Completion of North Molton Parish Registers up to 1707

The Parish Registers of North Molton transcription to 1707 is now complete and there are 4963 baptisms, 1008 marriages,  3048 burials and 162 banns. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of entries. Being able to look deeply into the Pincombe family at North Molton was also most rewarding.

The next step is to proofread this parish register transcription and that will likely wait for the New Year. I must now prepare for my dedicated research time of ten days so that I have everything ready to go. Working on the excel file for the Bishops Nympton Parish Register has been a goal of mine for a few years but I never had a really good time that I would be isolated so that I could work on it. The time has come and I shall take full advantage of it.

The Pincombe entries in the last few years of the registers at North Molton (as far as I have transcribed it) yielded very few Pincombe entries. My thoughts are now directed at the Pincombe family there in the 1700s and one source that might lead me to them are the Freeholder books transcribed by the Genuki Devon team and I am happy to say that I was one of them. Checking the online database there were no Pincombe freeholders at North Molton in the 1700s. I will put the rest of the entries together shortly remembering there were a number of burials. I would like to complete my study of the Pincombe family there although it may have to wait until I purchase the other parish registers for North Molton.

Cold Virus continuing - evening 31 March 2009

This was an exceptionally strong cold virus but I continue to improve. Today we looked after the dogs again which kept us busy most of the afternoon. They were inside mostly because it is just too wet and muddy in the garden. We took them for a long walk (good for my cough I suspect) and then they snoozed for about an hour.

I did manage to complete Bishops Nympton census for 1901 and pull out what I could of the 1911. I am still missing 400 people but now that I have them all together in one file (I called it story-line as it will be part of the basis of my family story lines for Bishops Nympton)I can have another look at the 1911 census as I work my way through each family. The Pincombe family disappeared after the 1870s and then returned in the 1930s. The Pincombe family that returned are not closely related to me. My excel file has nearly 8500 entries from 1841 to 1911 so will provide a good deal of information for the study. Plus I have the extracted land records from 1780 to the mid 1830s to go with this information and also the freeholder books which I helped to transcribe and they take me back to the early 1700s. Along with the Parish Registers and if I can find the Poor Law information (I think it may have been destroyed), I should have lots of information for my story. There is also Eric Tull's book on BishopsNympton which is quite interesting and I will quote from it as I look at the families in real time. I also have the tax records which span the time from the early 1500s to the late 1600s and also the Protestation Returns of 1641-42 and the St Pauls Brief of 1678 which I transcribed for Genuki.

I now need to move on to other projects but keep this one moving on the back burner. I expect I will do my writing up next winter.