DACKOMBE FAMILY TREE T14C    28 February 2006

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

        Speculative arrangement of Lincoln and            C=Christened   B=Buried          Burnhams Rd,   Lt.Bookham

        Winterbourne Kingston branches                    w=will         ad=admon          Surrey, U.K.     KT23 3AU

                                                            ipm=inq.post mortem            geoff.mann@btinternet.com

                                                                                  

                                            Clb=Coleby LIN                                  DACKOMBE family summary

                                            PA = St.Peter at the Arches, Lincoln, LIN

                                            Sw = St Swithin, Lincoln LIN

                                            WK = Winterbourne Kingston DOR                                               

                                                                                                      

                                                                            

 

15           John DACKOMBE-m-Sybil POOLE

             of Steepleton | ?mc1470                                                                                                    

             ?bc1440       |                                                                                                          

                           |                         Steepleton                                                                   

                           |                                                                                                       

             ______________|_DACKOMBE___________________________________________________________________?____                           

            |                               |                            |                   |      [2]      | [1]      [2]                      

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

            of Steepleton |                 d1541  |                     bc1475  | mc1500     m BAYNPYNNE    bc1480| mc1505                            

            d1513w        |                        |                     dc1540  |                           dc1540|                               

                          |                        |                             |                                 |                               

                       see T14A                 see T14B                         John-m-Johanna                    |                               

                      Steepleton             ?Corfe Castle                            |                            |     

                                                                              _ _ _ __|_____                       |

                                                                              see T0        |                      |

                                                                                            Francis                |

                                                   ________________________________________________________________|

                                                  |                                             |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                                             [3]  John-m1-Alice GIBTHORPE                [8]    Bryan--m-?Katherine  [9]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                                           of Fishtoft |  mc1530?                               bc1510?|  B1598WK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                                           bc1505?     |  2m William MANBY                             |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                 Huntingdon/Lincoln                    |                                               |                Winterbourne                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                       |                                               |                  Kingston

  ________________________________________DACKHAM______|_______________________                        |___DACKOMBE_______________

 | [4]     |     [5]                   |       [6]                   | [4]     | [4]              [10] |                          ? [11]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 William   Henry--m2-Dorothy HAWLEY    William-1m-Benedicta          daughter  Margaret                Henry-m-Anne ROBSON        Elizabeth                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 dsp       bc1535?   1m Rob.BROOKBANK  b1541    | mc1570? B1582Cby   m Edward  m Wm.FOWLER            bc1540?|   of Shaftesbury   B1626WK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

           d1571 ipm                            |  2m<1589             MADISON                        d1615w |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

           of Coleby                            |  Audrey BARDE wid                                   of WK  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                           [7]                  |                                                            |                  

  _______________________________DACKHAM________|______                                 ________DACKOMBE_____|____                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

 |                  |          |          |            |                               |                          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

 Henry-m1-Margaret  Jane       Anne       Elizabeth    Catherine       Christ.YOUNG-m1-Elizabeth-2m-J.WISEMAN     William-m-Prudence MARTIN                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

          METCALF   bc1570?    bc1570?    C1575Cby     C1581Cby        m1609WK      |  bc1580?    |               of WK living 1623                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

          m1591PA   m1595Cby   m1595Cby   B1578Cby                                  |             |      [12]                 

         2m1604Sw    Samuel     Thomas                                              |             |                         

         Geo.BENT    BUSHIE     LIPPETRAT                                           |             |                                   

                                                                       ___YOUNG_____|_______      |WISEMAN__                         

                                                                      |             |       |               |                         

                                                                      Christopher   Symon   Elizabeth       Josuah                   

 

Notes

 

  1. Reasons for supposing that John had a son named Henry are discussed in the biography of John-15 where it is suggested that Henry was born around 1470, married Christian Morgan of Chitterne in Wiltshire around 1504, sold land there and then lived in the vicinity of Corfe Castle in Dorset until his death around 1540

 

2.      A foot of fine (PRO CP25/2 257/66/41) shows that a Henry Daccombe and his wife Christian sold property near Warminster, Wiltshire in 1504.  It is abstracted in a volume of Wiltshire Feet of Fines ed J.K.Kirby:

 

“1504 Oct of Trinity. (Made quin of Hilary) plaintiffs Richard Elyot, serjeant at law, John Mompesson, John Marvyn and Robert Boweryng v Henry Daccombe and Christian his wife, defendants.  16 messuages, 1 dovecote, 110a land, 9a meadow, 30a pasture in Warminster, Tytherington and Chitterne. Right of Robert, plaintiff, by gift of defendant; remise and quitclaim to plaintiff. (Warranty against John Abbot of St Peters, Westminster, and his successors). Fine £40”

 

In the VCH for Warminster in Wiltshire it is suggested that Christian Daccombe was the daughter of Roger Newburgh.  This seems unlikely for the following reasons:

 

1)       Hutchins describes a marriage contract of 1510 between Christian (sole heiress of Roger Newburgh) and John, Lord Marney, by which extensive Newburgh estates were conveyed to the Marney family.  Christian died in 1517 before the death of Marney. So if this Christian were the wife of Henry Daccombe, this must have been a former marriage, and Henry must have died before 1510 (the Henry left 20 sheep in Thomas’ will was still alive in 1514). Hutchins makes no mention of a former marriage.

 

2)       Roger Newburgh’s will dated 1515 makes no mention of any Dackombe.  His daughter Christian and Sir John Marny named as executors.

 

3)       VCH assumes that the land sold by Henry and Christian Daccombe in 1504 was formerly held by Roger Newburgh, but the foot of fine shows that the Daccombe land was at Warminster, Titherington and Chitterne (150a total), whereas the land held by Roger Newburgh mentioned in 1493 was at Bishopstrowe and Buggeley, with a fishery in Warminster.

 

Christian Cutting, widow of John Cutting, held land in Warminster, Buggelegh, Bishopstrowe, Chilhampton, Newton Bruddecombe (Burcombe?), Carlton (Wilton?) and Fonleston (c1442?).  The ownership was disputed by John Newborough, (Roger's grandfather and heir to John Cutting), but the outcome of the dispute is not known (Early Chancery Proceedings C1 14/31). Possibly some of the Warminster land remained in the Cutting family, and descended to a granddaughter, named Christian after her grandmother.

 

 At present it seems more likely that Henry married Christian MORGAN (see notes on descendants of John-15).  No information has been found concerning the Baynpinne/Bampine family said in the Visitations of Dorset to be married to Christian, sister of Henry.  No other reference to Baynpynne has been found, which raises the possibility that the Christian of the Visitations was a sister-in-law married to brother Henry rather than a sister.

 

  1. The pedigree published in “Lincolnshire Notes & Queries” vol? p233 notes that there was a Dackombe family in Lincolnshire whose arms were so alike those of the Dorset family that the Lincoln branch must have descended from the Dorset family.  The earliest member of the Lincoln branch is said to be John Daccombe of  Fyshtoft in Lincolnshire, and it is suggested that he and his brother Bryan were the sons of John Dackombe of Steepleton, the 3rd son of John and Sybil. (see tree above).  The notes and references discussed in John‑14 however strongly suggest that the 3rd son of John & Sybil  and his son John remained and resided in Horton in Dorset.    It is now suggested therefore that John of Fyshtoft and his brother Bryan were not sons of the 3rd son John, but of the postulated 4th son, Henry (see tree above).  Note that both John of Fyshtoft and Bryan named their son and heir Henry (not John as wrongly stated in the Lincolnshire N & Q), which supports a descent from Henry.

 

Other information constrains the date of death of John of Fyshtoft to about 1540 and the date of his marriage to1530 or earlier, which is consistent with the marriage date of his proposed parents Henry & Christian c1504:-

 

Alice Gibthorpe, widow of John DACOMBE of Fishtoft, married secondly William MANBY and by him had an eldest son aged 35 in 1574, so born c1539 (from the pedigree of the MANBY family published in Lincolnshire pedigrees).  Thus John of Fishtoft must have died before 1539.  But John of Fishtoft had a son Henry who died 2Dec1571, and an inquisition post mortem held at Sleaford in 1574 noted that Henry had a brother William aged 30 in 1571, so born 1541.  Clearly these dates are inconsistent, since if John died before 1539 he could not have a son born in 1541.  Both dates are derived from ages in inq. post mortem which are not necessarily absolutely accurate.  But an error of just one year in both cases, would constrain the date of John’s death to about 1540.  The Lincolnshire pedigree notes that John had 5 children.  So if the last of these was born about 1540, then he is likely to have been married around 1530 or earlier, and so born 1510 or earlier, which is consistent with the marriage date of his proposed parents Henry and Christian c1504.  The earliest reference to Dackombe in Fishtoft found so far is in 1528 when Master Dackombe of Fishtoft was appointed overseer of the will of Richard Browne of Fishtoft [Lincoln wills 1271-1532]

 

  1. The existence of an elder son William and of the two daughters is derived solely from the pedigree in Lincolnshire N & Q

 

  1. The pedigree in Lincoln N & Q gives this marriage as John Dackombe m Dorah dau of Thomas Hall.  The visitation of ? gives Henry Dackham m Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Hawley.  Several independent documents have been found however which confirm the marriage of Henry and Dorothy (see separate file) and no documents naming John have been found, so the visitation version is preferred.  The documents show that, for most of his life, Henry with his wife Dorothy was of Huntingdon, though he also had interests in Lincoln some 60 miles away, and in Coleby near Lincoln.  Henry of Huntingdon probably acquired property at Coleby through his marriage with Dorothy who held land there (perhaps from her first husband Robert Brookbank).  In the visitation of Lincolnshire, Henry is noted as “of Coleby j.u” which I believe means “by right of his wife”.  The inqusition post mortem held after Henry’s death noted that his heir was his brother William, so it seems that Henry & Dorothy had no surviving issue.

 

  1. A number of documents have been found (see separate file) which show that William was involved with his brother Henry in selling land at Huntingdon in 1567.  But he inherited his brother’s property in 1571 which included a manor in Coleby near Lincoln.  Apparently he occupied this manor, since in 1581 he was described as a gentleman of Coleby, and he remained there until at least 1596.  In 1567, William’s wife was named as Benedicta, but in 1589 she was named as Audrey the late wife of Christopher BARDE of Tevelby (probably Tealby 15 miles NE of Lincoln).  That William remarried is confirmed by the burial of “Benet” Dackham at Coleby on 5Dec1582

 

7.      The daughters of William and Benedicta are deduced from baptisms and marriages in the parish register of Coleby:

 

           C 29May1575 Elizabeth DACKHAM

           B 16Apr1578 Elizabeth DACKHAM

           C  9Dec1581 Katherine DACKHAM

 

           m 15Apr1595 Samuel BUSHIE & Jane DACKHAM

           m 15Apr1595 Thomas LIPPETRAT & Anne DACKHAM

 

The parents at the baptisms are not stated, but the Dackham surname is almost non-existenet in this county and there can be no doubt they are William and Benedicta.  The register commenced in 1561 so it is possible that Jane and Anne were baptised elsewhere, perhaps in Huntingdon, before William moved to Coleby. A marriage of Henry Dycam or Dockam to Margaret Metcalf was recorded at St Peter at the Arches, Lincoln on 1Sep1591.  It is unlikely that he was the son of Henry of Huntingdon otherwise he would have been noted as his heir in the ipm.  On 2Jul1604 Margaret Dackam married George Bent at St Swithin, Lincoln.  Possibly she was another daughter of William, but it seems more likely that she was the widow of Henry as shown in the tree.  No descendants of Henry and Margaret are known.

 

  1. The pedigree in Lincolnshire N & .Q, states that John of Fishtoft had a brother Bryan, but gives no other information.  The only other reference to a Bryan Dackombe found so far is in the 1623 Visitation of Dorset.  This notes that Brian Dackomb had a son, Henry, of Kingston in Dorset.  The name, Brian, is unusual and it seems reasonable to assume that both documents refer to the same man; the possibility that they are father and son cannot be discounted, but it is preferable to make the simpler assumption - provided dates are consistent.  There are at least two places named Kingston in Dorset, but other evidence leaves no doubt that the place in question here is Winterbourne Kingston, 12 miles from Corfe Castle and 5 miles south of Blandford .  Henry’s will states that he was of Winterbourne Kingston, and his daughter Elizabeth married there in 1609; Henry’s son William married Prudence Martyn, a surname that is also found later in Winterbourne Kingston.

 

The date of Bryan’s birth is uncertain. His son Henry had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married in 1609 and had three children before remarriage and the birth of a fourth child before 1623.  This suggests she was not more than 30 at first marriage, ie born between about 1580 and 1590. Henry’s will was proved in 1615; assuming an age at death no more than 75, and an age of at least 25 when his daughter Elizabeth was born, Henry would have been born after 1540 and before 1565.  Assuming Bryan was no younger than 25 and no older than 40 at the birth of his son Henry, then he could have been born between 1500 and 1540.  Even these wide margins do not cover less probable, but not impossible, situations.

 

The point of these calculations is to determine whether Bryan could have been the son of Henry and Christian.  It is suggested in the tree above that they married c1504, which is clearly consistent with the likely range of dates for the birth of Bryan.  Just as illustration, Bryan could have been born c1510, married c1540 with son Henry born shortly after. 

 

9.      There is no information concerning Bryan’s wife’s name, but a Katherine Dacombe widow was buried at Winterbourne Kingston 25Mar1597/8 and may have been the widow of Bryan.  This is consistent - but only just - with a suggested marriage date of 1540 (age 20 at marriage, 78 at death), 

 

10.   Henry’s will (summarised below, fuller version in a separate file), naming his children and place of residence, identifies this Henry as the Henry, son of Bryan, in the 1623 Visitation of Dorset, though his wife’s name is Anne in the will, and Agnes, daughter of Robson of Shaftesbury, in the Visitation.  The will was made in 1610 before the births of his grandchildren, and he left the residue of his estate to John son of Francis if no grandchildren were born.  Francis was the grandson of John and Joan as shown in the tree above and so was 2nd cousin to Henry if the tree is correct.   Francis was of the manor of Kingston Lacy in the parish of Wimborne Minster only 7 miles from Winterbourne Kingston.  So it is to be expected that the 2nd cousins would have been well known to each other; geographically the Corfe Castle branch was much further away and the Steepleton branch was about 10 miles from Kingston Lacy.  It is possible that the Winterbourne Kingston and Kingston Lacy families were more closely related. If for example, Bryan were a son of John and Joan, rather than a son of Henry, then Francis and Henry would be 1st cousins; failing other evidence however, the arrangement above is retained at present.

 

            Henry Daccombe of Winterbourne Kingston DOR s 1Aug1610 p 29Dec1615

            wife             Anne         :£4pa, bed and board

            daughter         Elizabeth    :brass and pewter

            son and executor William Daccombe :residue

            other            John Daccombe son of Francis Daccombe :residue if both William and Elizabeth die without issue

            overseer         Robert Fookes of (S?)rotonne DOR

            witness          Christopher Younge; Mr William Mainstone

 

11.   Elizabeth  DACHAM was buried at Winterbourne Kingston 10Nov1626; it is no more than speculation that she might have this place on the tree. Another possibility is that she was a daughter of William and Prudence

 

12.   Data from the 1623 Visitation of Dorset

 

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