A couple of days ago, I was asked, off-list, if I knew of Castle Combe being called just Combe. I wrote an off-list reply, but I don't know if this was sent from my computer. That morning I was having a little problem with a new set-up regarding sending and receiving mail. So here is my reply. I haven't heard of Castle Combe being called just Combe, but the Combe mentioned could have been Coombe Bissett near Salisbury. Here's the Genuki page for Coombe Bisset (sic): http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/CoombeBisset/index.html There is also a wikipedia page on Coombe Bissett: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coombe_Bissett -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

HI Josephine, Thankyou for the reply through the list, I didn't receive any other reply from you, as you suspected might have been the case. I have been wondering about "Combe" for several years now and have asked before on this list about which place might have been meant by John PARSONS when he gave just Combe Wiltshire as his birth place in the census. Coombe Bissett has been pointed out to me before but cannot decide if that might be the intended place or not. With the Castle Combe having the last part of it's name spelt in the way that John spelt his Combe, rather than Coombe, I am inclined to think that maybe that is where he was born. But I can't be certain that it was not just a mis-spelling of the word Coombe. I think I will just have to put this birth place down to one of those unsolvable family history puzzles. thankyou once again for your reply. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<A couple of days ago, I was asked, off-list, if I knew of Castle Combe being called just Combe. I wrote an off-list reply, but I don't know if this was sent from my computer. That morning I was having a little problem with a new set-up regarding sending and receiving mail. So here is my reply. I haven't heard of Castle Combe being called just Combe, but the Combe mentioned could have been Coombe Bissett near Salisbury. Here's the Genuki page for Coombe Bisset (sic): http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/CoombeBisset/index.html There is also a wikipedia page on Coombe Bissett: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coombe_Bissett>>