Person:Gilbert Holcombe (2)

BIOGRAPHY: Gilbert Holcombe1 (M) b. 1559, d. 1624 http://www.holcombegenealogy.com/data/p32.htm#i1567 Holcombe Court at Holcombe Rogus Gilbert Holcombe was born in 1559. He was the son of Thomas Holcombe and Margaret Tretford. Gilbert Holcombe died in 1624. His estate was probated on 18 August 1624. It has not been conclusively established that Gilbert was the parent of Thomas. In an effort to continue the research into Thomas' parents, researchers like Deanna Holcomb Bowman are going back further than Gilbert and Ann to see if Thomas of Simsbury is descended from a collateral line. This attempt to organize English records is based on a Lineage Chart in Vivian's The Visitations of the County of Devon, pg 474, 1887. This chart of the Holcombe's of Hull begins with John and Isabel Down Holcombe and continues for six generations to Gilbert, Christopher, and Josias Holcomb. The chart can be continued by references to the Lineage Chart compiled by Harry, born 1857, and Walter, born in 1850, Holcomb sons of Phillip George and Elizabeth Jones Holcombe. The later chart is found in England and one of the last lines on the chart has a 1913 birth and 1932 marriage, thus compiled after Seaver and before McPherson. The Harry and Walter chart uses the exact format of the Vivian chart so it is essentially just an extension of Vivian. Using secondary sources of English births, marriages and wills and some primary records allows the extension of both references. Since the records include parishes, researchers can prove or disprove them once they are organized. Weir states on page 8 "A very complete pedigree of the Holcombes of Devonshire, England starting from John Holcombe, Knight of the XI century is said to exist. Maybe she is referring to the Walter and Harry Holcomb Chart found in the church at Dorchester-on-The-Thames, England. Vivian's chart ends with the listing of the three brothers, Gilbert, Christopher, and Josias. Gilbert's marriage to Ann, daughter of Peter of Landrake, cl. Cornwall is given and the fact that this 1623 will, was proven in August of 1624 leaving his brother-in-law Richard Bonithon as his legatte. The administration was granted in February 1655/56 to John Bonython, the nephew and next of kin, because Richard Bonython, the executor, was then deceased. The chart does note that Christopher is said to be the ancestor of the Holcombes of Pembrokeshire in Wales. Gilbert and Ann had no children on the chart. Bowman and McCracken both agree that there were no children. Child of Gilbert Holcombe: Thomas Holcombe + (c 1601 - 01 Oct 1657)

SOURCE: - Deanna Holcomb Bowman Thomas Holcomb and other Simsbury, Connecticut Settlers, Vol. I:Pgs. 1-5; Vol. II:Pg. 167/Item 112111.. [Deanna Holcomb Bowman, Thomas Holcomb and other Simsbury, Connecticut Settlers, 2 vols, 2nd Edition.. (Colorado Springs, CO, 1988, 1996).]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Http://www.holcombegenealogy.com/data/p32.htm.
2.   Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick). 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)
   Part 2, page 474.

   Gilbert Holcombe of Hull in Devon, nuncupative will 14 Oct. 1623, proved 18 Aug 1624
   
   implied to be the first son