DACKOMBE FAMILY TREE T14A    17 May 2006

                                                        b=born   m=married   d=died        Dr G.M.W.Mann    Baytrees

                                                        C=Christened       B=Buried        Burnhams Rd,   Lt.Bookham

         Steepleton Branch                              ipm=inquisition post mortem        Surrey, U.K.     KT23 3AU

         from 1565 & 1623 Visitations of Dorset                                             geoff.mann@btinternet.com

         with additional information                      AA-Astley Abbots SAL   

                                                          IC=Iwerne Courtney DOR             DACKOMBE family summary    

                                                          Mr=Moreton DOR

 

16 John DACCOMBE-m-Christian                                                                                                      

   of Chilworth  | d1471will                                                                                                 

                 ?                                                                                                     

                 ?                                                                                                     

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15               John DACKOMBE-m-Sybil POOLE                                                      

                 of Steepleton | ?mc1460                                                                

                ?bc1435       |                                                                       

                d1518ipm      |                                                                                                   

                              |                                                                                                    

        ______________________|_DACKOMBE___________________________________________________________?____                           

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14     Thomas--------m-Joan MOORE      Thomas-m-Elizabeth CLAVELL   John----m-Joan      Christian       Henry                  

       bc1456?       |                bc1460? |                     bc1465? | mc1500     m BAYNPYNNE     ?m Christian          

       d1514will     |                 d1541  |                     dc1540  |                             |                     

       Steepleton    |                        |                             |                             |                    

                     |                     see T14B                      see T0                        see T14C                

                     |                  ?Corfe Castle                                            ?Winterbourne Kingston 

                     |                                                                                                     

        _____________|_DACKOMBE____________________________________________________                                            

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13     John-----m---Eleanor MORGAN     Thomas              Isabel                  Agnes                                      

       b1491    |                    1496-c1572            m Edward MORGAN         m John PUNCHERTON              

     d1562will  |           parson of Tarrant Gunville     m>1514                  m>1514                                      

    Steepleton  |                       [2]                                                                            

       ipm [1]  |                                                                                                         

                |                                                                                                          

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        ________|___DACKOMBE____________________________________________________________________                                   

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12     John----m----Ann HARTGILL    William-m2-Elizabeth      Elizabeth    Katharine  [4]       Johane   [5]                 

       bc1520? |    mc1550?         of Mere    ASHLEY         m MORRIS     m Lord John AUDLEY   m Thomas CHUFFYN             

    d1571will  |    d1586will     and Rushton  1m Geo.PERCY   m<1562       m<1562               d<1562                       

    Steepleton |                     [3]                                                                                         

      ipm      |                                                                                                          

               |                                                                                                           

               |                                       [6]                                                               

        _______|___DACKOMBE______________________________________________________________________________________          

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11     James----m---Elizabeth    William-m-Elizabeth  Silvester--m1-Robert-2m-Jane      Margaret     Sibell       Ann  bc1555?

       bc1550   |   WILLOUGHBY   bc1555    COLTHURST  COTTINGTON    bc1560  | BAILIE    bc1555?      bc1555?      1m2 Henry GANE mc1580?

       d1628will|   m<1571  ?of Chardstock m1582IC    mc1592         d1621  | m1594AA   mc1580?      mc1580?       2m John GERRARD m<1588

   Lt.Fontmell  |                [11]         [8]     d1595will      will   | d1595will | Wm.HORTON    Hen.EVANS              [10]   

                |         [7]                                               |           |                                 

                |                                                 [9]       |           |                    

                |                                   _DACKOMBE_______________|_          Tobias                                                   

                |                                  |       |         |        |         Roger                                           

10              William–m-Elizabeth FRAMPTON       Mary    Jane      Robert   Mary                                                       

                          m1593Mr                  C1596AA C1597AA   C1599AA  C1605AA                                                

                                                   d<1605  m RIDLEY  d<1621?  m Rchd.DUTTON                                 

                                                                                                                      
      NOTES

 

  1. Date of birth given by the inquisition post mortem after his grandfather’s death

 

2.      Thomas had an unremarkable career as rector of St Peter Colebrook Winchester and of Tarrant Gunville DOR (1549-c1572), but made a remarkable collection of books and manuscripts (“A Sixteenth-Century Collector: Thomas Dackomb” by Andrew Watson, The Library 1963 series 5 vol 18(3) pp204-217).  His date of birth17Jan1495/6 comes from his own inscription in one of his books

 

3.      The marriage of Elizabeth ASHLEY (dau of Henry of Wimborne St Giles DOR) to George PERCY and then to William Daccombe is given both in the Ashley and Daccombe pedigrees in the 1565 Visitation of Dorset.  At this time he was of Rushton (a few miles west of Wareham in Dorset) and this is confirmed in a chancery suite in which William sued his brother John over property rents including the manor of Hanforde (Nat Arch C3 54/45 1558-1579).   A few years earlier (1556 or 1557) however in a complaint heard in the Court of Star Chamber (Nat.Arch.STAC4 2/59) he was of Mere in Wiltshire; he was accused by Jane STOURTON widow of seizing hay from the manor of Rushton.

 

  1. In “The Complete Peerage” 1910 p 342, doubt is expressed that the marriage with Lord Audley ever took place; however a chancery bill by his son George confirms the marriage (Nat.Archives C3 5/15 Lord George Audley v John Daccombe and others)

 

  1. Joan is not mentioned in father’s will, but is named in both visitations. Her marriage is confirmed by chancery document (C3 43/61), abstracted as follows:

 

Richard Cheke v John Dackombe 21Jan????  concerning marriage contract of Johane Dukom deceased, daughter of John Dukom of Steepleton. Thomas CHUFFYN gent deceased took Johane Dukom to wife for £60. £30 was paid and Thomas Chuffyn left the remaining £30 to his wife in his will. John Dackomb's son John is now sued for remaining £30 by executor of will of Thomas Chuffyn's son.  John Dackombe the younger has got hold of Thomas Chuffyn's will by casual means and will not pay.

 

C3 class is dated 1558-1579, but date on document unreadable.  It seems likely therefore that Joan died before her father’s will was made in 1562

 

6.      From John-13s will, all the children were born before 1562.  From a deposition in the Nat Archives (C21 D30/9), William was born c1556.  He was the second son, so James (who was married before 1571)  was born around 1550 and Robert around 1560 and their parents married around 1550.  From various wills, the girls were born after 1542 and married between 1571 and 1585. Middle values of 1555 and and 1580 have been used as approximate indications.

 

  1. The marriage of James to Elizabeth Willoughby is confirmed from the Willoughby pedigree in the Visitation of Wiltshire in 1623

      Will of Robert Frampton of Moreton DOR esq, proved 1596: …to my daughter Elizabeth DACKOMBE and her husband William DACKOMBE…

Will of John Ashecombe of Steepleton proved 1598: …to my cousin Elizabeth DACKOMBE the elder £20; to my cousin James DACKOMBE £10; he and his wife Elizabeth joint executors; to my cousin Elizabeth DACKOMBE the younger £40; to my cousin William DACKOMBE the younger, all my guns etc…

 

  1. The marriage at Iwerne Courtney has been variously transcribed as COLSDON/ COSSDEY/COBSDON, but Elizabeth’s name was probably COLTHURST. The 1604 will of Ann HIDE of West Hatch WIL mentions her daughter Elizabeth DACKOMBE.  She also mentions her son Mathew COLTHURST and according to the 1623 Visitation of Dorset she was born Ann SYBIL and formerly married to Matthew COLTHURST of Wardour. Her will mentions numerous grandchildren by name, but none of them are Dackombe’s so it is likely that Elizabeth and William had no issue.

 

  1. The story of Robert Dackombe can be told from from the wills of himself and his two wives, and from suits in the Court of Requests (full abstracts in a separate file).    Robert bought Benwall in Shropshire from his brother-in-law Henry Evans (married to Sybil Dackombe).  Henry Evans was in some financial difficulties at the time and Robert seems to have taken advantage.  Robert wanted the property to impress Silvester Cottington of Leigh under Mendipp in Somerset, a woman of “great wealth” and kinswoman of Henry Evans.  The scheme worked as he married her about 1592, though Silvester’s brother claimed that she was “betrayed away and married aginst the goodwill and liking of her brethren and friends”.  Robert does not appear in a good light, for within a year, he sued one of Silvester’s relations over £5 of her money which she had lent before she was married! And then Silvester died the following year leaving all to Robert.  Silvester’s mother had purchased the rectory of Shipton Montacute for her daughter, but Robert did not part up with it.  He remarried Jane and had two daughters both of whom married and had children.  His son Robert, christened in 1599, was not mentioned in the wills of either parent and presumably died young.  Robert was of Iford in Wiltshire [not yet identified] before moving to Benwall and then to Glazely (5 miles S of astley Abbotts) but is identified unambiguously with Robert born in Steepleton because of the relationships mentioned in the documents.

 

10.   Henry GANE/GAWEN first married Anne BAYLIE and had a daughter Elizabeth.  Anne died after the birth and Henry remarried Anne Dackombe.  Henry died intestate and the property of his first wife came to Anne Dackombe much to the annoyance of his first wife’s family, who sued in the Court of Requests for the property to go to the daughter Elizabeth:

 

Bill by John SEAMER gent, on behalf of Elizabeth GAWEN infant, plaintiffs sister’s daughter.  Anne Baylie, sister to pf and mother of Elizabeth, was seised of lands in Tatton Dorset.  Henry Gawen took to wife Anne Baylie.  Elizabeth HANNAM widow, mother of pf, demised lands in Eddbeare and Marnhull Dorset to Henry and Anne.  Anne died after giving birth to Elizabeth.  Henry Gawen married Anne Dackombe and died intestate.  The lands came to Anne Dackombe which should have come to Elizabeth.  Anne married John GERRARD; Date on Reverse: 21Oct30Eliz[1588]

 

Answer by John Gerrard and Anne his wife.  November 31Eliz[1589].  Sets it all out again.  Writings in safe keeping of James Dackombe. Claims Elizabeth has been well provided.  Nat. Archives REQ2 267/14 1588

 

11.  In 1593, William Dackombe was a witness in a suit brought by his brother Robert, and was then “aged 38 years or thereabouts” thus giving him a birth date of c1555 [Nat.Arch C21 D30/9].  In 1596 a William Daccombe of Chardstock gent aged 40 was a witness in another chancery suit [Nat.Arch. C21 D26/10] and his presence in Chardstock is confirmed by the tudor subsidy of 1594.  Since this William was also bc1556 it seems probable that they are the same person; the Chardstock register survives from 1587 but contains no Dackombe entries