on 17/3/04 10:19 pm, Mal Hale at [email protected] wrote: > Hello all > I am new to this list and have joined in the hope someone may be able to > provide some answers for a friend of mine. > > She is looking for any information on Eliza Maria PUDDICOMBE who married > Thomas BRIGHT. Eliza was born in St Peters Camarthen around 1824. Her > mother was Rebecca Puddicombe (maiden name unknown) listed in the 1881 > census as a retired stationer born in Haverfordwest, Pembroke in 1797. She > would like to discover her maiden name. > > Eliza and Thomas bright had a son Thomas SMITH BRIGHT a civil engineer. It > seems there were notices in the paper looking for him as he was heir to a > title, plus farmland and a castle! He never claimed it though for fear it > would cost him money. > If anyone has any idea how we are able to verify any of this please please > let me know. > > All I have managed to find so far is an Eliza and Maria Puddicombe, grocers > and tea merchants in Camarhen in the 1840s and the author Anne Adaliza > Puddicombe 1836-1908 who wrote under the name of Allen Raine from Pembroke. > Hello Mal A William Smith Puddicombe was baptized at Haverfordwest St.Martin in 1821. Presumably you have Thomas Bright with wife, brother William, widowed mother-in-law Rebeca (grocer) and brother-in-law James Puddlecombe in Guildhall Square, Carmarthen in the 1851 census? The description of the census enumerator's district includes the phrase ".....commencing at Mr Puddlecombe's at the corner of Guild Hall Square...." There is a village called Stoke in the County of Devon (near Hartland, west of Bideford, north of Bude). Gerry Lewis
Coming in late on this thread. There was a query on the Puddicombe board at Ancestry in 2000 from a Susan, looks like exact same family. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.puddicombe/1.2.5 And the 'Stoke Dev' is most likely the parish of Stoke Damerel in what is now Plymouth city. Although there are another 4 villages listed on Genuki in Devon with Stoke as part of the name, the Plymouth one is now called just Stoke and it was a parish in the C19th and a very busy place given the nearby Docks and Navy influence. http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/indexpars.html#S Gareth List administrator for DYFED, CGN & PEM Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Lookup Exchange http://home.clara.net/tirbach/lookup.html Help Page http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [WLS-PEM] PUDDICOMBE & BRIGHT > on 17/3/04 10:19 pm, Mal Hale at [email protected] wrote: > Snip > > There is a village called Stoke in the County of Devon (near Hartland, west > of Bideford, north of Bude). > > Gerry Lewis > > > ==== WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE Mailing List ==== > Gareth's Help Page > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > >