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 "■■v Sn. Devon Notes and Queries, 143 troublesome work, I am able to give the following . — Tristram, apparently the eldest child of Peter and Joan Coffin, of Butlers in Brixton, was baptised at Brixton, 11 March, 16^, seven days after his future wife Deanes (or Dewence, or Dionesse, or Dionise), daughter of Robert and Dunes (or Dewynce, or Duence) Stephen (or Steven) of Ford in Brixton, had also been baptised there. From the wills of his father, grand- fathers and one paternal uncle, and from the transcripts of the Parish Register, Tristram*s parents appear to have bad several children, viz. : — II. — ^JOAN, born before 29 Dec. 161 2 (the date of her maternal grand- father's will, in which she is named). III. — Peter, bap. 20 Feb. i6{J (as nothing more is heard of this child he, presmnably, died in early life). IV. — Deborah, bom c. 1616 (a licence for the marriage of a Debora Coffyn with a William Stephens, both of Brix/kitn, was granted 25 June 1640). V. — Eunice, bap. 22 March i6|i (a licence for the marriage of a Eunica Coffyn of Plympton morrys, with a WiUiam Hlil of Newton bushell, was granted 12 Feb. 16J*, but this Eunica may not have been Tris- tram's sister, as the latter, after her arrival in New England, married William Butler of Hart- ford, Conn.) VI. — Mart, born c. 1620. VII. — Ruth, bap. 10 Sep. and bur. 11 Nov. 1623. VI 11^— John, born c. 1625 (?) IX. — A child, en ventre sa mire 21 Dec. 1627 (the date of its father*s will). Tristram's marriage had not taken place down to 16 Dec. 1627 (the date of his father-in-law's will), but his son Peter was bap. 18 July, 1630, and another son, James, on 11 Sept., 1639. My most interesting discovery, however, has been with respect to his mother, as by it a long-standing tradition has been proved to be incorrect. Mrs. Joan Coffin went to New England with Tristram and her daughters, and died at Boston, Mass., 30 May 1661, and from that time to the jH'esent it appears to have been always understood that her maiden name was Thember. From the peculiarity of the name I was, from the first, very doubtful of the correctness