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Notes for Robert Day
"Beer Crocombe is a very tiny village in a farming comunity. It is very close to the Fivehead River and one of the farms on the edge of the village is named Beer Mill Farm, this was once an old mill. The village is approximately one mile to the east of the larger village of Hatch Beauchamp and one mile south of the larger village of Curry Mallet. The village is set on the junction of two roads and the cottages are built on the eastern ourskirts of the village at the end of a lane that leads only to the church.
The village covers an area of approximately one fifth of a square mile. The name of the villag comes from the old English bere (meaning barley) croh (meaning saffron) and cumb (meaning valley) = barley in the saffron valley. There is no village pub in Beer Crocombe but the two neighboring villages both have a village inn. Some years ago the railway ran just to the south of the village but this has now been dismantled. Beer Crocombe is not a village that you would pass through to get to anywhere so it is very quit with very little traffic. You would probably see more tractors than cars here. The village itself was mentioned in the "Domesday Book" 1086.
The Somerset Parish Marriage Register: 1542-1812, Vol.4, (ed. by WFW Phillimore and EH Bates), Beer Crocombe: p. 28 and 29, lists the marriage of: Robert Day to Abigail Collyar (Collier) May 24, 1664. Since their son John Day was born three years later in the same village, it is safe to assume that these are his parents. Not other DAYs were listed before or after this date. Baptismal records show that Robert Day and Abigaill Collyar had five children.
Genealogist and Day relative, Marie Mimbs wrote June 13, 1998: "In my research I found their were Day families in Taunton Dean which located near (about 8 miles). The Day family lived in between. There were still Day families in Taunton and I have several marriage records and someone who did research in England (on papers it states a relative) did research on these Day families and state relative of them. I am trying to locate more on these families. That is what I hope my niece will find for me. I have some of the families and marriage records but nothing that would help as of now that I can distinguish."
Phillimore has other Colliers were listed. Listed jsut before Abigaill Collyar is the marriage of Johannis Master (ali Weaver) and Catharina Collier, married Nov. 10, 1663. Perhaps Abigail's sister. Also listed was Thomazin Collier who married Robart Shurard on Oct 31, 1657 and then a Thomas Lumbeard on Jan 31, 1679. There was also listed an Agnes Collier m. Matthew Bannde on Jun 16, 1651. Perhaps other sisters."
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