BRIMBLECOMB / BRIMBLECOME / BRIMBELCOMB / BRIMBLETON etc.
Back on October 14
th I posted a
“Surname Saturday”story about the HOMAN family, and mentioned that the immigrant Edward Homan had
a wife named Richard. I thought this was
unusual, and I also thought that this might be a good clue to her
identity. Well, I did find out more
about the BRIMBLECOMB family with records back in England!
Looking at records on Family Search from Modbury,
Devonshire, England, I was able to find that there was a John Brimblecomb with
a wife named Richard (!!) who had two children baptized in Modbury – 1.) Richard,
a daughter, baptized on 3 August 1621, and 2.)John Brimblecomb, Jr. baptized on
2 March 1623. This Richard, jr. would be
the aunt of Richard Brimblecom (1646 – 1719) my 9th great
grandmother who married Edward Homan of Marblehead, Massachusetts.
The records from Modbury also show that Richard, jr. married
Christopher Chrispin on 24 September 1658 in Modbury and had a daughter named
Margaret. But the Modbury records also
show that Richard, jr. had an illegitimate daughter named Elizabeth on 25
August 1643 in Modbury. She was labeled a “bastard” in the records. All these records naming women named “Richard”,
as well as a man named John Brimblecomb with a wife named Tabitha seemed to me
to be proof of the same family as my Richard Brimblecomb who married Edward
Holman.
Essex County Probate, Volume 3, page 283 shows a 1678 will
for John “Brimbellcom” with a wife Tabitha, and names a son Philip and
daughters Mary Tucker and Richard Holmon.
His estate was valued at 76 pounds and 6 shillings. He left his house to Philip.
The Modbury records show that John Brimblecomb, jr. and wife
Tabitha, had four children baptized there:
1. Mary, daughter, 16 July 1646
2. Mary, daughter, 16 June 1647
3. John, son, 10 August 1649
4. Philip, son, 28 October 1651
There was no record found of a daughter named Richard being
baptized in Modbury. But we can assume
she was born to this family perhaps before the first Mary. Richard married Edward Homan, and Mary
married Andrew Tucker. Philip
Brimblecomb married an unknown wife around 1670, and married second to Sarah
Fluent on 8 February 1680.
John Brimblecomb, the immigrant, my 10th great
grandfather, was a fisherman who lived in Marblehead from about 1661, when he
bought a house from John Legg, to 1678, when he died. He appears to be the same John Brimblecomb
who was born and baptized in Modbury, Devonshire, England.
“The Last Will and
Testament of John Brimbellcom Being in his perfecte memory the 11th maye 1678
Imprmis That first I Bequeue my Body to the Dust and my spiritte To god that
gaue it as for my Estat firist I order That after the Charge of my fenerall (is
paide) that all my Deptes Bee fully satisfied By my Excetors: secondly my will
is that what Estate is Lefte After my Deptes is paide that Tabitha my wife
shall fully and wholly Inioye it for the Terme of Her Naturall Life Thirdly my
will is That after The death of my sd: wife That my soon Phillipe Brimbelcom
and his Children after Him shall Inioye the full and whole Estat that shee
shall Leave to saye my wife what is Leafte of what I Leave her :fourthly my
will is That my Excecetors out of what Estat I Leave shall pave to my too
Daughters Richard Holman and mary Tucker as a Legaci Twenty shilings a peece.
fiftly my will is that my wife Tabitha and my soonn Philipe bee jointe
Excecetrex and Exceceter of my whole Estate In Being By them To bee managed and
Emproued as above further my will is Th.at my Trusty frinds John Codner and
John Leg Bee my overseeres of my Excetors for the Emprouement of The Estate
according to this my will and Testament my will further is that if my sd: sun
Die without Issue that what is Lefte of my Estate after the death of my sd:
wife and sonne and his Child or what Childrin he maye have that it shall bee
Equally divided Betwext my too Daughters Richard and mary."
John (his I B mark)
Brimbellcom.
Witness: John (his T C
mark) Codner, John Legg.
Proved in Salem court
29: 9: 1678 by the witnesses.
Inventory of the
estate taken Nov. 12, ,1678, by William Nick and Thaddeus Riddan : one halfe of
a shallop & connue & what else belongs to ye half & boat, 15li.;
one dweling house, out house and land with ye priviledge belonging to it,
40li.; one halfe of a servants time, 5li.; one bed filled with silke grasse
with Rugg, Blankets, bedsteed & 2 pr. ould sheetes, 4li.; 3 Chests ould
ones & ould barrells, 8s.; one muskett, one houldbert, one Cutles, one
swoard & Belt, 2li.; 4 potts & a small Kittle, lli. 10s.; two pair pott
hangers, two pair pott hooks, one fire shoovell & tonges, gridiron,
&c., 10s.; pewter dishes, cupes & warming pann, 15s.; Table & forme
& a spitt, 1 Os. ; one frying pan &. two ould Axes, 5s. ; three ould
Chaires, two ,pailes, washing tubs, wooden Trays & a dresser, 6s.; wearin~
appa1·rell in all, 3li.; one spining wheele, 2s.; several lean swine, halfe a
cow & Calfe, 3s. ; total, 7 6li. 6s. Signed by Thaddeus Riddan and
Christopher Necke. Attested in Salem court 29: 9: 1678 by Tabitha Brimbelcom,
one of the executors.
Some Brimblecomb resources:
There is a Brimblecomb genealogy in The Essex Antiquarian, Volume 12, pages 34 – 38.
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database,
FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7SH-1QD : 30 December
2014, John Bremblecombe in entry for Richard Bremblecombe, 03 Aug 1621); citing
MODBURY,DEVON,ENGLAND, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society
of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 916,861.
My Surname Saturday post on HOMAN:
My BRIMBLECOMB genealogy:
Generation 1: John
Brimblecomb, born about 1595 probably in Modbury, Devonshire, England, and died
in March 1658 in Modbury, married Richard UNKNOWN. Two known children.
Generation 2: John
Brimblecomb, baptized on 2 March 1623 in Modbury, Devonshire, and died between
11 May and 29 November 1678 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married to Tabitha Unknown.
Five children baptized in Modbury.
Generation 3: Richard
Brimblecomb, born in 1646 in Modbury, died December 1719 in Marblehead; married
about 1668 to Edward Homan. He was born
about 1646 and died December 1713 in Marblehead. Five children born in Marblehead.
Generation 4: Edward
Homan m. Elizabeth Gould
Generation 5: Peter
Homan m. Mary Hoyle
Generation 6: William
Homan m. Elizabeth Unknown
Generation 7: Thomas
Homan m. Tabitha Glover
Generation 8: Betsey
Jillings Homan m. Jabez Treadwell
Generation 9: Eliza
Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings
Generation 10: Abijah
Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis
Generation 11: Arthur
Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil
Generation 12: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer
Allen (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BRIMBLECOMB of
Marblehead, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 28, 2017, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-brimblecomb-of.html: accessed [access date]).
