Ancestral Trails 2016 » WILLIAM DUNCOMBE (1480-1576)
Personal data WILLIAM DUNCOMBE
Source 1- He was born in the year 1480 in Great Barley End Farm, Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire.
Attention: Was older than 65 years (76) when child (Clement DUNCOMBE) was born (??-??-1556). Attention: Was older than 65 years (66) when child (William DUNCOMBE) was born (??-??-1546). - (Alternative Birthplace) in Of Great or Much Brickhill, Buckinghamshire.
- He died on October 26, 1576 in Ivinghoe Aston, Buckinghamshire, he was 96 years old.
- He is buried October 1576 in St Mary the Virgin, Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire.Source 2
- A child of THOMAS DUNCOMBE and JOAN LANGSTON
Household of WILLIAM DUNCOMBE
(1) He is married to Mary REYNES.
They got married in the year 1517, he was 37 years old.
Child(ren):
- Mary DUNCOMBE ± 1539-????
(2) He is married to ALICE WHITTON.
They got married in the year 1535, he was 55 years old.
Child(ren):
- Giles DUNCOMBE ± 1554-????
- Edward DUNCOMBE ± 1549-????
- Anne DUNCOMBE ± 1547-????
Notes about WILLIAM DUNCOMBE
1550 Purchased the manor of Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire from Sir George Somerset.
1576 gave a gift of land to the parish church of Aston Ivinghoe
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp379-387#h3-0003
BARLEY END (Berle, xiii cent.) is first mentioned in 1291, when the gift of the Earl of Cornwall's land in this 'hamlet' to Ashridge College was confirmed. In 1531 John Duncombe described himself in his will as 'of Barley Ende.' An account of the parish in the early part of the 18th century says that Barley End House was the seat of William Duncombe, whose family had held it for generations.
William Duncombe died 26 October 1576. Buried at Ivinghoe. Son of Thomas Duncombe of Barleyend. Ivinghoe d1531 and his wife, Joan. William married Mary Reynes daughter of Richard Reynes. Children listed John died 1594 aged 90, Thomas, Roger, Edward buried at Ivinghoe 1566 and Elizabeth married William Draynes. No other wife mentioned.
Second wife, Alice Whitton, mother of William.
Other children with Alice, Edwarde, Edmonde, John, Gyles, Clement, Anne married Richard Saunders of Potesgrave, Susan married George Selyoke of Co. Darby Esq.
Sources
↑ Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire: Duncombe
↑ Visitation of Bedfordshire Page 101: Duncombe
↑ Visitation of Buckinghamshire, in 1566: Duncombe of Much Brickhill
See also
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/ancestral-trails-2016/I49476.php
http://trees.ancestry.com.au/tree/30689510/person/122937795
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reynes-2
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Trees / Ancestry.co.uk
- Monumental Inscription
A brass to William Duncombe, who died in 1576, and Mary and Alice, his wives, shows a small figure of the man and an indent for the figure of a wife on either side, below the first of which is a group of three sons and two daughters, and below the second the indent for six sons and five daughters
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Day of death October 26, 1576
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