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).
Feature Story: Thomas Sargent Coombe migrated from
Lewannick, Cornwall to South Australia in 1862. Why has he been missing from
the Coombe family story? Thomas died in 1870 in suspicious circumstances. Did
his publican wife Josephine kill him, as well as another husband and two
other men? Find out in the recently published e-book:
 Deaths at Josephine’s Gasworks Hotel
A Victorian Investigation
Immerse yourself in
Victorian intrigue and the world of publican Josephine. A story never before
told. A suspicious death, a coroner’s inquest, a Supreme Court verdict of
fraud and a family cut out of a last minute will. Did Josephine kill four
men? Author David Coombe investigates. Includes readers’ guide for book
groups.
This is a story highly
evocative of the times – the language and the social norms. The author brings
together, for the first time, the case that Josephine may have murdered four
men at her Victorian era Gasworks Hotel – two of them husbands.
This is mostly a story about
ordinary people, although some of the characters rose to great heights in
South Australia as premier, police commissioner and city coroner. But the
story itself is anything but ordinary.
This is the story of
Josephine. From 1863 to 1874 she was the publican at the Gasworks Hotel
in Brompton, an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
Click to learn more, buy the eBook or download a free sample.
“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. To find out
the incredible discovery about Thomas Coombe and his fate, see Deaths at Josephine's Gasworks Hotel.
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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