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22 Feb 1658 Holy Trinity (Christ Church), Cork, Ireland. Christened: Nicolas CAM, s/o Edward and Elizabeth CAM (FamilySearch.Org)

See also Nicholas COMBES, gent., of Dublin in 1656; and Nicholas and Priscilla SAMES Cam of St. Giles Cripplegate, London in 1602.


7/3/1697 Joseph COOMB born in the 3rd day of the 4th month 1697 at Cork to Samuel and Elizabeth, place of abode, Cork (Cork, Ireland, Monthly Meeting, Births 1625-1859, p.7, extracted by Researcher David Kendall Martin and provided by Combs Researcher Dale Larson).

25 May 1709 - no date (Philadelphia MM PA)

Samuel COMBS received on certificate from Corke three weeks meeting dated 25 May 1709 ("Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Pennsylvania" by W. W. Hinshaw) SW: Cooper

26 Mar 1709 - 2 Apr 1710 Society of Friends (Quaker) Certificate of Removal from Cork, Ireland to Philadelphia, PA dated 5 Mo. 26, 1709. Received 2 Mo. 1710. "Samuel COMBE, "Late of ye Citty Corke, Cooper, having transported himselfe and family to Pensilvania at Such time as severall friends of this place were Removing to that Country and not knowing he Should goe with them, they Layd their Intentions of going before our meeting time nor Season afterwards did not offer for his getting a Certificate to Cary with him wherefore Since his arrivall there he having writ unto a friend here to procure one for him... ye sayd Samuel being a bristall man [Bristol, England] came over into this Country [Ireland] with his wife som time after ye Wars ended to settle in Corke and follow ye Cooping trade and although he was observed to be a Laborious painfull man, ye world favoured him not with Success we hope and desire it may be better in that countrey where we suppose workmen of that Calling are no so plenty as in this nor materials to worke on Soe hard to be obtained as here." Clear in relation to marriage. Received 2 Mo. 28, 1710. (Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, Albert Cook Myers, Swarthmore, PA, 1902)

Samuel COOMBE was born in Bristol, England in 1663, the s/o Quakers Samuel and Elizabeth COMBE. He married Elizabeth in 1693 at the Friends Church in Frome, somerset. Elizabeth HILL was born in Beckington, Somerset, the daughter of John and Elizabeth HUNT Hill who married in 1663 at the Friends Church in Bristol. Samuel was born in Bristol in 1662/3, to Samuel and Elizabeth COMBS and by 3 Jul 1697 birth of son, Joseph) they were in County Cork, Ireland.

See also Quaker John COMBE of Lisburn, County Antrim.


Extracted from the "Index of O'Kief, Coshe Mange, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland," 16 vols, Albert Eugene Casey, Eleanor L. Downey-Prince, and Ursula Dietrich, Knocknagree Historical Fund, Birmingham, Alabama, 1952-1971:

1757 Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. William COMBE & Mary HOARE

1763 Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. Francis COMBE & Susanna COLLINS

1767 Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. Thomas COOMBS & Abigale SEALY

1768 Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. Joseph COOMBS & Ann MORGAN

1790 Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. Isaac COMBS & Margaret SPRATT

1797. Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. Jhn. [John] COOMBS & Jane BRUCE.

1815 Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. Rober COOMBS & Ellen MORANE

1823. Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. William COOMBS & Abigail HORNIBROOK

1838 Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. Joseph COOMBES & Elizabeth FARR

1844 Diocese of Cork & Ross, County Cork, Ireland. James COOMBS & Eliza DAMERY

See also Quaker John COMBE of Antrim.


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