When Richard Luscombe was born about 1837, in Helston, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Luscombe, was 35 and his mother, Martha Harvey, was 28. He married Fanny Puddicombe about June 1862, in Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire, England in 1871 and Bowling, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died in April 1915, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 79.
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English (Devon): habitational name from any of the five villages of this name in Devon or from Loscombe in Powerstock, Dorset, all probably named from Old English hlōse ‘pigsty’ + cumb ‘valley’ (see Coombe ).
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