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Coumbe in North Hill, Cornwall Family History & Genealogy |
Mostly Coombe ~ Coombe in Australia & Coumbe of North Hill, Cornwall
Early Coombe / Coumbe &c in Australia and their origins. Also Coumbe of North Hill in Cornwall and their destinations. And a few like subjects!
Is it Coombe with one “o”, two or a “u”? Is it with or without “e” or “s”?
Yes it is! Before surname use was more consistent, the spelling of this family name varied. Name forms were usually standardised in parishes before migration, e.g. Coumbe in North Hill and Coombe in Altarnun. But just as name forms changed when people moved from parish to parish, so they changed in Australia after migration.
The purpose of Mostly Coombe is to share results of research and to collaborate with others where there is a shared interest.
In exploring family history, some stories attract greater telling - much more than their births, deaths and marriages.
Feature Section: Early Coombe, Coumbe, Coombes, Coombs, etc Mostly Coombe - Migrants
Feature Story: Solving the mystery of a double-life: James Coombe (Killed on Ajax Reef 1862).
“Mostly Coombe” Family History and Genealogy
My main research interests are: • James Coumbe and Jane Lean and their descendants • Other Coombe, Coumbe, Coombes, Coombs, etc Mostly Coombe - Migrants • Coumbe (also Combe and Coombe) of the parish of North Hill (also known as Northill) and nearby in Cornwall England • Other ancestors of David and Nicole.
There are other pages on Australian Coombe placenames etc and I might (or might not) put some Frequently Asked Questions below!
Like many others, my first interest was in my own ancestry. But this expanded in order to answer two questions in particular. One question I wanted to answer was "Are my Coombe family of South Australian origins related to the Coombe family of Tasmanian origins?" To answer that, one needs to know some of the English ancestry of both families. The answer is of interest to both states. You will find this answer and other related lines in Mostly Coombe.
Another question was “Who is John? Or James … or Thomas?” If I found in records that a Coombe was a licensee of a hotel or a storekeeper or in the goldfields or fined for driving without a proper light – it’s not easy to know which John, James or Thomas Coombe it is. This has been made all the more important because of the amazing historical resource of Trove Digitised Newspapers. Working out which John, James or Thomas benefits all family history researchers.
So although we can find our own ancestry by ourselves without reference to other families, if we want to learn more of their history we need to be able to distinguish our ancestors from their like-named contemporaries.
To help answer these questions, Mostly Coombe attempts to briefly document early Coombe migrants to Australia. It benefits from the many contributions and questions from others.
We each have our own ancestors, Yet we also share those ancestors with many others. Ancestral stories are shared here for the interest and benefit of and contribution by many.
David Coombe, Canberra, Australia
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