Surnames
PENCOMBE, PINCOMBE, PINKHAM, PYNCOMBE
Background
I run the Guild of One Name Studies Pincombe surname study (http://www.one-name.org/cgi-bin/searchrequest.cgi). The earliest reference to the Pincombe surname is in 1485 at North Molton, Devon although the surname Pencombe occurs at Pencombe Manor, Herefordshire prior to this date (1300s and 1400s). The Visitation for Devon states that Pencombe came with Lord de la Zouch to the North Molton area in 1485 . Family members can be found all around the world but principally in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States. My Guild of One Name Studies email is: pincombe@one-name.org My webpage has information on my Pincombe ancestors:
Pincombe Family of Elizabeth Kipp (www.kipp-blake-families.ca/elizabethmain.htm#PINCOMBE).
Most days I blog about my research and often there are items on the Pincombe family - I have transcribed most of the extant wills of the Pincombe family in England. My blog:
http://www.blogger.com/home. Today I did a particularly interesting look at the frequency of the Pinkham and Pincombe surname on World Profiler:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.com/2011/10/north-molton-parish-registers-and.html. I am slowly extracting all the Pincombe/Pinkham data and may be able to help with your research. I have the research family trees produced by the earlier Pincombe family researchers at the Guild.