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Thomas Puddicombe, Vicar of Branscombe 1794-1827.

Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries vol. 7:4, (1912) p.128. [Refers to vol.2, p.37, par.28.]

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A.J.P. Skinner

Prepared by Michael Steer

Branscombe church is dedicated to Saint Winifred, a Welsh saint. It is among the oldest and most architecturally significant parish churches of Devon. It probably dates back to about 995, but extant records on the vicars only go back to the thirteenth century. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Note 102. THOMAS PUDDICOMBE, VICAR OF BRANSCOMBE, 1794-1827 (II., p. 37, par. 28.) - The following entries taken from the Registers of the Parish Church, Lyme Regis, Dorset, show his parentage: -

1762. - Thomas and Frances Mary, s. and d. of Mr. John and Elizabeth Puddicombe, bapt. Sept. 8.

1787. - Elizabeth, w. John Puddicombe, interred in Church, Dec. 22.

1789. - John Puddicombe, Surgeon, Alderman, interred in Church, Aug. 24.

1827. - Thomas Puddicombe, Vicar of Branscombe, buried June 20, aged 67.

             Mr. John Puddicombe was twice Mayor of Lyme.

Thomas Puddicombe was of Pembroke Coll., Cambridge, A.B., 1782. Vicar Puddicombe and his parishioner John Stuckey were evidently not on the best of terms, the Vicar enters the burial of the Squire in the Branscombe registers thus: -

"1810. - John Stuckey, esq., aged 91 years, son of Robert and Mary Stuckey. He was more than [blank] years a Magistrate and was the oldest Magistrate in the county for several years before he died. He died possessed of vast worldly property, which after he had long possessed without enjoying and without using, he was at length constrained to leave to others. He died January 26th and was buried February 3rd."                A. J. P. Skinner.