When John Duncombe was born about 1833, in Great Barford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Duncombe, was 35 and his mother, Frances Eyte, was 37. He married Eliza Sheppard about July 1864, in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Barford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and St John The Baptist's Church, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died about June 1910, in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 78.
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English: habitational name from any of several places so named, such as Duncombe in Donnington (Gloucestershire), Duncombe in Bilsborrow (Lancashire), Duncombe in Bishops Waltham (Hampshire), or Duncombe in Sherford (Devon), probably from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + Old English cumb ‘valley’.
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