Paul, Thank you for the advice. I believe you may be right. Regards Len -----Original Message----- From: DEVON [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Hockie Sent: 30 December, 2016 10:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] Pole William (Sir) Colcombe [Colyton] Len, I worked my way back to a Poyle family in the late 18c in Ashbrittle just over the border in Somerset. I have since seen the name spelled Poile, Pole, Pool, Polle, Poole ..... Standard spelling did come until the latter part of the 19c when civil registration of births was made compulsory and there was elementary education for (nearly) all. Prior to that it was a phonetic spelling or how it was spelled in the last entry. I have this with other families and found there was a rough correlation between change of spelling and change of incumbent/parish clerk. Cheers Paul -----Original Message----- From: DEVON [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Len Heyward Sent: 30 December 2016 02:52 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] Pole William (Sir) Colcombe [Colyton] Bev; Thanks for your post. I also have POLE/POOLE in my database, but always considered them as two separate families. Would always gratefully receive any further info you may have. Regards Len Heyward -----Original Message----- From: DEVON [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of B. Edmonds Sent: 10 December, 2016 3:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DEV] Pole William (Sir) Colcombe [Colyton] DEV knt 1635 W ab PCC Afternoon Not my family, but came across this when looking for other things. The above is Sir William POLE's Will located in the Devon Wills Project Lots of info here plus a lots of other Devon names for anyone who has not checked out this website Full text of "Genealogical gleanings in England. [Parts I-xxiii,xxv] https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalglea02wate/genealogicalglea02wate_djv u.txt Under 926 GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND. heir apparent William Poole for term of four score years if he so long shall live and after said term ended it shall be to William Poole son of the last- named William Poole my heir apparent by Mary his wife daughter of Mr. Justice Periam for four score and nineteen years if he the same William Poole now being the youngest so long shall live, and after said term ended it shall be to such person or persons as from time to time shall be the heir male of my body lawfully begotten during the term of one thousand and one hundred years from thence next following and fully to be complete, re- mainder to mine heirs female &c. To every of my cousins William and Thomas Broughtou one yearly rent of four pounds &c. To Laurett Grene my goddaughter forty shillings yearly so long as she shall serve my wife and at the day of my wife's death ten pounds so as she shall marry with the consent of Leonard Grene her brother. The executors to be John Popham Esq. the Queen's Majesty's Attorney General, Thomas Hanhain and George Wadham Esqs. Spencer, 62. [William Poole of Shute, Devon, the testator, married Katharine Popham, sister of Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and aunt of Capt. George Popham (ante, p. 460), the leader of the short-lived colony that settled in August, 1607, near the mouth of the Kennebec River. The testator was buried at Shute, Aug. 24, 1587. His widow was buried there Nov. 9, 1588.- Editor.] There is much more to this if anyone is interested. Regards Bev Edmonds ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message