Surname Saturday ~ BRIMBLECOMB of Marblehead, Massachusetts

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 9^th 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 10^th 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:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-homan-of-marblehead.html  

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]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HOMAN of Marblehead

Edward Homan Probate 1713, naming his wife as "Richard"

Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)  https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13767/13732-co5/30230114

HOMAN / HOLMAN / HOLEMAN / HOLMEN / HOLDMAN / HOOMAN / HAMMON / HOEMAN

Two brothers, Gabriel and Edward Homan, settled in Marblehead, Massachusetts in the mid 1600s.  Edward Homan (about 1646 – 1713) is my 9^th great grandfather.  He was one of the first fourteen householders in Marblehead before 1660.  He married about 1668 to Richard Brimblecomb, the DAUGHTER of John and Tabitha Brimblecomb of Marblehead.  Her name Richard can be seen in his last will and testament written in 1713.  They had five children born in Marblehead.  The Edward Homan house is still standing in Marblehead at 29 – 31 Circle Street, and is dated about 1670, and the right side of the house was built about 1802 or 1803.

Edward Homan, Jr. (1668 – 1714), my 8^th great grandfather, died a year  after his father in Marblehead.  He married Elizabeth Gould in 1692 in Marblehead, and they had six children.  Edward, Jr. was called “a planter” and “a cooper”, and he bought land from Christopher Lattamore in 1680 [Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 89].

Peter Homan (b. 1699) was my 7^th great grandfather.  He married in 1723 to Mary Hoyle, daughter of Samuel Hoyle and Mary Fortune of Marblehead.  They had seven children.  Their eldest, William Homan (b. 1725), my 6^th great grandfather, married about 1758 to Elizabeth and had a son named Thomas (about 1758 – 1832), my 5^th great grandfather.  Thomas Homan’s wife, Tabitha Glover, was the niece of Brigadier General John Glover (1732 – 1797) of Revolutionary War fame.   Thomas served in the American Revolutionary War, too, under Capt. Putnam as a private in Massachusetts in 1776 for one year.  He applied for a pension in 1818.

Betsey Jillings Homan (1792 – 1874), my 4^th great grandmother, was the last in this line of HOMANs.  She married Jabez Treadwell of Ipswich, and they resided in Salem, where their seven children were born. 

For more about the HOMAN family:

The Holmans in America, by David Emory Holman, 1909, Volume 1

The Edward Homan House, MACRIS (Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System)  http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=MAR.1228 accessed September 7, 2017

My HOLMAN genealogy:

Generation 1:  Edward Homan, born about 1646, died December 1713 in Marblehead; married about 1668 to Richard Brimblecomb, daughter of John Brimblecomb and Tabitha Unknown.  She was born about 1646 probably in Modbury, Devonshire, England, and died December 1719 in Marblehead, Massachusetts.  They had five children.

Generation 2:   Edward Homan born about 1668 in Marblehead, died July 1714 in Marblehead; married on 27 October 1692 in Marblehead to Elizabeth Gould, daughter of Alexander Gould and Margaret Brown.  She was born about 1667 and died after 26 December 1719.  Six children.

Generation 3:   Peter Homan was born 26 June 1699 in Marblehead; married on 12 December 1723 in Marblehead to Mary Hoyle, daughter of Samuel Hoyle and Mary Fortune.  She was baptized on 21 March 1702/3 in Marblehead.  They had seven children.

Generation 4:  William Homan, baptized 25 July 1725 in Marblehead; married to Elizabeth Unknown; at least one child.

Generation 5:  Thomas Homan, born about 1758 and died 20 January 1832 in Marblehead; married on 28 November 1782 in Marblehead to Tabitha Glover, daughter of Daniel Glover and Hannah Jillings.  She was baptized on 10 February 1765 and died 13 March 1837 in Marblehead.  They had seven children.

Generation 6:  Betsey Jilling Homan, baptized on 14 October 1792 in Marblehead, died 6 April 1874 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 17 November 1811 in Marblehead to Jabez Treadwell, son of Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey.  He was born 17 October 1788 in Ipswich, and died 4 November 1840 in Salem.  Seven children.

Generation 7:   Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 10: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HOMAN of Marblehead”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 14, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-homan-of-marblehead.html: accessed [access date]).