#36 MARK AND ANNE DYMENT

free lease agreement William Newcombe Sr.

transferred to William Newcombe

transferred fiom Estate of William Newcombe to Jack Newcombe

transferred from Estate of Jack Newcombe to Gertrude Newcombe

transferred fiom Estate of Gertrude Newcombe to Ronald & Audrey Newcombe

transferred from Ronald & Audrey Newcombe to James & Mark Dyment

1881 Census, page 52, family # 202 and 1901 Census, section 1, page 1, family # 2

William Newcombe and family emigrated from Devonshire, England settled in Royalty where he worked in a fiirniture factory moving to Port Hill at a later date. It is believed that he claimed the property (fiee lease) on one of his trips to the Island, as he was a shipwright and made trips on a

regular basis. The property was passed-on to son William Newcombe (1835) who married Eleanor MacDougall (1848), daughter of Peter and Eliza (Ellis) MacDougall of Tyne Valley, in

1868. They had 13 children:

-Sarah Josephine (1868) married Alex Ramsay of Northam, moved to the New Hampshire area and had five children: Earle, Minnie, Harold, Eleanor and Dorothy.

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