And it continues to be a research day and my appointment with the AI

I am almost one third of the way through the Psalms. It has been a wonderful time reading the Psalms of my youth, my adult hood and now my old age. The Psalms echo through the ages with their words of truth, of consolation, of God's love. Thank you God for another beautiful day on Your earth - what You have created is good and we must keep it so. 

Yesterday I ended up looking at once again at two documents created in the early 1600s dealing with a Ward: John Pincombe in South Molton. I did photograph both of the items and will now begin to read them. Along with that there is an item that concerns George Pyncombe and his wife Dorothie (at North Molton) but dealing with property in Dunster, Somerset. I do not actually want to order that document because I have no interest in property in Dunster although do know there was a William Pincombe there in this time period but do not know how he may relate with the North Molton/South Molton Pincombe family and wonder if it would actually tell me that. Perhaps I can ask someone at the Guild going into the Archives to look at it for me briefly. So my work cut out for me today as always. I reached George Pyncombe's record of will probate (destroyed in 1942) at North Molton in 1624. Is it possible that he was a son of William (son of John Pencombe (1486)) and that just came across my mind? William's first wife Elizabeth died in 1563 and her infant son in 1564. Their two daughters were still living it appears at this time. I believe that this is the William who married Margret Gregorye at North Molton 23 Nov 1564. George Pincombe could have been their son as a birth in 1565 is quite reasonable even though William was buried 25 Mar 1565 at North Molton.  

 A view of the graph that shows how much access my blog receives daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the wills that I have transcribed are very frequently accessed and there are several thousand wills on the site plus I used to do a writeup on the individual if I knew anything about them. I still have about 400 Blake wills to transcribe one of these days. So actually in a given day it appears 20,000 to 25,000 views apparently between 9 October and 15 October but that does include bots. I always say that I look at the comments but generally do not post them and only occasionally answer them. Generally I have about 60 to 80 hits per day on the daily blog but some posts do acquire quite a few on occasion. 

Summing up, George Pincombe, listed on Chart 1-2 as a son of  William Pincombe bc 1540 is married to Dorothy unknown (the marriages at North Molton are missing from 1570 to 1606) and involved in a legal suit at Dunster (1603-1625), Somerset where there was a William Pincombe living for a short time. I do not know who this William Pincombe is living in Somerset. But George and Dorothy have five children baptized at North Molton from 1592 to 1602  I am trying to resolve how they fit into the picture. William son of John Pencombe (1486) baptizes three children at North Molton 1543, 1547 and 1564 so is a possibility for being this William at Dunster which never occurred to me before and also the father of George (actually the only likely William as the William on Chart 1-2 (son of William Pincombe and Emotte Snow)) is shown as dying young in the mid 1560s whereas he actually married Temperance Pollard 23 Jan 1597 at Kings Nympton!). But I already mentioned that Chart 1-2 is inaccurate with regard to the Pencombe/Pyncombe families at North and South Molton. William the son of John Pencombe (1486) does die in 1565 but the potential of having another child namely George was certainly there from his marriage with Margret Gregorye and Margret married William Squire at North Molton three years later after the death of William (26 May 1567). I have puzzled over that Chart for awhile now. Initially I just looked at all the Charts because I was so new to the research of Pincombe and had not yet been to the Society of Genealogists where the information from Dr Richard Pinkham was deposited. But gradually I noted problems especially with Chart 1/2 as that was information, some of which had been told to me by my Uncle. Some of it he had written down from his father and uncle (this was fairly fresh in my mind as we visited with my uncle and aunt on our way back and forth to London from here as they lived in Toronto). My grandfather was very close to his Uncle Richard, and all of his first cousins.

The naming of the daughters and sons in George's family (five children) was interesting as Emott and Johane were selected and likely George was raised by William and Emotte (Snowe) Pincombe at East Buckland since his father was deceased and his mother remarried (the two daughters presumably were raised by William and Emotte since they were not Margret's children). That that occurred although I have no idea. Or at least he spent time with them. Johane - was a common name in England. The sons were surprisingly Philip, William and Henrye (Philip and Henrye are not usual names in the Pincombe family) but William makes sense as George's father was deceased before he was born. Perhaps Philip and Henrye (and Johane) were a nod to Dorothie's family. I did not yet find a marriage but it would likely have been around 1591 and those records are missing at North Molton having transcribed the registers up to the early 1700s from the beginning.  

So today my collaboration with the AI looking at what I have discovered the past two weeks of research. I need to prepare my notes for the meeting probably this afternoon some time. 

Solitaire puzzles time.  

Moving ahead as now the families of two of the sons, William and Thomas who both lived at North Molton in 1524-7 as shown on the Devon Lay Subsidy along with their father John Pencombe (1486), appear to be sorted in a way that fits the data. Thomas though I still am working on his children with William fairly sorted, Ales is sorted, John is sorted but Richard at Bideford and Chittlehampton still has a few question marks along with  his children Helen and Thomas. I still am not completely comfortable with John Pyncombe at South Molton and his family which at least included Christopher, Margaret, John and Marye. It is their children that I am trying to put together. Acquiring a document that I asked to have the number of pages yesterday at the Archives of the United Kingdom will I think help with that. It is very handy to be able to have these documents scanned and emailed to me across the ocean. Some of these documents I looked at when we visited Kew in 2010 and 2013. Since it involved an inheritance dispute I may be lucky with this document but it may well be in Latin and I am back to working on  my latin once again to polish it up having studied it for one year. I nip in and out but I need once again that constant daily work on it to bring up to an efficient level. But I feel the first generation, second generation is complete and the third still needs a little work. 

I suppose the question is will I correct the Charts 1-16 created by Dr. Richard Pinkham and Galen Pinkham. At this moment in time I am not sure to be honest. I did put them in the Newsletters and occasionally they appear in the blogs. I think it depends on how the two parts of this study develop over the next decade. Although I had initially thought I would be sort of winding down as a widow I now have just myself to be concerned with and so I can continue with my projects to fill the hours I would have spent with my husband and all  his traveling as he had a trip planned to New Jersey and another to Pennsylvania all places where he had met and discussed items with his cousins. New York was a common place to go and then there was Europe, Edward had a trip planned to Germany including into northeastern Germany where his Schultz and Niemann/Neumann families came to Canada from in 1849 for Niemann/Neumann and in 1867 for the Schultz. Both actually came from villages close together one off hand was Brohm and the other has slipped my mind. Then there was also the trip to The Netherlands all planned and a researcher prepared to go with us to the repository. We both did speak some German but our Dutch was non existent. Then his Huguenot in France to continue exploring (and fortunately we both read French very well and he spoke it sufficiently although mine is quite broken to put it mildly although I can get there eventually and would improve with more frequent usage). But COVID did get in the way unfortunately. 

So now to plan my review with the AI. 

 

 

 

 

Solved the mystery

 Remembering the 1200 deaths three years ago when Hamas attacked the kibbutz areas of Israel and the Music Festival where so many young people had come together to celebrate their love of music. God be ever with those murdered that day and with those who had to recover from the dreadful consequences of that act. 

Yesterday amazingly successful for a couple of items that have been on my mind for years.  A Margaret Gregorye married William Pyncombe the 26th Nov 1564 at North Molton. I have puzzled over this marriage because of the way it was recorded on Chart 1 of the original researchers in the Pincombe Pinkham study. The William Pincombe who actually married Margaret Gregorye was the son of John Pencombe and he had just buried all three of his children and his wife a year earlier and then he himself died about four months after this marriage. It was a mystery as the ages; the timing so many things just did not make sense. That corrects that glaring problem that was in the North Molton/South Molton Chart. It was purely by chance that I suddenly realized I likely had the burials of the father of William Pencombe interchanged with that of his infant son. Once fixed, it all fell into place. 

It was the son named William of William Pyncombe and Emott Snow that married Temperance Pollard and this William was a Coroner in Devon as listed on the Visitation not his grandson as shown on Chart1-2. But solving the Margaret Gregorye marriage and then the marriage of William Squire to Margaret Pyncombe was fortuitous because there isn't a Margaret Pyncombe in these families in this time period (1560s) at North Molton (but she would then have been a widow which works). There is a Margaret Pyncombe in the  early register at North Molton who married Philip Kingdon 15 Nov 1539 at North Molton and I suspect  she was the granddaughter of John Pencombe (arrived in 1486); daughter of his eldest son John. She would have been born in the early 1520s perhaps. There are few accurate dates of individuals in this time frame although on the Visitation William married to Temperance Pollard is 54 years of age in 1620 thus placing his birth in 1566. He was the second son of William and Emott Pincombe. In the will of Johanne Pencombe (mother of William married to Emott) she does not mention that William is married but does mention all other marriages of the six children she shared with Thomas Pencombe. One can perhaps assume that in 1563 (the year of her will) William did not yet have any children. It all fits together like a glove!

I completed the first 80 year search of Pencombe (including derivatives) from Find My Past. It was a very successful day and hopefully today equally promising as I continue to put together the third generation. I am in conversation with a member of the Pinkham family in the United States and an email between us revealed that Philip Pynkeham is his ancient relative - the father of the Richard Pinkham that came to the royal colony of now Maine in the 1600s. Who this Philip Pynkeham is is a mystery but not mine to solve other than putting it into my file system in case anyone asks me about him. He simply does not fit into the third generation of the Pencombe family of North Molton. He is at Tawstock on the 1543-45 Devon Lay Subsidy as an adult presumably. There remains the two other de Pencombe families that have appeared  in the records of Devon namely Roger de Pencombe at Bondleigh in the early 1300s and John de Pencomb' as an Assessor on the 1332 Devon Lay subsidy at Molland (he does not appear though in the tax list there). Are they related to this Philip Pynkeham? No ideas on that but I am not able to look at the very large Pinkham family in the United States in terms of publication; first of all I do not have that information at hand, it is too much work for me and I will stick with the smaller family of Pencombe which is my line of descent for the book publication and eventually Pyncombe and then Pincombe (although some members did use the Pinkham spelling) in Devon. John Pencombe of Northmolton is there in 1486 with John Lord Zouch who is attainted and has taken up residence with his cousin in North Molton (it was part of the la Zouche family holdings but gradually moved into a female line by 1486). 

I do hate to appear to be separating the two studies but at 81 I can manage the Pencombe in the book I have decided to write which I am familiar with but not the very large American Pinkham family which is in good hands already. I can see now that this is the moment when I truly do cut loose the two parts of the study in terms of writing my book but the study has been together for a long time and when I retire from the Guild of one-name Studies perhaps someone else will see it differently;  no ideas on that. It is good to just continue with my project of following down the lines of John Pencombe at North Molton. I now have a good second generation although still working on the likely years for each of the three sons. Although I will continue extracting for the entire study into my system files I will only use the Pincombe material related to North Molton in the book. I do still get requests for information from the Pinkham family in the United States but I tend to refer that to the individual who has taken a strong interest in that history as he is more knowledgeable than I am for the Pinkham family of the United States. I did invite Galen Pinkham to work with me maybe fifteen years ago but he was busy with  his own family material which I understand completely in that I have two books on the go. I am too busy now to take on such involvement as I am now writing up what I have learned for the benefit of family members. 

I need to do the Blake Newsletter and will move to that likely this week to complete that. I have quite a bit I can report on the Blake book as it moves forward as well. Mind a bit active and it is 3:00 a.m. I will work for a bit and then back to sleep. 

Next step, the North Molton branches appear to be sorted in the second generation, is looking at the Pencombe family in South Molton as John (eldest son of John Pencombe) is already there and well propertied with G10 on the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy and his son Christopher at G5 (presumably a very young child). The other son John does not appear in the tax records until the 1543-45 Devon Lay Subsidy. On Chart 1-2 John, son of John Pencombe, is not given a year of birth but his son John is listed as born in 1501 (Christopher does not have a year of birth listed). I would propose that the father of Christopher and John was likely born in this 1501 time period rather than his son and the dating in this Chart 1-2 is out by a generation. 

Looking at Chart 1-2 prepared by the earlier researchers one can see large changes in the family of Thomas already (he was not born in 1481 as he would have been 43 then on the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy where he is listed as W1 just under John Pencombe (his father) and that is very unlikely (W meaning wages). In 1543 he is at East Buckland and listed as 9 (which is the level of taxes). William Pyncombe (listed as born in 1506 on Chart 1-2 (he left his will dated 1602 so another unlikely happening) was the son of Thomas Pencombe as listed on Chart 1-2. This chart does not include William's siblings Richard, John, Alice or the unnamed youngest sister. 

William married to Emotte Snowe is part of the fourth generation and he was likely born in the early 1530s or late 1520s. I always had a problem with that section of the chart. William (married to Emotte Snowe) left his will dated in 1602 where he lists his children as Johane, John, William, Symon, Richard, Thomas, Lewis, Peter and Katherin. Thomas (father of this William) was still earning wages in 1524-7 so late teens and then by 1543-45 at East Buckland on the Devon Lay Subsidy listed as 9 on the tax roll for value. The marriage with Emotte Snowe is not in the registers thus far but it is a while since I did a thorough search and I continue pulling that data, if I missed any earlier, today. Chart 1-2 lists William and Emotte's children as John, William, Agnes, Richard, Mary, and Ann which does not fit the will of William. Interestingly an Ann Pincombe married a Christopher Rashleigh (a very well known upper class Devon family) and has been listed as part of William and Emotte's family. The blog that I published which was a reprint has this Ann as part of the South Molton Pincombe family (which is principally John rather than Thomas although William Pincombe (son of William and Emott Pincombe) married to Temperance Pollard did live in South Molton for a period of time as Coroner). 

I consider sometimes recreating these charts but they are a part of history; how people saw these things and how they explained them and so we must just move on making our additions based on the available information and the book will contain my thoughts and certainly the material that the AI brings to the table as well in terms of looking at it with the knowledge of all available history at the AI's fingertips. That was how I treated James Sander's book on the Siderfin family. It remains an important book in the history of the Siderfin family mine simply attempted to add in more information but I must fix the index and will do that and add in my new material unless someone beats me to it!

Instead I will produce a generational chart that will, hopefully, capture all the male lines coming down and the female lines for one generation to show the surnames that married into the Pincombe family of North Molton (including my line!).  

Solitaire puzzles are next and it is basement cleaning day.  

Will of Prudence Buller, Spinster, St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex - The National Archives PROB 11/659/289, probated 26 Jun 1733

Possibly this is Prudence Buller the daughter of Edward and Mary Buller baptized 5 Aug 1691 at St Andrew Holborn, London (C01051-3 Family Search). Prudence appears to be the only child of this couple baptized at St Andrew Holborn and no other likely candidates elsewhere. Interestingly there was a Richard Buller paying Hearth Tax at Saint Andrew Holborne in 1666. Some later Buller families lived at St Andrew Holborn. But definitely this line appears to have daughtered out with Prudence.

I do find it rather interesting that in the 1700s there is another Buller family in St Andrew Holborn which is descendant of the Cornwall Buller family - coincidence or other. I do not know at the moment.

However, this will definitely brings the Edward Buller line to an end and if his father was Richard I should pursue this line at some point. Find my Past has the following records Richard Buller living in South Olave Hart Street and married to Helen Morris 17 Jan 1659. He was a merchant and they have a son John baptized 6 Nov 1660. A further comment in Boyd's Inhabitants of London 17 Dec 1670 Vice General Marriage Licence R.B. merchant widowed at 33 married to Anne Watson of Maddam Scott Kent spinster of 26 years of age. This gives me a date of birth for Richard of 1637.

There is also a record for John Buller from 1679 at St Stephen Walbrook and he was an innkeeper with children John baptized 11 Jan 1680 and William baptized 4 Nov 1683.

Also a Robert Buller married to an Ellen King of St John Walbrook 25 Aug 1625 at All Hallows Honey Lane. He was a merchant taylor in 1625 of St John Walbrook but also it says he was of St Michael Pat Royal. His children Daniel baptized 18 Nov 1627, Michael baptized 8 March 1628 and Thomas baptized 26 Dec 1633.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 26 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/659/289
Testator: Prudence Buller, Spinster
Place: St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex, England
Date of document:  31 May 1732, probated 26 Jun 1733
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 18th century English, legible copy

[Margin]: Prudence
[Margin]: Buller

1    In the Name of God Amen
2    I Prudence Buller of the parish of St Andrew Holborn in the
3    County of Midd[lese]x Spinster being sick and weak in Body, tho of sound
4    and disposing mind and memory doe make this my last will and
5    Testament in manner and form following that is to say Whereas I
6    am possessed oft interested in and Intitled unto a certain Messuage or
7    Tenement Scituate and being in Leather Lane in Holborne in the said
8    County of Midd[lese]x held by Lease from the R[igh]t Hon[oura]ble the Lord Brooke
9    for a certain Term of years yet to come and unexpired and and under a
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10    yearly Ground rent therein reserved and payable of which said
11    Messuage or Tenement I have by Indenture dated the one and
12    Twentieth day of February last past granted a Lease to Ralph
13    Squire for the Term of Twenty Six years in case he should so long live
14    at and under the yearly Rent of a pepper corn with proper Covenants
15    for his paying and satisfying the Ground Rent And whereas my mind
16    and intention is that John Sweetapple son of John Sweetapple of
17    Tower Street London Tabcconist shall have hold possess and enjoy
18    the said Messuage or Tenement and premisses and the rent thereof
19    from and after the decease of the said Ralph Squire for and
20    during the rest residue and remainder of the Term of years that
21    Shall be to come and unexpired at the death of the said Ralph
22    Squire for that purpose I do hereby give and bequeath the aforesaid
23    Messuage and Tenement together with the original Lease of the same
24    and all other the premisses held by virtue or means thereof unto
25    the said John Sweetapple of Tower Street London Tabacconist
26    his Executors and Administrators for and during the rest residue
27    and Remainder of the Term of years that shall be in the said
28    original Lease remaining unexpired at the time of the death of the
29    said Ralph Squire In Trust Nevertheless to and for the sole benefit
30    and Advantage of his son John Sweetapple To have and To hold
31    the same for the use of his said Son and to render to him a just
32    and true account of the rents and profits thereof and to assigne
33    over the same premisses together with the aforesaid Original Lease
34    thereof when he shall have attained the age of one and Twenty
35    years And whereas I have above by this my last Will and
36    Testament given all m y Estate right Title Interest benefit and
37    Term of years in the said Lease granted from the Lord Brooke
38    unto the said John Sweetapple In Trust for his son as aforesaid
39    and as for and concerning the rest and residue of my Estate Effects
40    and Substance whether reall or personal that I may be possessed
41    off or Interested or intitled unto at the time of my death I hereby
42    give devise and bequeath the same to Jane Elizabeth and Mary
43    Sweetapple the Three daughter of the said John Sweetapple
44    of Tower Street Tobacconist they the said Jane Elizabeth and Mary
45    To have hold and enjoy the same Share and Share alike and having
46    a just remembrance of all the faithfull Services and friendy Intentions
47    of the said John Sweetapple towards me I doe hereby nominate
48    ordain constitute appoint the said John Sweetapple sen? The whole
49    and Sole Executor of this my will hereby revoking and making
50    void all former or other wills Testaments or deeds of Gift by me
51    at any time theretofore made and do declare this and no other to
52    be my last Will and Testament and I do hereby give unto my said
53    Executor the sume of Twenty Shillings to buy him a Ring In Witness
54    whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Thirty first day
55    of May in the Fifth year of the Reign of his Majesty King George
56    the Second and in the year of our Lord 1732 Prudenc Buller
57    Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Testatrix prudence
58    Buller as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who
59    in her presence and at her request have signed our names as witnesses
60    John Tompkins in Leather Lane Tho: Hodson in Wood Street attorney
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61    This Will was proved at London before the Worshipfull
62    William Branstone Doctor of Laws and Surrogate to the Right
63    Worshipfull John Bettesworth also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper
64    or Commissary of our prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
65    constituted the Twenty Sixth day of June in the year of our Lord
66    One Thousand Seven hundred and thirty three by the solemn declaration
67    or affirmation of John Sweetapple the sole Executor named in the said
68    will To whom Administration was granted of the Goods chattels and
69    Credits of the said deceased having first made the solemn and Sincere
70    declaration or affirmation according to the act of parliament duly to
71    Administer

Pincombe family at North Molton up to 1660

The Pincombe entries at North Molton continue to be a strong interest of mine for my one name study. By the end of 1660 there are 3365 baptisms, 563 marriages, 1669 burials and 162 banns in total with Pincombe being quite a small part of that total. Using the wills of Johane, William, Thomas and Bartholomew Pincombe the families can be put together and I hypothesize the following from the records.

Baptisms:

Pyncombe Agnes daughter Pyncombe William 1543 June 6
Pyncombe Mary daughter Pyncombe William 1547 Dec 8
Pyncombe Marye daughter Pymcombe John 1555 July 8
Pyncombe Marye daughter Pyncombe John 1555 Feb 3
Pyncombe Johane daughter Pyncombe John 1561 Apr 5
Pyncombe Marye daughter Pyncombe John 1563 Jan 18
Pyncombe Peternell daughter Pyncombe John 1574 Jun 29 of Flitton
Pyncombe Phillip son Pyncombe George 1592 May 28
Pyncombe Emott daughter Pyncombe George Dorothie 1594 Dec 9
Pyncombe William son Pyncombe George Dorothie 1597 Apr 15
Pyncombe Johane daughter Pyncombe George Dorothie 1599 Nov 9
Pincombe Henrye son Pincombe George  Dorothie 1602 Dec 19
Pincombe Thomas son Pincombe Thomas   1616 Mar 30
Pincombe William son Pincombe Thomas  Joan 1639 Mar 31
Pincombe Thomas son Pincombe Thomas  Joan 1641 Apr 14
Pincombe Richarde son Pincome Thomas  Joan 1644 Nov 10
Pincombe John son Pincome Thomas  Joan 1644 Nov 10
Pincombe Frances daughter Pincome Bartholomew  Frances 1647 Dec 12
Pincombe Robart son Pincombe Thomas  Joan 1648 Jan 21
Pincombe Richorde daughter Pincombe Bartholomew  Joan 1649 Feb 19
Pincombe John son Pincombe Bartholomew  Joane 1654 Nov 27

Marriages:

Pyncombe John            Hodge Emet 1560 Jul 1
Pyncombe William      Gregorye Margret 1564 Nov 26
Pincombe Thomas       Smith Joan 1635 Apr 28
[King]don Phillip         Pincumbe Margret 1539 Nov 15
Locke William            Pyncombe Ales 1561 Nov 29
Squire William           Pyncombe Margerett 1567 May 26
Squire George            Pyncombe Mary 1567 Jul 20

Burials:

Pyncombe Marye daughter Pyncombe John   1555 Dec 7
Pyncombe Marye daughter Pyncombe John   1563 Feb 3
Pyncombe Elizabeth wife Pyncombe William   1563 Feb 18
Pyncombe William      1564 Sep 13
Pyncombe William      1565 Mar 25
Pincombe George      1610 Jan 19
Pincombe Dorothie widow     1610 Feb 2
Pincombe William son Pincombe Thomas  Katherine 1624 Dec 7
Pincomb Joan      1633 Jan 15
Pincombe Katherine wife Pincombe Thomas   1636 Feb 5
Pincombe Elizabeth      1645 Oct 13
Pincomb William      1637 Jan 29
Pyncombe Thomas      1651 Dec 8
Pincombe Bartholomew      1656 Dec 24
Pincombe Richorde daughter Pincombe Bartholomew  Joan 1657 May 21
Pincombe Frances daughter Pincombe Bartholomew (deceased)  Joane 1657 May 27

Placed into families:

William Pincombe (circa 1520 - 1564/1565)

Pyncombe Agnes daughter Pyncombe William 1543 June 6
Pyncombe Mary daughter Pyncombe William 1547 Dec 8
Pyncombe Elizabeth wife Pyncombe William 1563 Feb 18
Pyncombe William 1564 Sep 13
Pyncombe William Gregorye Margret 1564 Nov 26
Pyncombe William 1565 Mar 25
Squire William Pyncombe Margerett 1567 May 26
Squire George Pyncombe Mary 1567 Jul 20


John Pincombe (circa 1530 - still alive in 1574)

Pyncombe Marye daughter Pymcombe John 1555 July 8
Pyncombe Marye daughter Pyncombe John 1555 Dec 7
Pyncombe Marye daughter Pyncombe John 1555 Feb 3
Pyncombe John Hodge Emet 1560 Jul 1
Pyncombe Johane daughter Pyncombe John 1561 Apr 5
Pyncombe Marye daughter Pyncombe John 1563 Jan 18
Pyncombe Marye daughter Pyncombe John 1563 Feb 3
Pyncombe Peternell daughter Pyncombe John 1574 Jun 29 of Flitton

George Pincombe (circa 1560s - 1610)

Pyncombe Phillip son Pyncombe George 1592 May 28
Pyncombe Emott daughter Pyncombe George Dorothie 1594 Dec 9
Pyncombe William son Pyncombe George Dorothie 1597 Apr 15
Pyncombe Johane daughter Pyncombe George Dorothie 1599 Nov 9
Pincombe Henrye son Pincombe George Dorothie 1602 Dec 19
Pincombe George 1610 Jan 19
Pincombe Dorothie widow 1610 Feb 2

Thomas Pincombe (circa 1572 - 1653)

Pincombe Thomas son Pincombe Thomas 1616 Mar 30
Pincombe William son Pincombe Thomas Katherine 1624 Dec 7
Pincombe Katherine wife Pincombe Thomas 1636 Feb 5
Pyncombe Thomas 1651 Dec 8


Pincombe Thomas married  Smith Joan 1635 Apr 28
Pincombe William son Pincombe Thomas Joan 1639 Mar 31
Pincombe Thomas son Pincombe Thomas Joan 1641 Apr 14
Pincombe Richarde son Pincome Thomas Joan 1644 Nov 10
Pincombe John son Pincome Thomas Joan 1644 Nov 10
Pincombe Robart son Pincombe Thomas Joan 1648 Jan 21


Pincombe Frances daughter Pincome Bartholomew Frances 1647 Dec 12
Pincombe Richorde daughter Pincombe Bartholomew Joan 1649 Feb 19
Pincombe John son Pincombe Bartholomew Joane 1654 Nov 27
Pincombe Bartholomew 1656 Dec 24
Pincombe Richorde daughter Pincombe Bartholomew Joan 1657 May 21
Pincombe Frances daughter Pincombe Bartholomew (deceased) Joane 1657 May 27

The Pincombe family at North Molton are not all descendant of the marriage of William Pincombe and Emotte Snow since their marriage probably occurred in the early 1560s. His mother Johane Pencombe (widow) left a will in 1563 whilst living at East Buckland where William also lived after this time naming her children as William, John Alice, Richard and another daughter. The daughters were married to John Lock (Alice) and John Jesse (unnamed daughter). The parish register has William Lock as the husband of Alice Pencombe but the will has John. William is either not yet married or does not have any children in 1563 when the will is written but his brother John has married Emet Hodge and their eldest daughter Johane is named in the will. Richard is also not married. This is the Richard though who died at Chittlehampton and is he the ancestor of Richard Pincombe who married Jane Bond at Chittlehampton in 1652 - I have a broken line there which would be interesting to complete - land records perhaps?

George Pincombe is not a descendant of the William Pincombe and Emotte Snow marriage (at least he is not named in William's will). He is also not named in the will of Johane Pencombe which encourages me to place him in the family of the unnamed brother in the Visitation and we have a William buried in 1564 at North Molton who may have been married to Elizabeth (or the son) and their children Agnes, Mary and a William (father or son? who was buried in 1565). The Parish Register at North Molton definitely adds good additional information to the Pincombe family listed in the Visitation.


[King]don Phillip Pincumbe Margret 1539 Nov 15
This is the only unrevealed marriage and is likely a sister to the brothers listed on the Visitation as she is in their age range. The two baptisms Johane Kingdon baptized 6 Oct 1545 at North Molton (and married to William Hobb 28 Jan 1564 at North Molton) and Emote baptized 26 May 1549 at North Molton are likely their children. Since this is a one name study I do not usually follow the daughters down past the one generation (i.e. their children unless there was a non paternal event).

The records would appear to indicate that of the three brothers in the visitation the eldest John went to South Molton (none of his children appear at North Molton Parish Records), Thomas was known to be at East Buckland and Filleigh and the unnamed son was perhaps the William found in the records at North Molton. Solving the mystery of which William married Margaret Gregorye (father or son) would also be helpful but not absolutely necessary. Since the marriage of William and Margaret Gregorye was at North Molton one might think it was her home parish but not necessarily. Finding a George Pincombe baptized in 1564-1565 is a good next step or finding a will in the Squire family which I have not yet pursued might reveal more details on George other than what is in the Parish Register.

The Thomas Pincombe family certainly fits well into the William Pincombe and Emotte Snow family because they have a son Thomas the right age to be marrying a Katherine (unknown) who had three children listed in the will of Thomas buried in 1653 at North Molton (Bartholomew, Thomas and Grace). Grace is likely married to Richard Haniford (the will makes deciphering of her married name difficult) and they had three children. The Filleigh and East Buckland records in the 1500s would probably have filled in the missing items but one must work with what one has!