Her will was written on 16 July 1647 and it was probated on 5 Oct. 1655.[2]
Sources
↑ 1.01.1
J L Vivian. The visitations of the county of Devon: Comprising the herald's visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, Exeter: For the author, by H. S. Eland, 1895, Dennis of Holcombe Burnell pedigree, p. 280, Hathi Trust
↑ 2.02.1
Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992. 7th Edition, Pp. 197-198.
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Dennys-18 and Dennis-6971 appear to represent the same person because: Self-evident duplicates. Dennys and Dennis are variant spellings of the same last name.
Dennis-2946 and Dennys-3 appear to represent the same person because: same birth and death dates and places, same name of husband (might need a merge). Currently set as sisters, with same mother. The father's first name needs verification.
The merge should go ahead. For the spelling of Dennis it is probably just a question of settling on one which is quite commonly found, and giving the others as variants. There will not be a single "right" spelling. This probably needs to be looked at in the context of the family as a whole in this period. The History of Parliament Online uses Denys for Philippa’s father Robert - the Dennis pedigree in the Devon Visitations standardises on Dennis for the family, and there may well be other variants in other contemporary and secondary sources.
And there are some 243 with Denys (one 'n'j as in the History of Parliament Online or de Nys, a lot of them non-English. I would be inclined to go along with the Devon Visitation and standardise on the modern spelling Dennis, but give Denys as a variant, and possibly Dennys as well.
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