Thomas Holcombe (1536 - 1579)

Born 1536 in Hole House, Branscombe, Devon, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Jane (Trethurffe) Holcombe — married 20 Jun 1559 in Ashton, Devon, England

Descendants

Died 1579 at about age 43 in Ashton, Cornwall, England

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Biography

Name

Thomas [H] Holcomb

Birth

Abt. 1536 Branscombe, Devonshire

Abt. 1536 Hole, Devon, England

Marriage

Thomas married Margaret Trethurfe, daughter of Reynold Trethurfe of Cornwall, 20 June 1559 at Ashton, Devon ^[1].

Death

Abt. 1579 Ashton, Cornwall, England

Thomas is described as "gentleman, deceased" in the will of his father in 1585 ^[2] .

Sources

1. ↑ Ashton Parish Register, Visitations of the County of Devon in 1620
2. ↑ Space:Will_of_Ellis_Holcombe_-_1585

• McCracken, George E., The Parents of Thomas Holcombe, The American Genealogist (1950) Vol. 26, Page 109.
  • "As the use of the middle initials was unknown in the seventeenth and earlier centuries, the "H" must be explained as a mark misread by someone as a middle initial."

• CS 71.H725, as cited by Cora M. Collyer. Letter from Alexander T. Holcombe of Australia to Percy Beak of Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England. 1992

• The Holcombes, Nation Builders, by McPherson, 1947 (found by Cora M.C.Taber at Library of Congress - CS71.H725).

• Holcombe pedigree at the Abbey Church of Dorchester which formerly hung behind the sarcophagus of Sir John in the Lady Chapel.

• Alexander T. Holcombe of Queensland, Australia (who is, an he lives still, current holder of Sir John's signet ring).

• Visitation of Devon Page 345: Holcome (Supp)