Pedmore, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Halfshire, county of Worcester, 1½ miles southeast of Stourbridge… the living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester… in the patronage of Lord FOLEY. The church, dedicated to St. Peter…
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1586 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Windsor 58) The Will of Anthony PENNE of Pedmore, Worcestershire, Gent names his mother Eliz.; brother Humphrey's 4 children Roger, Henry, Ursula & Martha; sist. Ann COMBYE'S children William, Joane, Katherine & Philip; sister Joice TAYLOR'S children, Anthony, Agnes, Mary Margaret and Elizabeth TAYLOR; sister Mary PEARMAN, wife of Hugh PEARMAN and their children, Anthony, John Nicholas, Jane & Anne PEARMAN; his brother Francis PENNE'S children, Edmund & Eliz.; his brother Gilbert PENNE; his son-in-law John CARTWRIGHT; his brother-in-law John HARLE; and his wife Elizabeth. He names as executors his brothers, John & Francis; and as Overseer, his brother Humphrey. Probated 12 Nov. 1586 by John & Francis PENNE. (Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families, Genealogical Gleanings, Contributory to a History of the Family of Penn, page 552 & 553, Family Tree Maker CD#163, copyright Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division, 1996)
Notes: Although we have not identified the husband of Ann PENN Combs, it may be of interest that (1) we have several Phillip Combs in Westmoreland & Old Rappahannock Co VA & St. Mary's Co MD in the 1600s, the latter overseer at one time to Thomas (& Susannah SNOW) Gerrard of St. Mary's Co MD & Westmoreland Co VA; (2) that in ffyfehed (Fivehead, Fifehead), Somersetshire, EN in 1579, the will of an Edward PEN mentions a Jaone COMB; and (3) a COMBS-HICKS will in Berkshire in 1620.
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