforesaid
72    Then I Will and Direct that he also releases and discharges from
73    all Demands which For my Estate may have on him on account of
74    his Receipts and payments touching the said Executorship or on any other account
75    It being my Intent and Meaning that the
76    accounts between him and me touching our respective receipts
77    and payments relating to such Executorship and all other accounts
78    up to the Day of my Death be Considered and taken as Settled and
79    Closed. But nevertheless I do not Mean that my Demands on the
80    outstanding of future Effects of my Said Father should be relinquished
81    And I give five pounds to the poor of the parish where I
82    Shall be Buried As to my Brother Buller I have tried
83    many Marks of affection and friendship from and I think my
84    self Greatly obliged to him on many Occasions But as a
85    Considerable advantage will accrue to him on my Death I therefore
86    hope he'll not be displeased at my not making any Bequest
87    in his Favour In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this
88    11 July 1764. F. Buller Signed and published by the said
89    Francis Buller as a Codicil to his Will in the presence of us
90    who in his presence and in the presence of each other have
91    hereto set our Names as Witnesses the Words other account
92    and the words (In all other accounts) having first interlined near the
93    bottom of the first side Thomas Wildman John Cowell John Shears
94    15th Nov 1764
95    Appeared personally Francis Buller of the Inner
96    Temple London Esq[uie]r and being Sworn on the holy Evangelists
97    made Oath that the well known Francis Buller late of the parish
98    of St Margaret Westminster in the County of Middlesex Esquire
99    Deceased he being the Deponents Uncle and the Deponent is well
100    acquainted with his the Deceased's manner and Character of hand
101    writing having often seen him write and having now carefully viewed
102    the Name Frs Buller Subscribed to the Codicil or paper
103    Writing hereto annexed beginning thus Mm this 30th
104    June, 1764 and ending thus as he shall Direct Saith
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105    that he Doth verily believe the said Name and Subscript,
106    Frs Buller to be of the proper hand Writing of the said Francis
107    Buller Esq[uie]r deceased, Fra[nci]s Buller same Day, the said Francis
108    Buller Esq[uie]r was duly Sworn to the Truth of this affidavit before me
109    Geo. Harris Surrogate present H. Stevens Jan Not Pub
110    This Will proved at London (with two Codicils) the
111    Nineteenth Day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand
112    Seven hundred and Sixty four before the Worshipful William Compton
113    Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful George Hay also
114    Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the prerogative
115    Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of Rebecca
116    Watson Widow the Sister of the deceased and one of the Executors
117    named in the Will to whom Administration was Granted of all and
118    Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased She
119    having been first Sworn duly to Administer (power reserved of
120    making the like Grant to John Buller Esq[uie]r the Brother of the
121    said Deceased and other Executor named in the said Will and Second
122    Codicil when he Shall apply for the same) Agreeable to the Tenor of
123    the said Codicils

Will of Thomazine Buller of Morvall - The National Archives PROB 11/562/239, probated 21 Feb 1718

This is the last of the wills in Cornwall although I did not collect the wills from the 1800s on as I didn't really think this was my line and my Christopher Buller was born circa 1763. Thomazine names her sisters and her nephew. This Thomazine is the daughter of John Buller and Anne Coode. She did not marry. She does not mention any other relatives but is already second cousin to the Shillingham Buller family.

She is sister to Elizabeth Worth, Ann Parker and Mary Dodson. Mary Ann Harris is her niece (daughter of her brother John Buller).

She was named in her father's will (John Buller of Morval and he was married first to Anne Coode of Morval). The fortunes of the Shillingham Buller family passed to John Buller of Morval.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 5 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/562/239
Testator: Thomazine Buller
Place: Morval, Cornwall, England
Date of document:  18 Oct 1717, probated 21 Feb 1718
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[Margin]: T[estament]
[Margin]: Thomazina Buller

1    In the name of God Amen I
2    Thomazine Buller of Morvall in the County of Cornwall
3    Spinster being sick and weake in body but of sound and
4    disposing mind and memorie (thanks be unto God) doe make
5    and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in manner and
6    forme following hereby revokeing all former Wills by me
7    made either in word or writing First I commend my Soule
8    unto the hands of Almighty god my Creater and my Body to
9    Christian Buriall to be decently interred Item I give and devise
10    unto my sister Worth Three hundred pounds, and to Mrs
11    Harris the wife of Christopher Harris of Hayne Esquire
12    One hundred pounds Item I give unto my Sister Parker five pounds
13    and to her three Children Five pounds each Item I give unto my
14    late sister Dodsons Children five pounds each I give unto Theophila
15    Roberts my Maid Tenn pounds I give unto John Pound
16    Tenn pounds and to his wife Tenn pounds I give unto John Bedlake
17    five pounds, I give unto Mrs Ellis the wife of Mr. John Ellis five
18    pounds I give unto the poore of Morvall Parish Five pounds
19    I give unto all my Nephew's Servants living in Morvall house
20    Twenty shillings each I give unto Mr James Buller the
21    sonne of my Nephew John Francis Buller Tenn pounds Item
22    all the rest of my Goods and Chattells rights and Creditts Monys
23    due to me on Mortgages or otherwise I give and devise unto my
25    Nephew John Francis Buller Esquire who of this my last Will
26    and Testament I make my Sole Executor, willing directing and
27    comanding him to pay all my debts Legacies and funerall charges
28    In Witnesse whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
29    set my hand and seale this Eighteenth day of October Anno
30    d[omi]ni 1717 the signe of Thomazin Buller Signed Sealed published
31    and declared by the said Thomazin Buller to be her last Will
32    and Testament in presence of Simpson Deer Mary Bodey
33    Joseph Toms

Descendants of Henry Knight of Spetisbury, Dorset, England

Whilst glancing at my blog today I noticed that the Knight family in Dorset is attracting some attention. I did eventually put together some of the OPC records for Spetisbury and the Knight family there and it does appear that My Ellis Knight and Eleanor Knight were cousins as my grandfather had mentioned. They were not, however, first cousins. I have extracted from legacy the narrative descendant description for Henry Knight at Spetisbury as follows (the information on Ellis Knight and Eleanor Knight is duplicated because they share the same great great grandparents Henry Knight and Mary Oliver). Having posted this I now realize that the records prior to 1813 are now up on Ancestry and decided to spend a bit of time looking at that although do not really have any spare time but I will make changes in the following:

Descendants of Henry Knight

Henry Knight [16859].

Henry married Mary Oliver [16860] [MRIN: 5858] on 25 Dec 1727 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.  He was Parish Clerk at Spetisbury (interestingly enough one of his great grandsons was Parish Clerk at Turnworth for 30 years). They had 15 children with the following reaching adulthood: Henry, Thomas, William and David.

David Knight [16857] was christened on 2 May 1736 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.

David married Martha Butler [16858] [MRIN: 5857] on 17 Feb 1756 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.  They had several children and I will add the details later: John.

John Knight [526] was born in 1757 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England, was christened on 2 Oct 1757 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England, and was buried on 17 Nov 1826 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.

Noted events in his life were:

•  He appears on the Spetisbury Militia List 1787 DRO MIC/R/500 in 1787 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England. John Knight listed as a bricklayer with one child.

John married Ann Vincent [527] [MRIN: 158], daughter of James Vincent [16861] and Ann Moulam [16862], on 9 Jun 1783 in Shapwick, Dorset, England. Ann was born in Oct 1755 in Dewlish, Dorset, England and was christened on 26 Oct 1755 in Dewlish, Dorset, England. They had five children: Joseph, Eleanor, Sophia, Martha and John.

Marriage Notes:  Parish Records Collection - marriage - Find My Past

Day: 9
Month: Jun
Year: 1783
Groom Forenames: John
Groom Surname: KNIGHT
Groom notes:
Grooms parish: of Spetisbury
Bride Forenames: Ann
Bride Surname: VINCENT
Bride notes:
Brides parish: By licence:
Place: Shapwick
Dedication:
County: Dorset
Country: England
Witnesses: Henry WHITE, Malby CALCOTT

Joseph Knight [16863] was born in Aug 1785 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England and was christened on 24 Aug 1785 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.

Eleanor Knight [17]1 was born in Dec 1786 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England,1 was christened on 12 Dec 1786 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England, died on 25 Sep 1870 in Turnworth, Dorset, England aged 83, and was buried on 28 Sep 1870 in Turnworth, Dorset, England.

Noted events in her life were:

•  1851 Census: Census 1851, Jun 1851, Turnworth, Dorset, England.4 Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Dorset County, Blandford RD, Turnworth Village, Class: HO107; Piece: 1853; Folio: 5; Page: 3; Household schedule 11, Samuel Knight family, GSU roll: 221000.

  Elena Knight   Age:67    Estimated birth year:abt 1784   Relation:Mother    Gender:Female   Where born:Spetisbury, Dorset, England     Civil parish:Turnworth    County/Island:Dorset    Country:England        Registration district:Blandford    Sub-registration district:Milton Abbas    ED, institution, or vessel:1      Household schedule number:11  Household Members:Name AgeElena Knight  67 Luisa Knight  22 Maria Knight  1 Samuel Knight  23
•  1861 Census: Census 1861, Jun 1861, Turnworth, Dorset, England.5 Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Dorset county, Blandford RD, Turnworth village, Class: RG9; Piece: 1332; Folio: 4; Page: 1; Household schedule 5, Samuel Knight family, GSU roll: 542797.

  Ellen Knight   Age:76    Estimated birth year:abt 1785   Relation:Boarder    Gender:Female   Where born:Spettisbury, Dorset, England     Civil parish:Turnworth    County/Island:Dorset    Country:England        Registration district:Blandford    Sub-registration district:Milton Abbas    Household Members:Name AgeElizabeth Knight  9 Ellen Knight  76 Henry Knight  3 Louisa Knight  34 Maria Knight  11 Mary Ann Knight  7 Samuel Knight  34

Eleanor married Ellis Knight [16]6 [MRIN: 11], son of William Knight [518] and Sarah Ellis [519], on 29 May 1804 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England. Ellis was born on 17 Jan 1783 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, was christened on 17 Jan 1783 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, died on 24 Jan 1851 in Turnworth, Dorset, England aged 68, and was buried on 26 Jan 1851 in Turnworth, Dorset, England. They had 13 children: Ellis, George, Mary Ann, Samuel, Maria, Henry, Elizabeth, Edward, John, Thomas, Samuel, Martha and George.

Noted events in his life were:

•  1841 Census: Census 1841, 1841, Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England.10 Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Dorset County, Blandford RD, Turnworth Village, Class: HO107; Piece 290; Book: 7; Civil Parish: Turnworth; County: Dorset; Enumeration District: 5; Folio: ; Page: 15; Line: 15; Ellis Knight household, GSU roll: 241341.
  Elles Kinght[Ellis Knight]     Age:60    Estimated birth year:abt 1781   Gender:Male    Where born:Dorset, England     Civil parish:Turnworth    Hundred:Cranborne    County/Island:Dorset    Country:England        Registration district:Blandford    Sub-registration district:Milton Abbas     Household Members:Name AgeEdward Kinght  20 Eleanor Kinght  35 Elles Kinght  60 George Kinght  11 John Kinght  15 Martha Kinght  12 Samuel Kinght  14 Thomas Kinght  15   Name, age, occupation, born in Dorset
William Knight, 60, Ag Lab, yes
Elias Knight, 60, Ag Lab, yes
Ellen Knight, 20, -, yes  (age should be 55)
Martha Knight, 1, -, yes (age should be 11)


•  Family Lore: Discussion with Grandfather Samuel Blake, Grandpa mentioned one day when we were talking that one of his great grandparents (and he actually meant great great grandfather) had had 13 children (a baker's dozen and the conversation had resulted from a discussion of what a baker's dozen is!). Ellis and Eleanor did indeed have 13 children.

Sophia Knight [16866] was born in Sep 1789 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England and was christened on 25 Sep 1789 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.

Martha Knight [16865] was born in Oct 1796 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England and was christened on 8 Oct 1796 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.

John Knight [16864] was born in Nov 1800 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England and was christened on 30 Nov 1800 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.

William Knight [16886] was christened on 6 Jan 1733/34 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England. The original registers do not appear to help me with this William and I will have a longer look in January

William married and had one son William (this information doesn't have a reference and must check to see where I obtained it).

William Knight [518] was born in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, was christened in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, and was buried on 4 Mar 1827 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England.

William married Sarah Ellis [519] [MRIN: 155], daughter of Ellis Ellis [3005] and Sarah Wellspring [3006], on 7 Aug 1775 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England. Sarah was born in Jun 1756 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, was christened on 5 Aug 1756 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, died on 9 Jun 1844 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England aged 88, and was buried on 13 Jun 1844 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England. They had eight children: William, Elias, Ellis, George, Samuel, Stephen, Sarah and Joseph.

Marriage Notes:  Parish Records Collection - marriage

Day: 7
Month: Aug
Year: 1775
Groom Forenames: William
Groom Surname: KNIGHT
Bride Forenames: Sarah
Bride Surname: ELLIS
Brides parish: By licence:
Place: Winterborne Stickland
Dedication:
County: Dorset
Country: England
Witnesses: Henry HAIN, Thomas BENCH (x).

William Knight [529] was born on 15 Jul 1776 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, was christened on 21 Jul 1776 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, and was buried on 22 Sep 1841 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England.

Elias Knight [530] was born on 22 Feb 1779 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, was christened on 24 Feb 1779 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, and died on 24 Feb 1779 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England.

Ellis Knight [16]6 was born on 17 Jan 1783 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, was christened on 17 Jan 1783 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, died on 24 Jan 1851 in Turnworth, Dorset, England aged 68, and was buried on 26 Jan 1851 in Turnworth, Dorset, England

Noted events in his life were:

•  1841 Census: Census 1841, 1841, Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England.10 Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Dorset County, Blandford RD, Turnworth Village, Class: HO107; Piece 290; Book: 7; Civil Parish: Turnworth; County: Dorset; Enumeration District: 5; Folio: ; Page: 15; Line: 15; Ellis Knight household, GSU roll: 241341.
  Elles Kinght[Ellis Knight]     Age:60    Estimated birth year:abt 1781   Gender:Male    Where born:Dorset, England     Civil parish:Turnworth    Hundred:Cranborne    County/Island:Dorset    Country:England        Registration district:Blandford    Sub-registration district:Milton Abbas     Household Members:Name AgeEdward Kinght  20 Eleanor Kinght  35 Elles Kinght  60 George Kinght  11 John Kinght  15 Martha Kinght  12 Samuel Kinght  14 Thomas Kinght  15   Name, age, occupation, born in Dorset
William Knight, 60, Ag Lab, yes
Elias Knight, 60, Ag Lab, yes
Ellen Knight, 20, -, yes  (age should be 55)
Martha Knight, 1, -, yes (age should be 11)


•  Family Lore: Discussion with Grandfather Samuel Blake. Grandpa mentioned one day when we were talking that one of his great grandparents (and he actually meant great great grandfather) had had 13 children (a baker's dozen and the conversation had resulted from a discussion of what a baker's dozen is!). Ellis and Eleanor did indeed have 13 children.

Ellis married Eleanor Knight [17]1 [MRIN: 11], daughter of John Knight [526] and Ann Vincent [527], on 29 May 1804 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England.7 Eleanor was born in Dec 1786 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England,1 was christened on 12 Dec 1786 in Spetisbury, Dorset, England, died on 25 Sep 1870 in Turnworth, Dorset, England aged 83, and was buried on 28 Sep 1870 in Turnworth, Dorset, England.  They had 13 children: Ellis, George, Mary Ann, Samuel, Maria, Henry, Elizabeth, Edward, John, Thomas, Samuel, Martha and George.

Noted events in her life were:

•  1851 Census: Census 1851, Jun 1851, Turnworth, Dorset, England.4 Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Dorset County, Blandford RD, Turnworth Village, Class: HO107; Piece: 1853; Folio: 5; Page: 3; Household schedule 11, Samuel Knight family, GSU roll: 221000.

  Elena Knight   Age:67    Estimated birth year:abt 1784   Relation:Mother    Gender:Female   Where born:Spetisbury, Dorset, England     Civil parish:Turnworth    County/Island:Dorset    Country:England        Registration district:Blandford    Sub-registration district:Milton Abbas    ED, institution, or vessel:1      Household schedule number:11  Household Members:Name AgeElena Knight  67 Luisa Knight  22 Maria Knight  1 Samuel Knight  23
•  1861 Census: Census 1861, Jun 1861, Turnworth, Dorset, England.5 Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Dorset county, Blandford RD, Turnworth village, Class: RG9; Piece: 1332; Folio: 4; Page: 1; Household schedule 5, Samuel Knight family, GSU roll: 542797.

  Ellen Knight   Age:76    Estimated birth year:abt 1785   Relation:Boarder    Gender:Female   Where born:Spettisbury, Dorset, England     Civil parish:Turnworth    County/Island:Dorset    Country:England        Registration district:Blandford    Sub-registration district:Milton Abbas    ED, institution, or vessel:7      Household schedule number:5  Household Members:Name AgeElizabeth Knight  9 Ellen Knight  76 Henry Knight  3 Louisa Knight  34 Maria Knight  11 Mary Ann Knight  7 Samuel Knight  34

George Knight [531] was born in 1785 and was christened on 6 Mar 1785 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England.

Samuel Knight [532] was born in 1788 and was christened on 4 May 1788 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England.

Stephen Knight [533] was born in 1790 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, was christened on 16 Nov 1790 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, and died after 1881.Stephen married Mary Ruth [Knight] [3830] [MRIN: 1052] before 1818. Mary was born in 1794 in Wallop, Hampshire, England and died before 1881. They had seven children: Joseph, William, Martha, Stephen, Sarah, Eliza Amelia and Stephen.

Sarah Knight [534] was born in 1792 and was christened on 27 Dec 1792 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England.Sarah married George Morris [11916] [MRIN: 3428] on 1 Mar 1824 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England. George was born circa 1789 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England. They had three children: Samuel, Thomas and Hannah.

Joseph Knight [536] was born in 1799, was christened on 9 May 1799 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England, and was buried on 16 Mar 1835 in Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England

Ellis family of Winterborne Stickland

Talking about Family Finder brought me to the Ellis family in a discussion on the autosomal list serv. I decided to verify something about Ellis Ellis my 5x great grandfather and ended up discovering that Winterborne Stickland early parish records are now on Ancestry. An hour passed quickly!

Ellis Ellis's parents were Thomas Ellis and Mary Bound and they married 27 Dec 1703 at Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England. I haven't found any information on this couple at Winterborne Stickland yet. There are a lot of members of the Bound family there but few Ellis members. Thomas and Mary had six children of whom only three appear to have survived to adulthood with Ellis being the youngest child. Their children were Elizabeth, Mary, John, Thomas, William and Ellis (with Mary, John and Ellis appearing to survive to adulthood). I have not yet looked at Mary and John with regard to marriage or children but Ellis married Sarah Wellspring 7 Mar 1738 at Winterborne Stickland and they had seven children according to some family trees. I have not yet found a baptism for a William baptized around 1739 but I do have the information on Jane, Elizabeth, John, Susanna and Sarah (my ancestress). All survived to adulthood and I have marriages for Jane, Elizabeth and Susanna sisters of Sarah but not yet one for William or John.  I shall spend more time looking at the records on Ancestry.

Sarah married William Knight 7 Aug 1775 at Winterborne Stickland and their son Ellis Knight married Eleanor Knight (they may have been 2nd or 3rd cousins). Their son Samuel Knight married Louisa Butt and my father remembered his great grandparents very well and actually knew Samuel when he was a child. They used to visit him at Turnworth Dorset where he lived. Samuel died in 1912 and was 83 years old ( his wife had died twelve years earlier but my grandfather's oldest sister Louisa lived with her grandparents and eventually married at Turnworth and stayed there thus providing them with good support in their old age since only four of their eleven children survived to adulthood).

For anyone related to this Ellis line there is quite a bit of information on them in the parish registers.

Ellis Ellis and Sarah Wellspring married 7 Mar 1738 at Winterborne Stickland

Ancestry now has the Dorset parish registers online and a quick search brought up the marriage of Ellis Ellis and Sarah Wellspring. They are one set of my 5x great grandparents and I really hadn't expected to find out more about them until I made a trip to the Dorset Record Office in Dorchester and that was rather on the bottom of my list of things to do in Dorset. I had found the Ellis family in Andover and began to wonder if they had moved on from there but evidently not.

The parents of Ellis Ellis turned out to be Thomas Ellis and Mary Bound who were themselves married 27 Dec 1703 at Winterborne Stickland. The Ellis family has been in Winterborne Stickland for quite a while prior to this date so I may, when I read the register, find a baptism for Thomas and his parents. The Bound family is also found in Winterborne Stickland and a quick search did not locate Mary's baptism or parents but I will leave that for the Ellis research day once I am back into the schedule once again.

The youngest daughter of Ellis Ellis and Sarah Wellspring was Sarah Ellis who married William Knight 7 Aug 1775 at Winterborne Stickland. I may now be able to settle which of the eight children attributed to William and Sarah are actually theirs. I am in somewhat of a debate on the results which were given to me for the Knight family that I descend from and what I am finding. But I shall save all of that register reading for my research day.

I rather believe that my Dorset line are primarily agricultural labourers and skilled tradesmen as far as I can tell thus far. They all lived in the Winterborne Valley within about ten miles of Blandford Forum. A large number of them suddenly moved to Lancashire in the mid 1800s for work but they seemed to find their roots in Dorset coming back in their old age.

I am very happy that the Dorset parish registers and wills are now scanned and available on Ancestry. I will make very good use of that material. When I visit Dorset I really would like to drive about and see everything. It is a very rural area and quite full of history as we discovered when we were there in 2008. I would have been sad to spend days in the Registry Office with all the goodness of Dorset beckoning to me. It is also the home of a number of my husband's ancestors; they having left in the 1630s to go to America. His roots are a whole lot further back but he rather enjoyed visiting St Mary's Beaminster Church where his 10x great grandparents John Nyle and Johane Paviot were married in 1605. We had a great visit to that Church.

Will of William Pincombe of Bishops Nympton (dated 24 Nov 1838 (probated 17 Aug 1839)) - source: Inland Revenue Wills p 887

This will is the last of the three brother's wills and thus far I have not been able to locate the fourth brother's will - Thomas who died in 1852 just one year after his son Thomas. The records are somewhat ambiguous and it may be that one of the wills lost in the bombing of Exeter during WWII is that of the father Thomas since he would not have been referred to as Thomas Pincombe Senior his son already being deceased. The will of Thomas Pincombe Junior was destroyed in the bombing. It would have been interesting to have that will as well to understand the movement of property in this family where leases moved sideways from brother to brother initially although in William's will he is now passing the land onto his own children and grand children.

William does not mention any of his nieces and nephews and this is probably understandable as he has his own family although his is a sad story. A total of seven children were born to William and Mary Pincombe (Mary's surname is still unknown):

John baptized 26 Dec 1798 at Bishops Nympton and buried 22 Jul 1830 at Bishops Nympton. He did not marry;

Mary baptized 31 Mar 1800 at Bishops Nympton and married to William Matthews 1 Jul 1818 at Bishops Nympton (three children and two mentioned in the will - John (never married/no issue) and William Pincombe Matthews (married Elizabeth Ellen Wreford Sep quarter 1856 at Crediton and they had three children Elizabeth Lydia M Matthews who married Doug Banfield Dec quarter 1883 and they had four children and I did not find marriages for any of them - Douglas, Ralph, Amelia Jane and Ida Matthews; William Matthews and Samuel John Matthews do not appear to have married); daughter Mary Ann Matthews who married Edward Baker rather late in life June quarter 1873 at Stoke Damerel

William baptized 1 Jan 1802 at Bishops Nympton and married to Maria Torrington 15 May 1822 at Bishops Nympton (nine children and one mentioned in the will:  Maria Ann Torrington Pincombe married William Bond (seven children), Sarah Jane Torrington Pincombe married John Passmore, William Torrington Pincombe married Elizabeth Callard Jun quarter 1852 at Islington (eight children most born in Australia), John Pincombe b 7 Aug 1831;d 21 Aug 1831 Bishops Nympton, John Pincombe baptized 12 Aug 1832 and married Mary Ridd Dec quarter 1859 at Barnstaple (six children; all but the eldest born in Australia), Mary Elizabeth Pincombe baptized 23 Sep 1835 at Bishops Nympton and married to Edward Ellis Sep quarter 1861 at Crediton (10 children - this family remained in England), Harriet Torrington Pincombe baptized 18 Aug 1837 Bishops Nympton and died in Australia in 1929,  Henry William Torrington Pincombe married Jane Hawke in Australia circa 1866 (nine children), and Thomas Torrington Caren Pincombe married Maria Sophia Thomas circa 1880 in Australia (seven children). The only sample I have of yDNA for my family line is from a descendant of this line. He placed his results on ysearch and I contacted him. He never responded but a few years later a friend of his wrote to ask for information. I supplied information but never did  hear back. Perhaps one day ..... perhaps he died. It would be good to bring the family back together on email.

Johanna baptized 17 Oct 1803 and buried 14 Feb 1805 Bishops Nympton

Emmanuel baptized 1 Jan 1805 and buried 13 Apr 1806 Bishops Nympton

Anna Pincombe baptized 14 Oct 1806 Bishops Nympton (died Dec quarter 1841 Bishops Nympton) married John Hole 28 Feb 1828 at Bishops Nympton. They had four children - Mary b 1830; d 1838 Bishops Nympton; John b 1833 Bishops Nympton and married Elizabeth Jones June quarter 1865 at Tiverton (I have not been able to determine if there were any descendants of this couple);  Maria baptized 29 May 1836 at Bishops Nympton and did not marry/no issue, and Joanna b 1838 Bishops Nympton and did not marry/no issue.

Catherine baptized circa 1813 and likely died by 1838 since William does not mention her in his will.

I will next put together the land that these brothers occupied and I know that Thomas was at Twitchen and compare that with the list of properties held by the Pincombe family in 1605 which I obtained from Rylands Library at the University of Manchester. A project for another day.

The will of William Pincombe (over 200 lines and packed with family information):

Recorded: 27 Oct 2011
Source: Inland Revenue Wills - p 887
Place: Bishops Nympton, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 24 Nov 1838 (probated 17 Aug 1839)
Condition: photocopy, light, modern English writing
Type: eight pages - Original will (6 pages) and Probate (2 pages)


1 This is the last Will and Testament of me William
2 Pincombe of Bishopsnympton in the County of Devon Yeoman
3 First I give devise and bequeath All that my Messuage Tenement
4 and Farm called West Webbery situated in the parish of Bishopsnympton
5 aforesaid with the Appurtenances thereunto belonging unto my Son William
6 Pincombe his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for and during
7 all such Estate and Interest as I shall have therein at the time of
8 my decease Also I give and deivse unto my Daughter Mary Matthews
9 for and during the term of her natural life one Annuity or clear
10 yearly rent charge or Sum of Twenty five pounds of lawful money
11 of Great Britain And unto my Daughter Anna Hole for and during
12 the term of her natural life one Annuity or clear yearly rent charge
13 or Sum of Twenty five pounds of lawful money as aforesaid to be
14 respectively issuing and payable out of All that my Messuage Tenement and
15 Farm called Withwell otherwise Withywine otherwise Shirelade situated
16 in the parish of Morebath in the said County of Devon and out of the
17 appurtenances thereunto belonging which I do hereby subject and charge
18 to and with the payment of the said two several Annuities or yearly
19 rent charges accordingly And I do hereby direct that the said
20 several Annuities shall be respectively payable and paid free and clear
21 of and from all Rates Taxes and deductions whatsoever (except the Annuity
22 or Legacy Stamp Duty) by quarterly payments on Midsummer day Michaelmas
23 day Christmas day and Lady day in every year and by even and equal
24 portions and that the first quarterly payment thereof respectively shall be
25 made on such of the said days as shall first and next happen after
26 my decease And I do hereby declare my Will to be that the said
27 several Annuities hereintofore respectively given to my said Daughters
28 Mary Matthews and Anna Hole shall be paid to them respectively or to
29 such person or persons as they respectively shall by writing under their
30 respective hands appoint to receive the same to the end that the same
31 Annuities may be for their respective separate use and not subject or
32 liable to the controul debts or engagements of the respective Husbands with
33 whom they may happen to be intermaried at the time of my decease or at
34 any time afterwards And that the respective receipts of the said Mary Matthews
35 and Anna Hole or of the person or persons whom they shall respectively
36 appoint to receive the same for their said respective Annuities shall be the
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37 ...... [text missing]
38 Also I give devise and bequeath unto my brother Thomas Pincombe
39 of Twitchen in the said County Yeoman his Heirs and Assignes All
40 that my said Messuage Tenement and Farm called Withwell otherwise
41 Withywine otherwise Shirelade situated in the parish of Morebath
42 aforesaid with the appurtenances (subject nevertheless
43 (1) William Pincombe [signed]
44 to and charged with the said several Annuities or yearly rent
45 charges and the powers and remedies hereby given for securing and
46 enforcing the payment of the same). To hold the same (subject
47 and charges as aforesaid) unto the said Thomas Pincombe his Heirs
48 and Assigns To the uses following that is to say. To the use of
49 my said Son William Pincombe and his assigns for and during the
50 term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of
51 waste And from and immediately after the decease of my said Son William
52 Pincombe To the use of my Grandson William Torrington Pincombe (Son
53 of my said Son William Pincombe) his Heirs and Assigns forever
54 Also I give and bequeath unto my Grandson John Matthews for
55 and during the term of ten years (to commence and be completed
56 from the time of my death) if he shall so long live. One Annuity
57 or clear yearly rent charge of Ten pounds of lawful money of Great
58 Britain to be issuing and payable out of all that my Messuage Tenement
59 and Farm called East Webbery situated in the parish of Bishopsnymptom
60 aforesaid and out of the Appurtenances thereunto belonging which I do hereby
61 subject and charge to and with the payment of the same Annuity
62 accordingly And I do hereby direct that the said Annuity shall be
63 payable and paid free and clear of and from all Rates Taxes and Deductions
64 whatsoever (except the Annuity or Legacy Stamp Duty) by quarterly
65 payments on Midsummer day Michaelmas day Christmas day and
66 Lady day in every year and by even and equal portions and that the first
67 quarterly payment thereof shall be made on such of the said days as
68 shall first and next happen after my decease Also I give and bequeath unto
69 my Son William Pincombe his Heirs Executors Administrators and
70 Assigns All that the said Messuage Tenement and Farm called East
71 Webbery situated in the parish of Bishopsnympton aforesaid with the
72 appurtenances thereunto belonging (Subject nevertheless to and charged with
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73 the payment of the said Annuity of Ten pounds and the remedies and
74 powers hereby given for securing and enforcing the payment thereof as
75 aforesaid To hold the same (subject and charged as aforesaid) unto
76 and to the use of my said Son William Pincombe his Heirs Executors
77 Administrators and Assigns for and during all such Estate and Interest
78 as I shall have therein at the time of my decease Also I give devise
79 and bequeath unto my Grandson John Matthews one Annuity or clear
80 yearly rent charge or sum of Five pounds of lawful money as aforesaid
81 for and during all the rest residue and remainder which at the time
82 of my decease shall be to come and unexpired of my present and future
83 Estate Term and Interest of and in All that Messuage Tenement and
84 Farm called West Wood situated in the parish of Bishopsnympton
85 aforesaid with the appurtenances And I hereby direct that the said last
86 mentioned Annuity or yearly rent charge of Five pounds
87 (2) William Pincombe [signed]
88 shall be paid free and clear of and from all Rates Taxes and deductions
89 whatsoever (except the Annuity or Legacy Stamp Duty) And that the
90 same shall be issuing and payable out of All that the said Messuage
91 Tenement and Farm called West Wood with the appurtenances by equal
92 quarterly payments on Midsummer day Michaelmas day Christmas day
93 and Lady day in every year and by even and equal portions and that the
94 first quarterly payment thereof shall be made on such of the said
95 days as shall first and next happen after my decease Also I
96 give devise and bequeath unto my Grandson William Matthews
97 his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns All that the said
98 Messuage Tenement and Farm called West Wood situated in the parish
99 of Bishopsnympton aforesaid with the Appurtenances thereunto belonging
100 (subject nevertheless to and charged with the payment of the said Annuity
101 of Five pounds charged thereon and the powers and remedies hereby given
102 for securing and enforcing the payment thereof as aforesaid To hold
103 the said (subject and charged as aforesaid) unto and to the use of
104 my said Grandson William Matthews his Heirs Executors Administrators
105 and Assigns for and during all such present and future Estate Term
106 and Interest as I shall have therein at the time of my decease
107 Provided always and I hereby declare my Will to be that if the
108 said several Annuities or yearly rent charges hereinbefore devised or
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109 either of them shall be behind of unpaid by the space of any day
110 next over or after any or either of the days or times whereon the same
111 are respectively made payable and ought to be paid as aforesaid Then
112 and in such case and as often as it shall so happen I do hereby
113 empower order and direct the person or persons who by virtue of this
114 my will shall be legally or equitably entitled to the Annuities or
115 Annuity so in arrear and unpaid to enter into and upon the said
116 Messuages Tenements Farms and Premises hereby charged with the
117 payment thereof respectively and to obtain for the said Annuities
118 and Annuity or such of them as shall be so in arrear and
119 the distress and distresses their and there found to manage sell and
120 dispose of for the recovery and satisfaction of the said annuities
121 and Annuity and all arrears thereof and all costs attending the
122 Distress and Sale of the Goods distrained in such manner as the
123 law directs in cases of rent being in arrear and unpaid Also I
124 give and bequeath unto my Son in law John Hole his Executors
125 Administrators and Assigns the Sum of Four hundred pounds of
126 Lawful money of Great Britain To hold the same unto the said John
127 Hole his Executors Administrators and Assigns Upon Trust nevertheless
128 for the Child if only one and if more than one then for all the
129 Children of my Daughter Anna Hole living at the time of my death
130 and if more than one in equal shares and proportioned as Tenants
131 in common and not as joint Tenants and to be vested Interests in them
132 respectively on their severally attaining the age of twenty one years
133 (3) William Pincombe [signed]
134 and to be paid to them respectively as soon as conveniently can be after such
135 terms of vesting respectively shall have happened With equal benefit of
136 survivorship in the nature of Cross remainders to extend as well to
137 derivative as original shares in case any one or more of the same
138 Children shall happen to depart this life without attaining a bested
139 Interest or vested Interests in his her or their share or respective Shares
140 And I direct that the said Sum of Four hundred pounds
141 shall be paid by my Executor hereinafter named at the end of
142 Twelve months next after my decease (Also I give and bequeath unto
 My Grand daughter Mary Ann Matthews the Sum of One hundred pounds
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144 of lawful money as aforesaid if and when she shall attain her full age
145 of Twenty one years (and unto my Grandson John Matthews the Sum
146 of Two hundred pounds of like lawful money if and when he shall
147 attain his full age of Twenty one years And I direct that the same
148 two  Legacies or Sums shall be paid by my Executor hereinafter mentioned
149 if and when the same shall respectively become due and payable but not
150 before or otherwise and that the same two Legacies or Sums shall bear
151 or carry Interest at and after the rate of Four pounds per centum per
152 annum from the time of my death until the same respectively shall
153 become due and be payable (Also I give devise and bequeath unto my said
154 Son William Pincombe his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
155 All my Freehold Leasehold and Copyhold Messuages Lands Tenements
156 Hereditaments and Premises whatsoever and wheresoever and which are not
157 hereinbefore given devised bequeathed or disposed of And also all my Real
158 Estate Goods chattles and personal Estate which are not hereinbefore given
159 devised bequeathed or disposed of (Subject nevertheless to and charged with
160 the payment of all my just Debts the expences of my funeral and of proving
161 this my Will and the said pecuniary Legacies or such of them as shall
162 become due and payable To hold the same (subject and charged as aforesaid)
163 unto and to the use of my said Son William Pincombe his Heirs Executors
164 Administrators and Assigns forever. Also I give and devise all Estates
165 vested in me as a Mortgagee or Trustee unto and to the use of my said Son
166 William Pincombe his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns upon
167 such Trusts and subject to such Equities as shall be subsisting therein
168 respectively. And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said
169 Son William Pincombe sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament
170 and lastly I do hereby revoke and make void all former Wills by me at any
171 time or times heretofore made.
172 In Witness whereof I the said William Pincombe the Testator has
173 to this my last Will and Testament subscribed and set my hand and Seal this
174 (4) William Pincombe [signed]
175 twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
176 hundred and thirty eight
177 William Pincombe [signed] (Seal)
 Signed Sealed Published and declared by the above named William
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178 Pincombe the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the
179 presence of us (present at the same time) who at his request in his
180 presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
181 our names as Witnesses hereto The words "County" in the first Sheet
182 and "the payment of" in the fourth Sheet having been first interlined
183 J G Pearse [signed]
184 James Pearse [signed]
185 J Galliford [signed]
 [Probate]
186 For the Stamp Office
187 Copy of the Will
188 of William Pincombe late
189 of Bishops Nympton Devon
190 Yeoman dece[ase]d
191 Executor
192 William Pincombe of Bishops
193 nympton Devon Yeoman
194 Proved (by Commision) in
195 the Principal Registry of the
196 Lord Bishop of Exeter the
197 17th August 1839
198 Testator died 21 May 1839
199 Effects sworn under £1000
200 Ralph Barnes
201 Dep[uty] Registrar
202 DEC 7
203 No. 4 REG NR 1839
204 EW FOR 1828
205 Folio at 6 .. 13
 [P 887 in margin]
206 FOR EXECUTORS
207 Appeared personally William Pincombe of
208 the Parish of Bishops Nympton in the County of
209 Devon Yeoman the Sole
210 Executor named in the last Will and Testament of William
211 Pincombe late of the said Parish of Bishops
212 nympton Yeoman his late Father deceased
213 who died on the twenty first Day of May 1839
214 and made Oath, that he hath made diligent search and due enquiry
215 after, and in respect of the Personal Estate and Effects of the said Deceased, in
216 order to ascertain the full Amount and Value thereof; and that to the best of
217 his Knowledge, Information, and Belief, the whole of the Goods, Chattels,
218 and Credits, of which the said Deceased died possessed within the
219 Diocese of Exeter (exclusive of what the Deceased may have
220 been possessed of or intitled to as a Trustee for any other Person, or Persons.
221 and not beneficially. (A) but including the Leasehold Estates for Years of the
222 Deceased, whether absolute or determinable on Lives, and without deducting
223 any Thing on Account of the Debts due and owing from the Deceased) are under
224 the Value of one thousand pounds
225 to the best of this Deponents Knowledge, Information, and Belief, (B) and
226 this Deponent lastly made Oath, that the said Deceased was not possess of
227 or intitled to any Leasehold Estate or Estates for Years of the Deceased, whether
228 absolute or determinable on a Life or Lives, to the best of this Deponents
229 Knowledge, Information, and Belief.
230 William Pincombe [signed]
231 Sworn on the seventeenth
232 Day of  August 1839
233 before me
234 C Melhuish
235 Commissioner

It would be great to bring the family back together and I welcome emails from family members if they wish more information or would like to add to mine; I appreciate all information received for our Pincombe one name study for it isn't just mine; it belongs to all of us descendants of the Pincombe family - my mother was very fond of her birth surname and always curious about her family. I do my studies in memory of my parents Blake for my father and Pincombe for my mother.