Pencombe at North Molton

Yesterday was a work day and looking at Pencombe and it is more than a week since I last really looked at Pencombe. Now that I have made my decision I need to decide how much work to do on the de Pencombe family in Herefordshire at this moment in time. Some distant cousins of mine are actually going to visit the various repositories in England during this next month so putting this chapter aside for the moment might be a worthwhile pursuit of my time. 

That moves me on to the actual information about this early Pencombe family who came with John Lord Zouch to North Molton circa 1486. How old was John Pencombe when he arrived with John Lord Zouch. He is located on the 1524-27 Devon Lay Subsidy with his likely youngest son listed next to him as W1 (i.e. Thomas is a wage earner). So Thomas is perhaps 16 years of age or more in 1524 (born circa 1508 or earlier). Thomas appears on the 1543 Devon Lay Subsidy at East Buckland (Thomas Pencombe and his subsidy listed as 9). This is a large subsidy but not the largest, that is his brother John at South Molton (John Pencombe 13) and Christopher (son of John, Christopher 10). Alice is listed at North Molton (and is she the widow of John Pencombe as he does not appear on the Subsidy) (Alice Pencombe 5). The other son of John Pencombe, William Pencombe, is listed at North Molton (William Pencombe 6). I also pulled out the material on the Pyncowe family at East Buckland and Ilfracombe in Braunton hundred but do not believe that this family is related to the Pencombe family. The Pencow spelling is retained on the Devon Lay Subsidy 1543-45. There is a Richard Pencombe at Bideford (Richard Pencombe 5) in 1543-45.

At this point I believe I have the founding member of the Pencombe family in North Molton - John Pencombe. He is possibly married to Alice and they have three sons - John, William and Thomas - and possibly a daughter Margaret but I am still not entirely sure she is in this second generation as she could also be the daughter of John (son of John Pencombe). Her marriage in 1539 does seem rather late to be a daughter and more likely a grand daughter. 

The Devon Muster Roll of 1569 listed John Pincomb at North Molton, Christopher Pincomb at South Molton (Town), John Pincomb at South Molton (Town), a second John Pincomb at South Molton (Town) (possibly a son of Christopher Pincomb) and William Pyncomb at East Buckland. At this time the two sons of John Pencombe (came with John Lord Zouch) Thomas likely by 1544 and William by 1565 are deceased. The John Pincomb (grandson possibly to John Pencombe (deceased by 1543)) has perhaps inherited his grandfather's property or this John Pincomb is the eldest son and now on his father's property with his son John and grandson John at South Molton. 

At this point I shall now begin extracting information from Find My Past. I believe I will work on twenty year periods as there are more than 14,000 hits for the spelling Pincombe alone and adding in the variants for Pincombe yields over 229,000 hits. I have worked out individuals the common variants and it runs around 60,000 hits. I think my method of doing 20 years at a time whilst recording the number of hits total for each decade will let me review periodically if I am missing anything as time passes. It is time to begin as it will be a long process. I have a new chart in my Legacy Family Tree Program that I will use and I will record everything that I find. I will only link in those that can be readily linked. I will not avoid the spellings like Pynkeham but will include them. Will I include the Tynkeham, Tinkham, Tincombe people; I still have to consider that but I am not sure they show up with the Pincombe + variants search and will try that out in a 20 years cycle. No there are over 3000 in a random sample of Pincombe + variants over 20 years and nearly 1500 Tincombe over the same random period (reviewing the samples shows that there is no overlap). 

I shall begin a sample today likely 1520 to 1560 and there are 888 hits for Pincombe + variants. It begins!. But then I went skiing and did not work on this extraction after all but will begin the next Pencombe day which will be Saturday. 

Teatime and Latin.

 

Decisions

March for my studies became a throw away month whilst I contemplated the path for each of the two books. 

Pencombe became the easiest to resolve as I realized that the data that existed did not lend to the thought that Philip Pynkeham at Tawstock was related to the Pencombe family at North Molton. He is either related to an earlier Pencombe family that came to Devon from Herefordshire (not necessarily the same family which would be anticipated given the difference in y-DNA results) or is actually a member of the Tykenham family closeby but in the same hundred in this time frame. Decision made to not include Philip in the book. I will in each decade make decisions that lend themselves to the accumulated data. 

Blake ended up creating new chapters to look at Richard le Blak in Berkshire on the Pipe Rolls of 1301 and his family as it moved out of Berkshire and into Wiltshire and Hampshire. The Blake family of Calne does appear to be descendant of this Richard le  Blak and was he the Richard who received license to set up a market in England in 1274 (Calendar of Patent Rolls). This is not yet proven but I continue to look at the available data (available to me). I have added a chapter of the Le Blak family of Calne, I have also added a chapter which looks at two major Blake family documents - Blake Pedigree Chart of 1690 requisitioned by Daniel Blake of London, England with additions into the mid to latter part of the 1700s and the Blake Family Chart (additions up to the early 1920s) possibly created by Edward James Blake of Crewkerne, Somerset. This month of review was definitely worth while for the Blake family book. 

There is snow on the ground here but not a lot. Skiing may not happen! But the moisture is good for sure. 

Tea time and Latin next. 

I must continue pulling out the sets of data that I have collected for this family in the North Molton area

The 18th Prime Minister of Canada - Brian Mulroney

Rest in Peace Brian Mulroney you did your task very well and created a new Canada that still flourishes due to your foresight with the 7% GST (although I consider mistakenly taken to 5% by Prime Minister Harper) and NAFTA. Both enriched Canada by making anything possible in those years following their enactment.  I watched during the day while the coffin of our 18th Prime Minister was Laying in State here in Ottawa. He will be sadly missed by all of the current politicians of the day; he was a great Canadian with a reach down through the ages. I will watch his funeral on Saturday.

I must admit the demise of the NDP would suit me very well; I have never considered them to be an effective party but rather concentrating on one segment of the population only; the one that they think will vote them in. Folded back into the Liberal party where they belong they would continue giving that far left wing of the Liberal party a voice plus the percentage of our tax that goes to support democracy (i.e. the parties with enough seats in the house) would not be diced up quite so much. The idea of the individual tax payer having a box to check for their taxes to be directed at their discretion (or one could have a checkbox for the status quo) is an interesting idea that came to me yesterday as I considered the amendment to the bill first put forward by the mis-guided NDP member. Put more effort into getting the children out of Gaza and here where there is lots of food and no bombs and less into supporting the terrorists Hamas who live on hatred of the Jewish people. That the bill passed in the house is simply a matter of politics - the Block want to be there to vote for an independence movement (as they see it) as they see their own and has little to do with Gaza likely (breaking up Canada is their aim), the NDP serve no purpose as far as I can see but are simply Liberals with a different name and would save tax money being thinned out if they are the same party and the Green Party (although I am a great believer in greening Canada I think voting for this particular item was a poor choice - abstaining could express your horror at the state of Gaza better - it at least supports Israel's right to defend itself). So I am left with the Conservatives, which I am actually but their inability to leave the GST alone or at least put it back up to 7% or 10%, it is a wealth tax after all (lots of exempt items that are necessities), has put me into the Liberal camp where I do not really belong but they are getting the job done. The military is getting more hardware and support (but more is needed); we got through COVID relatively unscathed and our economy is moving along nicely. I have no objection to the Carbon Tax - we have to pay to green Canada and that is a fact (last year we had the worst air of any place in the world; the smoke was swirling around in our backyard here and all over the Ottawa Valley). Taxes are one of the great truths of life - death and taxes!

Cleaning day all accomplished and today will be a research day. Just debating on which one to work on today. I am still sorting Pencombe in my mind and concentrating on the descendants of the North Molton Pencombe family and leaving the Philip Pynkeham at Tawstock for another (although I know I will keep having a look here and there during the remainder of the throw-away month). Finding him on the 1524-7 (as well as the 1543-45 Lay Subsidies as a tax payer) as a wage earner was interesting. The individual on the line above him was not a relative and I can not see anything that helps me with who he is as he is likely at least 15-18 years of age in 1524 so born in the same time frame as the first generation's Pencombe children (but does not appear to belong to anyone at Tawstock (the forename Philip is somewhat unusual in this family although there was one in my 2x great grandfather John Pincombe's family; his youngest brother Philip but he had an uncle Philip and grandfather on his mother's side!)). Probably I should still consider alternative searches as this is my throw-away month to look at possibilities and work on the Blake family. Here I am looking at the Le Blac family of Rouen, Normandy and were they the ancestors of the Calne Blake family? Can I prove that the Richard (who actually belongs at the top of the Blake Family Chart (Blake Museum, Bridgwater) I do believe) Blague/Blaake was the same Richard who applied for a license to set up a market in England in 1274? I think continuing with my search through the Blake records would be a good step today.

Continuing the look at the Discovery Catalogue at the UK National Archives for the unfinished group of Blake beginning with John Blake.  Publication of The Harleian Society Volume LXXIX (1928). There are Blake entries namely John Blak, Rawlyn Blak, Richard Blak, Andrew Blake, Edmond Blake, Edmund Blake (6 entries), John Blake (4 entries), Simon Blake (2 entries), Thomas Blake (4 entries), Walter Blake, William Blake (3 entries). 

Name                      Page              Suit#

John Blake           16                 10

John Blake           20               103 

John Blake         204               490

John Blake         295              353

Simon Blake      144              240

Simon Blake      238              174

Thomas Blake   134              329

Thomas Blake   285               74

Thomas Blake   293             307

Thomas Blake   390               13

Walter Blake     154             505

 William Blake   30             131

William Blake    30             148

William Blake  166              88

I have completed the first group of Blake way back last week; my the time passes quickly. I shall continue that process looking up these items on the Discovery Catalogue at Kew today (I shall continue adding to this post all day). 

Teatime and Latin first. 

 John Blake (77 items - 11 relevant)

1.  C136/83/5 and it is the Inquisition Postmortem for John Blake I (MP for Calne). This would be an interesting document and I may yet order it.

2. Grant (at Calne) by Geoffrey Symple of Wynterbourne Whitcherch (Dorset) to John Blake of Quemerford, of an acre of land in the field called Westytone. 1386 Reference: 1720/199

3. 1395; John Blake witnesses a document (Whetham (a parish in Calne), Wiltshire, lease). Reference: 1720/213

4. Eaaster, 1395. Attorney: By John Blake of Quemerford to Robert Welyknowe to deliver seisin to Rober Saleman and his co-feoffees of pasture of his manor of Shawe and other lands there. Reference: DD/WHb/2026.

5. 1393. John Blake witnessed a Grant (at Wodelond) by  .... Reference: 1720/210

6. 1390. Quitclaim (at Calne), witnessed by John Blake Reference 1720/206

7. 1393. Quitclaim (at Calne), witnessed by John Blake. Reference 1720/207

8. 1384. Grant (at Whetham), witnessed by John Blake. Reference: 1720/193

9. 1387. Grant (at le Northehethe), witnessed by John Blake. Reference: 1720/202

10. 1460 Aug 18. John Blake (Nether Wallop), Robert Blake (Calne), Alexander Blake (Calne), sued by a London merchant. Reference C241/243/39

11. 1463; lease, widow of Robert Blake (Calne), Avice Blake, and John Blake, Robert Blake her sons, for 13 years to Nicholas Redeman of a barn and pasture at Sohawe. Reference DD/WHb/2144.

Simon Blake  - 14 records - 13 Norfolk, 1 Devon

Thomas Blake - 21 records - 1 Kent, 1 Suffolk, most Norfolk, some London

Walter Blake - 1 record - East Anglia

William Blake -  20 Records - Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Sheffield,

1. early 1400s. Mortgage of tenement in Salisbury, Wiltshire. William Blake, plaintiff (might be interesting since the grandfather of Robert (fulling mill at Quemerford) Blake was said to be a William Blake. Reference C 1/6/131 (must check and see if this is one that I imaged at Kew in 2013).

2. 1404-1426. Same as above. Reference C 1/6/148

3. 1489, Letter of Attorney - Wheddon in Cutcombe, Somerset which William Blake holds. Reference: 1782/M/T 21 (two entries)

The William Blake records could be interesting as it is the first that I have found for a William Blake in the right area. The John Blake records are expected in that John Blake I and John Blake II were both Members of Parliament. 

William being in Salisbury especially interesting because Whiteparish is just south of Salisbury and if  the unknown Blake (grandson of William, son of Henry) who moved from Whiteparish to Andover area (dying there in 1471) it could prove quite interesting. Although the third record itself is in Cutcombe, Somerset so curious mostly. Will consider ordering these three records if I do not already have them.

Looking at that particular item once again from the Blake Family Chart, Blake Museum. Bridgwater:

This unknown Blake is said to be the grand son of William Blake and Elizabeth (Power) Blake.

 I will look at this chart next Blake day and review the problems that exist when one looks at the wills for these individuals. They kindly left them! Interesting in a way that this chart was created for the Hampshire Blake Family. The actual chart doesn't use it. It doesn't help anyone with the Blake Pedigree Chart at Swindon - perhaps just throwing a little fat into the fire type of thing. It does use some of the material from the Blake Pedigree Chart though one does notice that. It would be interesting to discover the origin of the first generations  

Pencombe research day - Devon Archives

 I did find one interesting Feoffment in the Devon Archives:

 Feoffment (partially illegible) (I) Walter Babacomb and Richard Wylle To Richard Burgyn, gent.; John Addyngton, gent.; William Susan; William Androwe; John Salterne; William Chynge; Thomas Leche; Thomas Yeo; William Colybeare, sen.; Aldred Stockeham; Richard Pynkeham; John Parson; Roger Salterne; John Lake, sen.; Thomas Mogar; William Porson [sic]; John Susan; John Androwe; William Davye; William Yeo; Henry Salterne; John Babacomb, jun.; Henry Rusten; Richard Johns; Anthony Horye and John Lake de Aggeven Property in Bideford; Barnstaple; Combe Martin; Roborough; Westleigh; Little Torrington; Alverdiscott; Northam; Abbotsham and elsewhere in Devon 14 Jan. 1566
Repository    

North Devon Record Office

Reference number   BBT/1/1

Date    14 Jan1566

Access status   Open

Level     File

Richard Pynkeham is an interesting person (is he the son of Philip Pynkeham known to have left his will in 1564 at Tawstock?). It is a summary of a large document likely and the list of places tend to be in the area that is of interest. Chart 10 produced by the earlier researchers, Galen Pinkham and Dr Richard Pinkham, has the following:

Phillipp Pyncombe (b 1563) married Wilmote Beare 10 Feb 1583 at Bideford. I already have a problem with these dates because a Philip Pynkeham's will was probated in 1564. However the spelling in the Bideford Registers is as shown so who is this Phillipp Pyncombe? This particular chart does not have contributors so is likely prepared by the two researchers. They are falling back on the history of the Richard Pinkham who came to Old Dover, New Hampshire( at least by the early 1640s likely) written by the Rev. Charles Nelson Sinnett. He was said to have two brothers who settled in other parts of New Hampshire. But the writer says he found nothing to support these thoughts. With the data at hand in the Bideford Parish Registers (the original scans are on Find My Past) there does appear to be a Pyncombe family at Bideford from the beginning of the Registers. But who are they? From whom do they descend? 

Known to be at North Molton from 1486 or thereabouts on, John Pencombe who came with John Lord Zouch. By 1524 listed with John at North Molton a William Pencombe and a Thomas Pencombe (Thomas beside John in the listing and has Wages listed beside his name - so perhaps the youngest son) as William has a property value as does John. The elder son John was known to be at South Molton and he is there with his eldest son Christopher (younger son John is not listed on the Lay Subsidy of 1524-7). Other than a Philip Pynkeham listed at Tawstock there are no other names similar to Pincombe/Pinkham in the Lay Subsidy (Stoate does tend to be quite good with transcriptions). Missing from the 1524-7 Lay subsidy the parishes of: Exeter omitted on purpose (published by Mrs Rowe in Tudor Exeter), Partially missing: Talaton, S. Molton Borough, Northoe, Petrockstow, Frithelstock, Burrington, Nymet Tracey, Eggesford, Stoke Damarel, Bere Ferrers, Plympton St Mary, Revelstoke. 

Tawstock is a large parish (145 names of whom 51 received Wages). Listed with the forename Philip in the 1524-7 Lay Subsidy: Philip Pyngham W 1. Interesting I could readily get Pynkeham out of that (the original would have to be consulted. So likely an apprentice. Will see if that brings up any records. Finding him on two Lay Subsidies at Tawstock is interesting.

I think my task at the moment is collection of all data from the 1400s and 1500s for all derivatives of Pencombe that I am able to locate. So that will be my task for the rest of this month anyway on the Pencombe days.

British History online proved interesting with records of Pynkeham in Devon in 1292. I shall read that one again tomorrow. Gradually I am starting to think that Pynkeham arose in Devon itself as a free standing surname. Some members of the Pincombe family did use the spelling Pinkham which has led to thoughts that this is one family. I am slowly becoming convinced that both families are free-standing with Pynkeham being the older family in Devon as Pencombe was know to arrive in 1486 with John Lord Zouch at North Molton. But I will continue to work on this on Friday. 

But it does give me more incentive to write the Pencombe Family of Herefordshire and North Molton as an independent book because of the presence of Philip Pynkeham on the 1524-7 Lay Subsidy at Tawstock as a relatively young adult and he is simply not listed as a son of John Pencombe whose sons are all close by him in North Molton and South Molton. 

Today is a Blake day and I will continue working on The Blake Pedigree Chart created in 1690 by the College of Arms for Daniel Blake. 

Teatime and Latin all accomplished. Breakfast next.

Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day

It happens that these two days come together often enough in my lifetime. They are both days of love and God has played a role in the development of both I think. Ash Wednesday is a day of thought in the Christian Church remembering Jesus and his love for mankind. Remembering why God sent him just once to live amongst us for those so privileged to have done so. Today there will be two Ash Wednesday Services that I will attend online through You-Tube. I think You-Tube is a great service but one must use it wisely and not listen to those who just use it for greed whether for money or ideas that lead to more money for them. One must be cautious listening to others speak. 

Yesterday I worked on the Pencombe family and principally reading through Henry VII's activities in the Calendar of Patent Rolls. John Lord Zouch had a great deal of property in England most of which was taken away when he was declared a traitor by the Parliament in 1485 and attainted for his part in supporting Richard III of England. Normally I would not be reading about one of the great Lords of the Realm of England but my ancestor came with him to North Molton at the beginning of the Reign of Henry VII which was 1485. So I set myself the task of reading through all of the Patent Rolls that referred to Lord Zouch and there were 16 records in Volume I most of which were granting the lands that had belonged to him to others. The first mentioned that he was a traitor and the tenth reinstated him as if it had never happened but he only got to keep the land that had belonged to his father (presumably the rest was given to him by Richard III) and so that part of the story ends. Did I learn anything about John Pencombe (likely his name was John since he appears on the Lay Subsidy as John)? I learned absolutely nothing but I think I am now left with the impression that he did not come to North Molton until John Lord Zouch was reinstated 11 Jul 1486 as that property was given to his line by Henry III and so his father would have owned it. I guess in that way I have learned something; the date that he was probably asked to accompany John Lord Zouch to North Molton. They probably arrived shortly thereafter. It does take time for all these things to come to pass though as one of the last items was 25 May 1488 at Canterbury when the King approved a grant to help Joan, wife of John Zouche, of 100 marks for her entire life. It was an interesting foray into the lives of the rich and famous looking for traces of my ancestor. The time period between the arrival and the Lay Subsidy is 38 years and by then he does have one grandchild mentioned on that subsidy (the child of his eldest son John Pencombe - Christopher Pencombe).  John's youngest son Thomas is working for wages and the third son William is also on a small holding so likely the middle son. The daughter Margaret married Philip Kingdon 15 Nov 1539 at North Molton so perhaps the youngest  (although I have not yet determined if this was John's son John's daughter).

My Inquisition Postmortem is ready for download I note in my email so will do that today but then move on to Blake. It is the day to work on the Blake book. Looking at Free BMD the surname Pencombe is uncommon and none that I could really link to Herefordshire. But it is an interesting thought as the line came to North Molton in likely 1486.

Teatime. Documents arrived and downloaded and they are just a perfect size. I was a little nervous when it was going to be two pages. So that is great and I shall work on them tomorrow. Latin going well and I have now prepared a word list as well as the sentence list that I have been creating as the days pass. I need to think if I should start creating declensions charts of the verbs, nouns, etc. This is an interesting time teaching myself Latin but using the principles of the way that French was taught to me in school (and German at University). Occasionally I let my mind wander forward to when I shall begin French in the fall. I would like to improve my spoken french for sure. The German would be one year later. Interesting really to think of myself at 80, if God so wills, speaking four languages. It would be sort of funny. I was not really a language student; science interested me far more in my youth but mostly inclined towards medicine when I was at university. But history was always sort of my hobby; we grew up talking about politics and the world situation when I was a child. We even argued on occasion. But my run is finished and on to breakfast.

Blake book continuing and looking at the yDNA

 Another good day of work on the Blake book as I completed the yDNA of my brothers' samples. I had collected quite a bit through the years as I was involved with a couple of DNA projects for yDNA and in correspondence with people very involved in the defining of individual lines particularly the I2a group looking at the British Isles groups some of which were quite ancient to the Isles. I did discover a couple of new papers that I had missed one of which referred to my brother's sample as it stretches far back into early Britain but with more testing and advanced testing a couple of matches have shown up with the terminal SNP I-PH151. One located in southern England (our line) and one in Ireland. My brother and I had this constant conversation the last fifteen years of his life concerning exactly what our grandfather had said concerning the Blake line. He thought that Grandpa had said it was Irish and I distinctly remember him saying that they had lived in the Andover, Hampshire, England area for ever. I was only eight when Grandpa passed away and he was closer to eleven. But the latest Big Y chart shows it once again that two SNPS from the parent SNP and my brother's line went on to the one descendant SNP and most went on to the second descendant SNP. Since the YDNA line ends with my brothers it is most fortunate that my grandfather had a number of male cousins carrying the Blake surname who also had sons. Most of my cousins live in England with a few in Canada, a few in the United States, a few in South Africa and a few in Australia/New Zealand. I would say that better than 90% still live in the British Isles (some are in Scotland as well as England). The question is do I also have Irish? When the ethnicity results are read from the multi testing companies that we have all tested at some of us do have an interesting percentage of Irish (greater than 10%) but some of us do not. With five tested one gets an interesting display of results and matches that have proven to be most interesting particularly taken into DNA Painter. I did complete the yDNA chapter and moved on to the Chapter about Andover, Hampshire and area since that is where my line lived until my grandfather came to Canada bringing his wife and only child - my father. He came for ten years just to see the country I think partly. But the horrendous loss of male lives in particular during the First World War (he came in 1913 at nearly 40 years of age) resulted in the CNR asking him to stay longer and he did. Then six grandchildren enticed him to stay even longer. I think my grandmother dying here and buried here was another draw for him. His own parents were deceased and a number of his siblings had died and so he stayed much to the happiness of his grandchildren and myself as I spent hours listening to him talk about Upper Clatford and England. He did love his home country though. 

On to the Pencombe book today. I have not yet heard back about the document that I ordered but I am sure they are very busy. I have the abstract but would like to see the entire document and I am busy doing my Latin once again to be prepared for it to be in Latin as it is from the latter part of the 1300s. The Inquisition Postmortem for John Pencombe of Herefordshire. I am trying to see if there is a link between this Pencombe family of Pencombe Herefordshire and the Pencombe/Pincombe/Pyncombe/Pinkham family of North Molton, Devon. According to the Visitation of Devon 1620 ?Pyncombe arrived with la Zouch at North Molton at the beginning of the reign of King Henry VII (1485 +). I think now that he came with John Lord Zouch who was attainted to perhaps deliver him to his relatives at North Molton and in return he received property there. This Pencombe family left a number of documents in the early 1400s which I shall also purchase but need to review them to see exactly what might help me. I should have collected their documents when we were at Kew but I was only just starting to think about them. It is much cheaper to order them than for me to go there again!

I am finding this is working quite well having the two books ongoing at the same time. I find that the day when I am doing the one that thoughts about the other one can be quite contributing and I just jot them down for the next day. It is sort of like having a job where you are balancing a number of items at one time and to make the best use of your time it is better to schedule them so that you do not get bogged down for too long on one item!

Time for Latin and then breakfast.

Huge projects

I do have several large projects for the fall independent of my writing/editing. There are four large piles that have to be shredded. There is one banker box of items that need to be scanned before shredding. Shredding the four large piles is difficult in some ways because a large part of it was letters between Edward and family members he met along the way. The letters begin with the usual things that genealogists talk about when they write to a long lost relative but some of this correspondence went on for twenty or thirty years and they became like pen pals sharing their lives with each other. I feel it is important that I shred all of this as it is private information between two people who found a friendship by mail that they enjoyed but it wasn't really meant to be shared with the world. My daughters have a nodding interest in genealogy but not strong enough to support picking up the traces which were left by Edward and carry on with all of this work. They may pick it up one day but this way they can use their own flavour of research and they are happy with that. The amount of material that Edward held was quite enormous thinking back now as I look around a house still full but not overwhelming in quite the same way. The fullness results from four people and then five living here for a period of time accumulating objects and not really wanting to part with them. Even I with my tendency to not gather dust so to speak do have some possessions that I have acquired although rapidly diminishing. One set was the VCR tapes and then DVDs that I bought (generally on sale) during my working days as I had planned this lovely retirement watching all the old movies (one in the morning and one in the afternoon) but my cousin did change all of that and I was able to persuade Edward to travel to Europe/British Isles which also changed how we did things in between trips. I liked to see absolutely everything that I could in any particular area that we stopped and so the huge lists began with the directions attached and on our tour travels we added in our own personal tours in the evenings whenever we arrived. It was fantastic. But I have given away most of the VCR tapes and a lot of the DVDs as well keeping just a basic set that I enjoy because I do not apparently have enough time in a day to watch one most days. Just sometimes. 

Yesterday I did some more work on the Answer document that pertains to the Siderfin family at Timberscombe and East Linch. It is proving to be an interesting story as in the answer Robert Siderfin and family relate most of what was in the complaint as far as I can tell since I elected not to buy the complaint as well. I really just wondered what they would say in the answer and whether it would help me to locate which family this was. Indeed it has and I am simply continuing to transcribe out of curiosity. I suspect that this Robert Siderfin the elder married an Ursula Franck either a Franck by birth or a widow as that is starting to emerge from the document. It will end up having no impact on the writing/editing that I have done thus far except to be a further proof. But we will see how the document flows and I am perhaps one fifth of the way through now. 

I am not in a rush particularly plus I am realizing that I need to do the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter for the 1st of September. That very nearly slipped my mind. In the past three months the idea of writing a book on this family has solidified and will be my next effort in writing in the new year as the likely beginning time. I continue to collect information and will also work in the same manner with this book as with the Siderfin. I will begin as far back as I am able to research and then bring the material forward although continuing to work backwards through the available census and the Parish records to the 1500s/1600s when these Pencombe/Pincombe/Pyncombe families dispersed from North Molton/South Molton area into North West Devon and other areas including London especially. It will be at least two years in the writing I estimate. The only advantage that I have with this book is personal history passed to me by my mother and then my uncle in the last  ten to fifteen years of his life when we used to spend time with him and he and I corresponded regularly or spoke on the telephone all of which I recorded and have available to me. That discussion though is limited to my  direct family only that lived first at North Molton and then in Bishops Nympton/Molland and then with Philip Pincombe in Gloucestershire as my direct line emigrated to Canada originally with others also in that direct line emigrating as well to Canada but also to the United States, Australia and South Africa. 

I have given myself until the end of the year to complete the Siderfin book and will publish it under a Creative Commons license in order that I can protect the contents from being published for profit making it free to download or be distributed to repositories that may wish a copy. Plus it will be then possible for descendants to edit my work with their own new publication even during my lifetime and correct/alter/change items for which new material is available or simply to maintain the lines and bring them forward as I will not publish anything that has occurred after 1920. 

Breakfast is next and I am hungry as usual. Last night we had a piece of salmon poached with dill which was quite delicious along with a broccoli salad which I quite enjoyed but that was many hours ago now! Another beautiful day in God's world and may peace be the choice of all of us as we manage our way through this wilderness of climate change and come to a better side by caution and care and respect and an end to greed, violence and envy. 

Tenth Siderfin Generation formatted

I completed the tenth Generation of the Siderfin family yesterday and will carry on into the eleventh today. Still awaiting the document from the National Archives of the UK. Not due until the middle of the month though and I am getting other items done. The formatting has needed doing for  a bit and once accomplished I will be able to send out sections to cousins to have a look if they so choose. 

I also want to get back to inserting material that I have and material from the original book by James Sanders although I also have obtained copies of those items as well from the records sometimes with more details with the burgeoning online presence of archives and their indexes. 

A pleasant walk on the beach last evening; the wind was fresh and much enjoyed. Fall is coming though; it is definitely starting to make its oncoming presence felt with the shorter day. My fingers itch to get on with my research but must get some yard work done as well. The fence will come down on the garden today. The bunnies are welcome to the produce that is left now. We have enjoyed the lettuces, onions, beans and herbs. The sunflowers are getting taller and taller and will soon come to flower heads. All signs of the coming fall. Then winter; glorious winter with all that snow and long days of research. Skiing too just to give breaks to the day. 

The Pencombe book is slowly forming in my mind and I will try to find out more about the Pencombe family of Herefordshire and whether proof can be found that it was this family that came with Lord de la Zouch to North Molton in the latter part of the 1480s. It is an exciting prospect but the story of the Pencombe family of North Molton itself is equally exciting as they moved out from North Molton into the surrounding towns and villages in North Devon. My mother knew some of the stories of her Pincombe ancestors and did share them when I was young and later when I moved away and she continued to look at her Pincombe family even visiting the Family Search Library to learn more about what she remembered. 

The Andover Blake family book is also sitting on the back burner of my brain as I contemplate transcribing the Latin Manor documents that I have. I can see the name Blake there (John Blake) and must learn more about that as well. The Blake family was also in Berkshire in those early days and the wills point to a friendship perhaps or even kinship between these families although I am fairly certain that the connection with the Calne Blake family is on the female side of that family with a female Blake of that line marrying a male Blake of the Andover line. Were they related beyond that I do not actually think so. The yDNA that claims to trace back to the Calne Blake line is more likely of a Norman origin and that does show in the yDNA tested. The Andover line (my brother's results) show a more ancient line in the British Isles with the hypothesis that at some point in the early 1300s the earliest Blake noted in that area had perhaps taken on the surname of his wife's family. Not sure of that and time will tell. 

Other than that it is early but I am awake and hungry for my breakfast. Next item of the day is jumping jacks and then breakfast.

Rain beautiful rain

If there is one thing Canada really needs at the moment it is rain particularly in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia where fires are raging. Over 1M hectares have burned in Alberta since this fire season began so fast after the winter snowmelt had begun. Rain is good here as well because the ground is dry in spite of the heavy snowfall last year. The rivers are still high though so lots of water here we just need it to keep falling from the clouds to enrich the land that has lost its snow cover. The sun is baking Canada for sure; climate change affects the northern (and southern but there are fewer of them) areas the most. 

Yesterday I completed the cleaning and preparing the back garden for planting in the morning. Then my daughter moved the garden soil from the big yellow bag and we planted in an area where we are not likely to collect very much carrots, radishes, beets and dill. The rabbits will probably beat us to most of that for sure but it is hidden behind the raspberry bushes so we are less visible and might keep them away from the top of the garden although we will fence that with chicken wire. It does appear that one of the rabbits (perhaps the male) is somewhat tame (a domestic rabbit that has been let free perhaps) and the female rabbit is producing litter after litter! The newborns were in the raspberries yesterday for a while but back safely with the mother once again. Do I mind? Not actually it is funny watching their antics in the yard. Before we mowed yesterday they could run freely all through the deep grass and were less visible but now they will have to be cautious or the hawks will get them as the lawns are now mowed; the bees have so many flowers now that cutting down the dandelions and other wild flowers will not be missed by them plus they are coming to the end of their flowering cycle as well. Today rain and tomorrow the top of the garden will be planted and it is perhaps 50% larger than the bottom portion and we will put in onions (do not need to fence them) and then lettuces, green beans, spinach, herbs - parsley, basil and dill. Then the next big project to prepare the areas for the cherry tomatoes and the green peppers for ourselves and cucumbers at the back for the racoon since that does seem to keep it back there somewhat or it just stops coming because it is eating better elsewhere. Haven't seen it for a few days since the neighbours and ourselves chased it off - perhaps it took the hint that sitting on our bird feeder was not desirable. 

As well I got a start on the Pincombe/Pinkham Newsletter. At the moment I am still toying with the idea that Philip Pynkeham is a brother to John, William and Thomas Pencombe. The spelling is interesting on the 1544 Subsidy. Philip is located in Tawstock which is to the west of North Molton and this is the area (Barnstaple/Bideford) where Pinkham first appears in the records other than this 1544 record. On the 1581 Subsidy the name is recorded as Edward Pencombe in the same area. Perhaps a son of Philip? 

The distance from North Molton to Tawstock (and the main road does flow this way) but there are also back roads with the average distance being 16 miles (25 kilometres). The River Taw has a tributary the River Mole which flows into the Taw River at Barnstaple having traveled from the Exmoor which is located just north of North Molton so the likely means of transportation perhaps in the 1500s. The River Mole (Wikipedia) takes its name from the market towns of North and South Molton and was known as the Nymet. One can see how the movement out of North Molton for the Pencombe family was a logical and gradual one (my line was at Bishops Nympton just to the east of South Molton). 

I am hoping that the document which I ordered from the National Archives (Inquisition Postmortem for John de Pencombe in Herefordshire) might just arrive in the next couple of days as I would like to see which forenames of Pencombe appear in this document. Although it is early in the time period I would really like to look at; it will be interesting to see the document. I continue with my duolingo latin lessons and will try to keep that up every day now. I was working slowly from text books before COVID but this online course is rather interesting. 

The morning is passing quickly and to keep on track must do my breakfast now (but first the second set of jumping jacks!) and then I will be ready for my Latin Lesson at 9:00 a.m.

I have to say that I think Past Governor General David Johnston gave good advice following his appointment as a special rapporteur to examine the need for a public inquiry into foreign influence in our elections. First and foremost he saved us from yet another circus on TV in Ottawa and this one being very problematic because it involves our security arm of the government - CSIS. They are accountable to the public yes but their methods are best kept somewhat private although I do agree that we should receive more information when there is known interference that would not otherwise hinder their investigations. The Conservative party refused to talk to David Johnston which was somewhat of an expected stand given that when they were last in power they did nothing about foreign influence. The NDP want to spend millions of Canadian taxpayer money on an inquiry simply as an election gamble (people might think they are responding and vote for them when they wouldn't otherwise); the money is best spent elsewhere they are the first to complain the government isn't giving enough freebies to the less fortunate amongst us. And so I am quite content that we are not going to waste all of that money on a public inquiry which would create more questions than answers. This is simply because all of the information can not be given to us publicly. I do hope we can move on now. Time for my Latin Lesson.
 

Caught up on the images from another researcher - almost finished

I did catch up on the images and in total  there are 810 items that I have selected. I did not select Pink or any derivatives of that possibility as that is a standing surname still found in the UK. There were smaller ones that I also discarded because they still exist in the UK and I can be limiting in my thoughts. I have a column that lets me restore the original entry form; there is a line for the image number making it easy to go back and check the image. I can separate Baptisms from Marriages easily. I have a single column entry for the year as well as the entire date. I have a separate column for the mother's name. By separating out the marriages I can easily acquire the spouses in a file. So I am happy with the file as it appears to cover any possibility of sort that might come to my mind. The Place is individual as well, the forenames and surnames each have their own columns. 

Next item to have a look at is the Herefordshire Visitation - I purchased all of the Visitations at some point in the past that could possibly or remotely interest me. Someday all of this will go to the Anglican Church Archives near me (if they still want it) and so I was generous in what I selected as they can make good use of it. The time for that is perhaps still far off but one never knows really. I am willing to continue writing until I have completed all of my tasks but my eyes are not one of my strong features unfortunately. That has been the case my entire life though and I have made it successfully this far. The medical student that once told my grandmother I would be blind by the time I was twenty was somewhat mistaken but he was only a student. I remember him saying that actually and thinking what a strange thing to say in front of a child - my solution was to learn Braille at the tender age of seven years! There were books in the library for that. Mostly I always ignored people as a child but did listen to what they were saying and always remembered to be polite as my mother had asked me to be like that since I did have this habit of being rather abrupt with people. I did notice though that if I found people to be overly friendly and difficult to keep away I could do the reverse and be very friendly and kind and forward a bit (not so much as to take up my time to any extent) and they would eventually leave me alone as they probably got tired of me fairly quickly! I am like an encyclopaedia and can talk up a storm of details when I want to do that. Enough about me for sure and back to work. I am no longer that polite because when I turned 75 and I was widowed I decided that I could revert to being me - very blunt. That way you will not get scammed quite so easily by people pretending to be friendly. 

I have divided up the main file into four workbooks in Excel - 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, and anything else but it is mostly 1800s.  I will concentrate on the 44 entries from the 1500s for the next Issue of the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter. Trying to fish out thoughts that I have as a result of entries that I do not recognize (I will add that information to each line as I go through the items singly). I think I will now sort on the Baptism/Marriage column and then put a few lines between the two sets of data and re-sort into year range. In the 1500s this yields 30 baptisms and 14 marriages. I do have a Notes column where I can record the known items and how they relate to John Pencombe (thought to be by me the first Pencombe at North Molton with Lord de la Zouch in the latter part of the1480s).

Baptisms

There are six entries for North Molton until  the early 1560s and then one in the 1570s, four in the 1590s. 

There are two entries for Bideford in the 1560s, another in the 1580s and four in the 1590s. 

One entry for Ilfracombe in the 1570s. 

There is one entry in the 1570s for Roborough by Torrington, three in the 1580s and three in the 1590s. 

There is one entry for Chittlehampton in the 1570s. 

There is one entry for Molland in the 1590s. 

There is one entry for Barnstaple in the 1590s.

There is one entry for Bishops Nympton in the 1590s.

Marriages

There are six entries for North Molton until the mid 1560s.

There is one entry for Roborough by Torrington in the 1570s.

There is one entry for Bideford in the 1570s, there are two entries in the 1580s.

There is one entry for Charles in the 1570s.

There is one entry for Barnstaple in the 1590s.

There is one entry for Bishops Nympton in the 1590s.

There is one entry for Abbotsham in the 1590s.

These entries do give you an impression that the center was North Molton (and the Visitation of Devon 1620 did give support to that idea). The movement appeared to be mostly to the west of North Molton, slightly south of North Molton but not really very much to the east. The Charles entry seems somewhat out of place in the Marriages. I will carry on with these thoughts in tomorrow's blog. The newspaper is starting to shape up in mind somewhat but still pretty fluid.

Reviewed the Herefordshire Visitation 1569 and did not find any entries for Pencombe. Not surprising given that one of the name accompanied Lord de la Zouch to North Molton in the latter part of the 1480s. If they had land they probably lost it before or when King Henry VII was crowned. Likely right after the Battle of Bosworth Field which would account for John Pencombe leaving with Lord de la Zouch. That some members of the family remained in Herefordshire is in the records but they do appear to be of reduced circumstances. A very polite English idiom from my childhood that my grandmother used to use!

Will have to see what sort of tax subsidies are online for Herefordshire. 

Will continue working on the new information (from yesterday's new image) to insert it and one to go. Added the new set and it is all Cornwall. Joe Flood and I have had that discussion on Pincombe in Cornwall - he wondered if that was their ancient home and this data doesn't begin until the 1600s leaving one to ponder that likely it is simply spill-over into Cornwall from Devon and mostly in Morwenstow, Bodmin, Talland, and Morval. No entries for the 1500s with the earliest being 1614 at Morwenstow. They could be economic migrants and will look into that. The forenames are generally as expected although Nicholas is uncommon. Pincombe does not appear on the Visitations of Cornwall although will have a longer look just to make sure I did not miss a particular spelling.

Gardening is starting to beckon. The last hosta plant was starting to emerge so I cleared away the growth of wild flowers to give it breathing room. Perhaps today we might get a little garden soil spread around as it is going to rain this evening into tomorrow. Bedding plants all purchased but will not likely plant them before the end of the month - time will tell on that. The grass is growing nicely. The trees are quickly filling in now. The racoon is getting braver and was actually sitting in the bird feeder but I banged on the window and the next door neighbour chased him off of his property and so he scampered away. He/she wasn't on my back doorstep this morning. Generally they stay away from people but will be back all summer I am sure. The rabbit is afraid of the racoon I would say. The birds are not bothered. A big crow flying at a racoon suspended on the feeder could give it a run for its life for sure! The racoon must be hungry though but it is garbage day today so was perhaps just getting a look at the lay of the land. Smart mammals for sure. Good memories.

Woke up again today with strains of different hymns in my mind - a lovely way to wake up. God's world is always with us; we are very blessed. Breakfast soon; the best meal of the day for sure although last night we had orange chicken - my daughter's style. It was lovely. Tonight I think it is some sort of a bean dish with special pasta and some fresh asparagus and we also picked up some lovely fresh spinach. I do love spinach. I may have been in the minority in my childhood  but my grandfather would always let me eat the spinach right out of the garden and there is nothing tastier when the first greens are showing up in the garden. 

Pencombe, Pincombe, Pinkham - Discovery Catalogue, Kew, UK

 This document for a Pencombe in Herefordshire has come up on the Discovery search. Reference C 135/178/25 and it is a John Pencombe or de Pencombe. Inquisition, Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III. I shall have to order it as I did not collect that one when we were at Kew our several times. Not sure why but I did not find it on my search list so maybe wasn't indexed or I just missed it. It is listed as being between 25 Jan 1363 and the 24 Jan 1364. I have requested a record review which can then move to a scan and my purchase of the scan. It will be an interesting document if they are able to scan it. 

I was absolutely amazed at some of the documents which were available to look at when we visited Kew in 2010 and 2013. In just three years a great deal of indexing had been done between the two trips and I was able to look at documents that were hundreds of years old. One in particular - Pincombe - was still rolled up with its likely original cording which I untied so that it could be unrolled and photographed. My fingers were actually shaking as I did so but those documents were pretty sturdy. This one unrolled was immaculate on the inside - it was an amazing moment actually. And I had a pile like that to go through. We spent almost four solid days at Kew on the second trip.

The forename William (Pencombe) does not select any records to view on the discovery database nor did I find anything for Christopher, Richard or Robert other forenames found in this family in the 1500s. The forename Thomas will bring up at least one of which I do have a copy: From the Calendar of Patent Rolls and the reference C 143/424/7. The original image is very interesting but also under copyright so cannot show that one on my blog (it is all in Latin):

1395 20 May Westminster (membrane 5)
Licence, for 100 s. paid in the hanaper by Philip Webbe, chaplain of a
chantry of St. Mary in the parish church of Bromyord, for the alienation
in mortmain by John Falke of a messuage in Bromyord, and by John
Hunte or another there, and by Thomas Pencombe and Robert Stanford
of five messuages and half an acre of meadow in the same place, not held in
chief, to the said chaplain and his successors, in aid of their maintenance.
18 Richard II, volume 5, page 582

The document's information tells me that this Pencombe family is established in this Pencomb area but I never do find a lot of records for them in Herefordshire. So likely a small freeholder perhaps with obligations to the Lord of the Manor locally although a mystery how this Pencombe family came to be associated with John la Zouche, 7th Baron Zouch, against whom an attainder was issued in 1485 (reversed in 1495). This Zouch  family is generally associated with North Molton amongst other holdings. 

Searching on Pencombe and Devon brings up three documents. The first is the will of Joane Pencombe the likely widow of Thomas Pencombe which was written in 1563 but not probated until 23 October 1590 although why it was not is a mystery. Her husband Thomas disappears from the records in 1544 and no reference to his will is found.

Recorded: 30 July 2011
Source: Public Record Office, London, UK, # 207
Place: East Buckland, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 7 May 1563

[In margin] T[estator] Johanne Pencombe

1    In the name of God, Amen.  In the yeare
2    of our Lord God one thousand fyve hundred sixtie three and in the seaventh daie
3    of Maye That I Johane Pencombe widdowe of Est Buckland beinge of whole mynde
4    and in good remembrance (lauded be god) make and ordaine this my last will and
5    testament in this manner and forme followinge First I bequeathe my soule unto
6    allmightie God and my bodie to be buried in the Churche of Est Buckland there Item
7    I bequeath unto Richard Pencombe my sonne twentie poundes And to his sonne a
8    heafer of three yeares of age. Item I bequeath to John Locke my sonne in Law nyne
9    poundes. Item I bequeath to John Pencombe my sonne nyne poundes And to his
10    daughter a heafer. Item I bequeath to John Jasse my sonne in Lawe nyne poundes
11    Item I bequeath to John Jasse the younger six poundes thirteene shillings four pence
12    Item to Anne Takle twentie shillings Item to Amye Rolle six shillings eight pence
13    Item to Roberte Hollaniore a yearlinge Item to Thomas Hichton a ewe. Item to everie
14    of my Children's Children five shillinges eight pence. Item unto every of my godchildren
15    twelve pence apeece. Item to the poore twentie shillings. The residue of all my goodes
16    and everie parte thereof as well moveable as unmoveable not gyven nor bequeathed I give
17    and bequeath unto William Pencombe my sonne whome I make my executor and he to
18    bestowe it as he seemeth best And alsoe I devise and ordaine Sir John Taye John Hartill
19    and Richard Lympstable to be my overseers and wittnesses of this my last will and Testament
21    Probatum fuit Testamentum
22    Suprascriptum apud London coram venerabili, viro mag[ist]ro Will[iel]mo Levin Legium
23    Doctore ad exercend officium magisteri custodis sive Comissarii Curie Prerogative
24    Cant ltime deputat vicesimo tertio die mensis Octobris Anno Domini millesimo quin
25    Nonagesimo Juramento Thome Redman notary public procuratoris Willi[a]m Pencombe filii of
26    Executoris in h[uius]mo[d]i testamento nominat Qui commissa fuit administerato bonorum iurium et creditorum
27    Dicti defuncti de bene et fideliter administerand ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurat

List of Wills on the Devon Genuki website for Pencom(b)(e):

Pencomb     Christopher     South Molton     DEV           1585     W     le     BARN     BECK     W.      
Pencomb     Christopher     Southmolton [South Molton]     DEV           1585     W     le     BARN     BARN-R           £152-15s-8d
Pencomb     Eme     North Molton     DEV           1588     W     le     BARN     BECK     W.      
Pencomb     Thomas     Roborough     DEV           1578     W     le     BARN     BARN-R           £7-4s-8d
Pencomb     Thomas     South Molton     DEV           1601     W     le     BARN     BECK     T.      
Pencombe     Joane     East Buckland     DEV     widow     1590     W     co     PCC     PROB 11     76      
Pencombe     Johann     Estbuckland [East Buckland]     [DEV]     widow     1590     W     co     PCC     JHW     67 Drury      
Pencombe     Johanne     East Buckland     DEV           1563     W     tr     PCC     WWW    
Pencombe     John     North Molton     DEV           1576     W     le     BARN     BECK     W.      
Pencombe     John     Northmolton [North Molton]     DEV           1576     W     le     BARN     BARN-R           £46-19s-4d
Pencombe     Philip     Tawstock     DEV           1564     W     le     BARN     BECK     W.      
Pencombe     Richard     Chittlehampton     DEV           1588     W     le     BARN     BECK     W.      
Pencombe     William     North Molton     DEV           1564     W     le     BARN     BECK     W.      
Pencome     John     South Molton     DEV           1571     W     le     BARN     BECK     W.      

All of these individuals are more or less known to me in my database. Positively identifying them is not too difficult (but is subjective) given the limited number of people in this area. 

There are a lot of various spellings of Pincombe/Pinkham but I am concentrating on the 1500s. 

The other two documents gleaned from the search terms Devon and Pencombe refer to the Raisheleigh family of South Molton and Barnstaple and John Pencombe known to be at South Molton in the 1580s. This is interesting because it is in both the South Molton and Barnstple area. It may show that the John Pencombe in South Molton and the John Pencombe in Barnstaple are one and the same which is another proof I am also looking for as one of the yDNA testers is descendant of the Barnstaple Pincombe family. This would take the proof back from John Pincombe/Mary Charly generation (my 4x great grandparents) all the way to John Pencombe and his wife Emma (John being my 11 x great granduncle). That would be amazing for sure. I have never clearly understood the relationship between the Rashleigh family and the Pincombe family. Christopher Rashleigh married an An Pincombe in the early 1600s but it could be that I might be able to resolve this. It has been confusing because the article in Devon Notes and Queries says that An is a daughter of William married to Emot Snow but they had just two daughters according to his will - Johane and Katherin. So perhaps a shortform for Johane - just An. No ideas on that but it is intriguing. The only problem I have with it; The line of Thomas was not armigerous (William was his son and William had a son so also a grandson); that belonged to the eldest son in this era so perhaps they were only alluding to the fact that the uncle of An Pincombe was armigerous (John Pencombe or South Molton) when the comment was made in the Notes and Queries (Devon) that she was from an armigerous family. Interesting though to think about all of these things I have not looked at for twelve years. I pulled away from some of the really heavy research when Edward took ill in 2011 and never really got back into the early reading again until this past winter. 

Searching on Pincombe/Pincomb reveals eleven records but nothing particularly new in the 1400s/1500s. Searching on Pinkham does not reveal anything prior to 1700 which is about the time when I noticed this spelling entering into the Pincomb family of West Devon. Occasionally there were signs of it like Philip Pinkeham at Tawstock in the mid 1500s. But searching on Pinkeham does not reveal any entries. So have I learned everything that I can from the National Archives searching just on the surname? I did begin the process to order the Postmorten Inquisition for John Pencombe (1363-1364) which is a bit early to be helpful in 1485-89. It is too early for the War of the Roses (1455-1485) and the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485) but might give me some insights into this family in Herefordshire prior to these times. It is a lean time for records although as the continuous task of indexing the information that sits in the National Archives one never knows what might surface in the year's ahead. After all the UK has been through a lot of wars in their past where these precious documents were constantly being hidden in deep dark places to protect them and it was probably done in a hurry so misplaced items was probably a reality. As time passes they will meet the light of day in this great century which sees the scanning and permanent imaging of these ancient documents which are amazingly in very good shape for imaging often enough! Even with my camera I was able to make some good images of the early documents that I was able to review.

Yesterday was the last day for chicken stew (three days again and keep trying to head towards my daughter's idea that two days is enough in a row!). But I must admit that having two days without cooking is actually fun. The joys of being 77 for sure; just following one's inclination which for me is being a hermit just as I was in my teen years. Polite of course as my mother insisted but not having my life full of things that I do not really want to do (like meetings, social interactions and the like). I do always try to be polite; it is a good policy and really what Jesus brought to us in the new commandments. 

On to the day, breakfast is next.

Today's Spider Solitaire was a good reminder of dealing with life

Generally I put the most difficult tasks in front of me first but when a solution is not readily available then I do the easier tasks as if preparing the mind for the more difficult one ahead. Works for me - all games completed in about the same amount of time. 

Good to see the sun up today and no rain - we have had a lot but really we do not control that anyway so just have to appreciate what comes. Mother Nature, as always, is in control. Hopefully my big bag of garden earth will come tomorrow as planned. I would like to get a little of it spread and grass growing in this delightful grass growing weather. Still no dandelions but that will be soon; need enough light for them for sure as we gradually come out of the long dark winter. 

Yesterday I worked on the Pencombe family and it was interesting. I have probably 95 to 98% of the entries in my database but a couple of new ones are there although they are on the charts that were prepared by the earlier researchers. Now that I am happy with the first three generations working up the fourth should be somewhat revealing because the family is moving out from North Molton and some of the places are known to me and the lines that go there but others are most elusive especially with spelling changes from Pencombe to Pincombe to Pyncombe to Pinkham and there are other derivations. So that continues today and through the month as I work through the pages sent to me. It is good to have fresh looks at the data and I have a goal in mind now that I really didn't before. I went into surname studies sort of on a whim after completing the Pincombe Profile for my cousin George DeKay. Since he never married his line ends with him although his siblings, cousins gave him lots of close relatives (he was my fourth cousin) so it is nice to mention his name; that is the wonder of genealogy perhaps that a name never dies really it is forever remembered in the lines of a family. I shall try very hard not to get distracted from my task now. I want to eventually put all of this material into a book on the Pencombe family of North Molton and have given myself quite a bit of time, God willing, to accomplish the task. 

The other task in the future for me is a book on the Andover Blake family. Gradually as my life slows down and I am sure that it will, I want to concentrate on the Blake and Pincombe families as they were the surnames of my parents. I still have a lot of work to do that I planned which includes transcribing the rest of the Blake wills and publishing each of the counties of England to individual *.pdfs for the sets of wills in these counties and they are numerous (and I have blogged all the ones that I have transcribed). The thousands of hits a month that are on my website are mostly those wills I suspect. This is a big family (although not a single family; there are many founding families in the United Kingdom for Blake and initially when one looks at the Calendar of Patent Rolls for the early years (up to the mid 1400s) these families are in distinct areas of the United Kingdom as it is now known but then England. They range from being prominent and well-known to quiet farmers locked away in small areas in England. The Andover Blake family was such a family; quietly managing their land (likely freehold) in Knights Enham at least from the 1400s (and likely earlier but need to verify the information on the Manor Documents) on until it was sold in the time of James Blake who left his will in the 1700s. They held other parcels of land in the area as well but my own line was in Andover early on and the individual heading up that line in Andover was a Richard Blake (10x great grandfather) a Draper. The 50 pounds that he inherited in his father William Blake (11x great grandfather)'s will must have helped him to establish himself. As far as I can tell though this line mostly dwindled down in that area with Joseph Blake (4x great grandfather) moving in 1757 to Upper Clatford where he married Joanna King (4x great grandmother) whose father was a small farmer there. I think their mothers were second cousins or the like and my line was then at Upper Clatford and my grandfather Samuel George Blake went to Eastleigh near Southampton to work on the railway after finishing his apprenticeship as a Blacksmith. So an interesting part of the Andover Blake family for me but there are other interesting stories coming out of the Andover Blake family. 

Tomorrow is Coronation Day and I shall be up to watch that but probably not until my usual waking time of 6:00 a.m. Although one never knows. I shall be sitting there watching and thinking of my grandfather, parents and siblings also watching the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 when I was seven years of age. I knew she was our Queen, we sang God save the Queen just as we had sung God Save the King at school every day. But this black and white spectacular was eagerly watched by my grandfather and he enjoyed it very much. I think I shall enjoy watching King Charles III crowned because he has been a fascinating person his entire life with his stands on the environment when it wasn't trendy and the same with Organic Farming. I do believe he was even laughed at and ridiculed for his thoughts but time has proven him to be so right. Time hasn't been kind to him in other ways; the fishbowl of Royal Life robbed him of his independence but there it is now he will be King and I think an excellent one. King of Canada is also a great idea because the alternatives are dreadful. Politics is fine but it is nice to have something solid at the top that has continuity. We will see how that goes; of course being of 100% British ancestry I know that I am biased where the Royal Family is concerned. I really do not care how they live their lives so long as they are respectful of the people. I think they generally live good lives now because life has let them be themselves and not controlled by their elders in terms of whom they marry etc. Theirs is a life of service and they do it very well. My own opinion of course. 

I prefer my quiet life style; always have really and medically speaking it is a necessity for me and always will be. I think working at the hospital for ten years (when my daughters were in their teens) was really good for me as I went to work early and came home late because I worked in the west end and it is a long way from where I live. Along with going to Church quietly on Sundays at Christ Church Cathedral (which I still do on YouTube), I led a very quiet life except for helping Edward with his activities. But I tried very hard to stay in the background and still do. So on to the day, breakfast and then research. I shall say my prayers for the many situations in the world that need them and wait for the return of my daughter once again as she does her research for the summer. Do I wish she was here? I want her to be happy and so where ever she is happy that is where she should be. At 77 my time is likely short in the overall picture but this is her time to do the work that she loves doing and especially I am proud of how she helps people with learning disabilities to attain their dreams (most of her students are not in that situation she does teach masters and PhD students for the most part although some undergraduate) but the ones that are I am glad she does that. She has personal knowledge that helps to guide her. My other daughter is a busy physician doing family medicine, hospitalist and emergency medicine. I am very proud of both of them for their enormous contribution to society. That is why we are here really to help society to attain the best that they can.

The sun is shinning beautifully.

Interesting weather continuing

Another rainy day perhaps; snow was mentioned but not yet seen and we are  1 degree celsius so anything is possible. Weather in Canada in April is very unpredictable except perhaps by our wonderful weather people. 

The Bible Reading today was from 1 Peter 1:13-25 and the entire passage is interesting but I especially like a quote:

"Humans wither like grass,

and their glory fades

like wild flowers.

Grass dries up,

and flowers fall

to the ground.

But what the Lord has said

will stand forever."

I summarize the section before this quote to say that the New Commandments which Jesus brought to us from God are a winning constant in our lives. We must love the Lord God with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind this being the first and greatest commandment and the second is like unto it (and I take it to mean it is also one of the greatest commandments) We must love our neighbour as ourselves. Love is the key word and we must find that in our world because only our true love of the world will save it. That is why we created the United Nations. 

On to the Kipp Newsletter today; cleaning all accomplished and I would like to finish it by the end of the week so that I can get back to the Siderfin book. Next month I want to work on Pincombe once again. 

The Pincombe history goes back (known to us) to the late 1480s in Devon and I believe it extends back even further in Herefordshire at a place called Pencombe at least to the early 1300s. Although I created a yDNA study at FT DNA I have done very little with it partly because the number of testers is so small. One of my third cousins once removed has tested and he matches our mutual fifth cousin in Australia taking the line back to John Pincombe married to Mary Charly in 1767 at Bishops Nympton, (John was baptized 13 Feb 1728 and son of John Pincombe and Grace Manning who likewise married 20 Mar 1725 at Bishops Nympton) since they are the most recent common ancestors (MRCA) for them. Another match within the project is likely descendant of the Barnstaple/Bideford branch of the family although a name change has blurred that a little but it was a female COAD who reverted back to her maiden name having been married to a Pincombe (early 1800s) and they had several children. Family lore of the Pincombe family at South Molton has members of that family moving to the Barnstaple area in the 1600s but I have not yet proven that line. This would take the matching line back to John Pincombe son or grandson of  Pencombe who came to North Molton with Lord de la Zouch in the late 1400s. There is another match in common with this group of three (using the Pinkham surname) and his line traces back to an emigrant to the English Colonies in 1750 but little is know about his ancestor and I have not yet put time into looking at that. There is a second group of known descendants of the Richard Pinkham family of Dover, New Hampshire (although one uses the Pyncombe spelling) and there are two members of this group that are close and a third that is in the same general area of match. Although yDNA studies are very interesting and informative they do not take into account events in the history of a family particularly the case when a family line is daughtering out and a decision is made to "adopt" one of the sister's children as a descendant of a brother who does not have children. This can happen long ago in the past and will likely lead to an apparent break in the line (in the case of primogeniture though titled or landed property can not pass in this way but most property in the Pincombe/Pinkham family was freehold or copyhold). Although a non paternal event is suggested by some as a reason I suspect that very often in the past it was an adoption where possible inheritance depended upon the son of a daughter in a line daughtering out taking on his uncle/grandfather's surname and inheriting the property. The more people who test the easier it might be to spot such events particularly if they occur after the introduction of the parish registers and their regular use. One set of data is R haplogroup and one set is I haplogroup. I will do a little more work on the deep ancestry of both of these groups for the next newsletter to discuss the areas to which the deep ancestry points.The British Isles does have areas that were more likely to be one haplogroup or another although this is percentage more than a lack of or non existence in any area.

I have a project with a set of papers listing events which has been given to me by another researcher in the family that I want to work on in May; so my May will be busy with gardening and analyzing. Sounds like a wonderful time although I am still only a little convinced on gardening but it is my daughter's joy to garden. 

Off to breakfast, the day is young but rather wintery looking at the moment but that is April; one is used to it.

Back to Siderfin

I discovered that the website  https://westcountrybooks.com/ permits downloads of some very interesting items including the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy. With that now in hand I was able to check out Bideford and no Pencombe or derivative name on that Subsidy. Good news as it does support my notion that Pencombe was up until the mid 1520s only at North Molton (and South Molton). Having arrived there likely in 1489 with Lord de la Zouch, the Pencombe individual was likely the John Pencombe found on the Subsidy at North Molton and right below him on the Subsidy is Thomas Pencombe. John has a value of Goods listed at 5 and Thomas has Wages listed at 1; it does look like a father/son relationship. I feel quite content with my assumption and leave it to those who follow me in the Pincombe/Pinkham quest to discover anything more that might clarify what I have developed as a thesis for this family in Devon. I would like to explore this Pencombe family in Hertfordshire but will leave that for the book that I would like to write on my mother's father's family. All in all a very successful happening and it is thanks to  Bernard Welchman who provides the service and years ago; way back in about 2008 or so I purchased a number of CDs from him that have been my mainstay looking into Devon and Somerset. 

With Siderfin, I completed the 1871 and 1881 census arranging the individuals into their families. I also went back to 1851 and arranged the families in numerical order commencing with Family 1 and continued that process right up to the end of 1881. It makes it easier to look back and connect the families. I tend towards alphabetical or numerical order whichever serves the purpose. It is rigorous and easy to manipulate. I will complete up to the 1911 census and then go back to the Births, Marriages and Burials that I have collected and see what state they are in as that collection too was completed in 2008-2010. If not into families than I will do that plus put them into the family groupings as defined in the census of 1841 which was my key going forward through the census and will also serve going backwards into the Parish Registers. Eventually I will likely replace the single number with a village/town and a number but that comes in the future. At the moment simply getting them into a good robust family number leads me onward to a better understanding of the Siderfin Family and will help me as I move forward from the early to mid 1600s. There can be gaps in the Parish Registers during the Commonwealth Period and I will rely on the Lay Subsidies to help me. I now have two quests for the Lay Subsidies for Somerset - both the Blake family and the Siderfin family. Perhaps I will be able to schedule myself into the Family History Library to locate that material. 

Prayers continuing for the recovery of those who survived the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Prayers also for the miners trapped in China. As we reach the one year mark in the war which Russia is waging against the Ukrainian people, prayers for the Ukranian people and that the cease-fire which China has proposed could happen and that Russia get out of Ukraine where they have no business to be as has been passed by a huge majority in the United Nations General Meeting. Glory to Ukraine. Death to the Invaders.

Ash Wednesday - 2023

As we enter the most sacred time in the Church Year which culminates in Holy Week and Easter Sunday, may God bless the world and give us the strength to deal with those who care only about themselves and threaten us with nuclear war. That they would even dare to destroy your planet and all of your creations is beyond the pale. We are a God-loving and God-fearing people who respect this land and do not foolishly threaten those who share this planet with us. Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord and I do wait on God's vengeance for what is being done to the peoples of Ukraine by Russia and Belarus. Belarus well knows that Ukraine is not going to attack them. Presumably Lukashenko is also a Psychopathic Nazi calling up 100,000 to 150,000 to prepare to fight. Next thing he will be threatening us with nuclear weapons as well.

How childish; how infantile that really is. Watching the faces of the smiling syncophants as  they cheered on the Nazi Psychopathic Leader Putin is a sad sight before God. When all that aid was landed in Russia by the Western allies to help them fight the Nazis during the Second World War Stalin had the grace to thank them for helping to fight against Nazis tyranny. No one should be attacked by their neighbour so ruthlessly as Ukraine has been by the Nazi Psychopaths of Russia (we all (the so-called West) stand with Ukraine and will continue to give them the arms they need to kick the Nazi Psychopathic Russians out of their country). Russia basically remains untouched even though there is enough power in Europe alone to send Russia back into the Stone Age but we wait for the goodness that must be there in the Russian people to stop this monster and his smiling syncophants that we could see yesterday during the Nazi Psycopathic Putin's speech. Can they actually look at themselves in a mirror and see how disgusting those few Russians are that control millions of Russians. Their faces are forever recorded in digital format so that we will always know who they are. Their sons are sitting down to dinner with their families; most Russians' sons are being told to fight and die in a war against their cousins, their neighbours and their best friends. After all Ukraine stood between the Nazi armies of the Second World War and Russia fighting valiantly to help protect Russia. Your lust and greed for land is disgusting you Nazi Psychopaths. 

Cleaning all completed and on to the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter. I have worked through what I believe to be the next edition of that early family Chart; labeled Chart 1. It is unlikely that I can complete Chart 2 for North Molton as I want to purchase a CD that has to come by mail and that will take time. But for the moment I am pleased with my progress with the original Pencombe who arrived at North Molton in the beginning of the reign of Henry VII with Lord de la Zouch. I am missing Bideford in the 1524-7 Subsidy but should have it once I have ordered the CD and it has arrived. 

I also worked on the Ancestry autosomal DNA matches that my siblings, my cousin and myself have with individuals who, according to their online trees, descend from Richard Pinkham an early emigrant to the Royal Colony of New Hampshire circa 1642. The Excel file has 35 entries with 5 of the members having multiple entries for the different siblings/cousins. There are 26 distinct individuals in total in the chart. I have removed five individuals from consideration as descendants of Richard Pinkham because I can trace them back to an emigrant who came later to the American Colonies and the United States of America as it became at a later time. There are five private trees reducing the number of significant matches to 16 individuals. Another five individuals list their ancestor at Charleston, Massachusetts Bay Colony or other than New Hampshire and they have also been excluded for the moment. That leaves a total of 11 individuals who appear to be descendant of Richard Pinkham of New Hampshire. These matches range from 8 centimorgans to 12 centimorgans. Normally I would only look at matches of 20 centimorgans or more but Ancestry uses a piece of software called "Timber" to extract DNA from matches that are common to particular areas rather than specific family inherited DNA. The four siblings have a varied amount of shared Pincombe DNA and I in particular only share on one particular chromosome with my known cousin making matches rather interesting within our family grouping. Unfortunately none of the eleven matches fits into a category where my cousin and I are matching the same person as that would tell us which chromosome and the actual location of the match shared with the individual. Only two of the matches in this group of eleven are shared by more than one sibling/cousin. I will present this material in the Newsletter although the IDs of the individuals will be anonymized. 

Why would I choose to use such small amounts as a demonstration of possible cousin-ship especially when we are looking at individuals who would be 10th cousins? The main reason is a small case study that I did earlier with such matches in the Sedgwick-Blake family of Massachusetts and my own Blake line in the Andover, Hampshire, England area. Joanne Blake baptized 16 Oct 1612 at St Marys Andover married Major General Roberte Sedgwicke 6 Jan 1634 and her brother William Blake married Ann Hellier 5 Sep 1644 at St Marys Andover. William is my 8x great grandfather and there are a number of small shared matched between my siblings, myself and descendants of the Sedgwicke family. Totally unexpected but there is a likely reason. The parents of Joanne and William were Richard Blake and Jone (Blake) Blake. The grandfather of Richard and great grandfather of Jone was Nicholas Blake married to Margaret (Blake) Blake. The close marriages resulted in a concentration of Blake DNA albeit a good distance back but allowed for these small matches to occur. The other item of interest is the effect that the software "Timber" mentioned earlier has on matches. Since I have a number of matches with known cousins who have also tested elsewhere or transferred their Ancestry results to another database I know that "Timber" can do a sizeable reduction in the size of the shared DNA. Hence a match of 12 centimorgans can come much closer to 20 centimorgans - my preferred minimum.

On to breakfast. Beautiful sunrise but we are promised another snowstorm.

Beautiful sunrise but cold again

Only minus 14 degrees celsius at 7:30 a.m. this morning and we are promised a snowfall later today. The laneway all melted out so ready for the next deluge. Cleaning all accomplished yesterday and will finish today with just the basement to do. 

Continuing to solidfy the first three generations of Pencombe at North Molton/South Molton. It would be fascinating to know the surname of John Pencombe's son John's wife. Her first name was likely Emma but all else is lost to time perhaps although  the Manor Books for South Molton might be helpful. Since he is shown with Goods at 10 on the 1524-7 Subsidy and his son Christopher (who is likely a young child) with Goods at 5 his marriage must have been to an heiress. Perhaps it is significant that John Pencombe at South Molton was taxed in South Molton borough and his son Christopher was taxed in South Molton Parish. South Molton is a beautiful town with its beautiful facade on the main streets dating back to the days of wool merchants. We visited it in 2008. 

A little searching on the Discovery Catalogue at the National Archives of the United Kingdom reveals an item of interest in 1363/64 for a John Pencombe. Too early to be the Pencombe with Lord de la Zouche at North Molton but interesting to see that the name John was used by this Hertfordshire family.  I do not see any mention of a John Pencombe of Hertfordshire being investigated at the relevant time period before 1489 when he likely arrived at North Molton. The Manor Books of Pembroke Hertfordshire might provide more information. There is mention of John Pencombe and Thomas Pencombe in some of the records held by the National Archives. 

I tend to think this is a young person who has come to North Molton with Lord de la Zouch, likely as a page. He was protected for his devotion to Lord de la Zouch and brought with de la Zouch when he finally was released from being attainted and restored to some of his lands in 1489. Guessing age around 15 would make him old enough to marry by 1500 and the four children would have been born over a period from 1500 to 1520 perhaps since we find Thomas, next to the youngest possibly as his sister Margret Pencombe married in 1539 (Philip Kingdon 15 Nov 1539 at North Molton) when she would have been in her early 20s or older. Earning wages and found beside John Pencombe at North Molton one might think Thomas is in his teens in 1524 as the records were used from this year being the best preserved of the original documents. Interesting really and I must get into those early Pencombe documents that I photographed at Kew in 2010 and 2013. They are in latin and slowly my ability to manage improves - very slowly but perhaps sufficient to help me as I work through the early generations of this family. Interesting how the name evolved from Pencombe to Pyncomb(e) to Pincomb(e) and in the West Devon area around Bideford and Barnstaple to Pinkham. 

The question does remain though was there a distinct family named Pinkham in 1500 as we do find an outlier of this family with the name Philip Pynkeham at Tawstocke on the 1544 Subsidy with a worth of 8. By 1581 this is an Edward Pencombe at Tawstocke with Goods worth 5 at Tawstocke. By 1641the Protestation Returns do not list anyone in Fremington with the Pencombe etc surname. Moving forward to 1733 and the Freeholders Book at Fremington there isn't anyone with the surname Pencombe etc listed. If for what ever reason this family lost their land they would not appear in these early records other than the BMBs  of the parish which I shall have a look at in the Fremington Hundred and mostly at Tawstocke. I am unable to place Philip into the early family at this point in time so in the fourth generation he remains an outlier. Richard Pencombe at Bideford is, I suspect, a descendant of the North Molton line but I am at this time unable to assuredly place him into the family structure. However, I continue to forge ahead. 

Having reached this point I shall work on the autosomal DNA matches at Ancestry which have proven to be rather interesting given that I (along with my siblings and cousin) appear to have matches with a number of individuals who trace back in their trees to a Richard Pinkham of Dover Neck, New Hampshire. 

On to breakfast and the cleaning.

And it rages on

The Bible Reading today brought me back once again in my mind to the illegal and deadly war that Russia has produced in Ukraine. In 2 Peter 1 it is authored likely by St Peter but with the aid of Silvanus:

" Do your best to improve your faith by adding goodness, understanding, self-control, patience, devotion to God, concern for others, and love. If you keep growing in this way, it will show that what you know about our Lord Jesus Christ has made your lives useful and meaningful. But if you don't grow, you are like someone who is nearsighted or blind, and you have forgotten that your past sins are forgiven. "

Russia has been a sinful nation; we overlooked their enforced occupation of Eastern Europe in 1945 because we had just fought a deadly war and we did not want to continue that; we, the so-called west, have more respect for the world and its peoples. The prayers and the hopes (and my child mind recalls the Berlin Airlift because my brothers were pretending to be airplanes flying into Berlin running around the living room (I was three years of age and it is one of my earliest memories likely because it was such a tense time in the world in 1948)) were that we could have peace and so we settled for what happened as the allies closed in on Berlin and ended the war in Europe. As the years passed we tried to get along with Russia and when the Soviet Union fell apart (because Russia invaded Afghanistan and became bankrupt from doing that) we simply stood by as the Iron Curtain, created by Russia as the overlord of the Soviet Union collapsed, and helped those countries that claimed their independence once again to become free and sovereign States as accepted by the United Nations. We all tried to get along with Russia; including Russia in trade agreements and companies tried to help Russia to make better use of their natural resources - it was Russians oligarchs who became rich on the backs of the hard working Russians; no gain for the Russian people. Then Russia threw all of that away and attacked Ukraine demanding that they become a vassal state of Russia for ridiculous reasons that make no sense when the history of the world is examined. Russians are the nazis, psychopathic nazis who have invaded a sovereign country and continue their murderous war against the children, women and men of Ukraine. Russia has created this war. We continue to help Ukraine because that is what we in the so-called West do; we help people to throw off a nazi, psychopathic leader and his enablers.

Glory to Ukraine. Death to the invading Russians. 

Continuing prayers for the peoples of Turkey and Syria as they deal with the earthquake's over 45,000 deaths and continuing to rise. People still being found alive under the rubble thank God. 

I continue working on my Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter. I am happy with the first and second generation at North Molton but do have two outliers as timewise they are in that space of years when the Pincombe family was at North Molton (and South Molton) only  - namely   Philip Pynkeham on the 1544 Subsidy at Tawstocke and Richard Pencombe on the 1544 Subsidy at Bideford. They are at an age to be related to the third generation of Pencombe coming down from the Unknown Pencombe who arrived at North Molton with Lord de la Zouch according to the Visitation of Devon 1620. Lord de la Zouch being John LaZouche, 7th Baron Zouche, 8th Bar St Maur. The time period is the early part of the reign of Henry VII and a more exact date could be when the King removed the attainder and he was restored to some of his property in 1489. 

A George Pincombe is named as a grandson of William (East Buckland, Filleigh) and son of William (son of William and Emmott (Snow) Pincombe ( by the earlier researchers)). I did note surprisingly that there was a court case with a George and Dorothy Pincombe  - Litigation (1603-1625) - C 2/Jas1/P9/46 and the location for this particular case involved land in the parish of Dunster, Somerset. Since Pincombe is a fairly rare surname in Somerset in the 1600s that rather caught my eye.  George and his wife were buried at North Molton in 1610 the case with them involved would have carried on into their children's generation (Philip 1592, Emott 1594, William 1597, Johane 1599, Henrye 1602). There is a Henry Pincombe at South Molton on the Protestation Return in 1641 and a Philip Pincombe at Satterleigh. 

I do have the children of William and Emmotte (Snow) Pincombe as John, William, Symon, Richard, Thomas, Lewis, Peter, Johane and Katherin which does differ from the earlier Chart 1-2 (this from the Will of William Pincombe (PCC will probated 1602).  

The problem remains that William in his will of 1602 mentions his grandchildren but does not mention the two children of William his son (their baptisms are missing but they were baptized before 1602). I shall go back to the original once again and make sure I did not miss anything in my transcription. John the eldest (he married first so was making him the eldest) is mentioned with three children (William, John and Mary), Richard fourth son (and my ancestor) is mentioned with one son William. Although I have John as the eldest I do note that William is the first son mentioned in the will (he married four years after John). John is not mentioned until the end when William and John along with a neighbour Anthony Widlake are named as overseers and William's wife Emmott as executor. It has always been a confusion the Chart with the will. William could have already received his portion in terms of land. More research to really straighten out the said sons of William (George and William).

On to breakfast and the day. It was minus 16 degrees celsius so back to very cold winter once again.  

Came back and corrected the earlier paragraph about George Pincombe. Eyes getting tired I guess and it now reads as it should. The earlier researchers placed George as a grandson of William (East Buckland, Filleigh).