Genealogy: Leonard Coomes (1705-1752)

I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

Leonard Coomes was born in the early 1700s. In terms of genealogy, this can be a difficult time to research. However, it really depends on where they lived. Certain areas kept very good records. It also helps if your ancestors were either rich or related to royalty because that makes is all the more likely records exists. I haven't found much about this person except that he was descended from the early settlers of Maryland.

This person is also a relatively direct relationship. According to Gramps, he is my fseventh great granduncle.

I use GenoPro to maintain my family tree but I mainly use Gramps to generate reports which is what most of the info below is based on. Gramps is open source software that is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. I also use its relationship calculator functionality as noted above. I've also been exploring The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) which is web based and requires a web server, PHP and mySQL database. I also have GedSite which also generates static HTML reports.

While Gramps is free, both TNG and GedSite are commercial software so you have to pay for them. I think their price is reasonable and they are both excellent in their own ways. However, I prefer the open source nature of Gramps and the fact that it generates static HTML makes it easy to work with. I still like TNG enough that I will probably keep using it as well. I've been playing with GedSite on and off but haven't committed to it yet, however I've liked other sites I've seen generated with it. For now I am generating reports with Gramps and updating TNG on a fairly regular basis.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations from Gramps. The chart at the bottom is the same chart as generated by TNG. The index of all individuals I have posted so far can be found here.

Coomes, Leonard

Birth Name	Coomes, Leonard
Gender	male
Age at Death	unknown

Events

Event	Date	Place	Sources
Birth	about 1708	Maryland	1a

Death

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Coomes, Richard Thomas	1675	1752
Mother	Green, Winifred Clare	1670	1735
Brother	Coomes, Thomas	1699
Sister	Coomes, Sarah Jane	1703
Sister	Coomes, Elizabeth Ann	1706	1780
	Coomes, Leonard	about 1708
Sister	Coomes, Eleanor	1715
Brother	Coomes, John Clement	1720
Brother	Coomes, Richard
Sister	Coombes, Margaret

Pedigree

Coomes, Richard Thomas
1. Green, Winifred Clare
  1. Coomes, Richard
  2. Coombes, Margaret
  3. Coomes, Thomas
  4. Coomes, Sarah Jane
  5. Coomes, Elizabeth Ann
  6. Coomes, Leonard
  7. Coomes, Eleanor
  8. Coomes, John Clement

Ancestors

Coomes, Leonard
*about 1708
+...

Coomes, Richard Thomas
*1675
+1752

Coomes, Richard
*1653
+1752

Shercliffe, Anne
*1655
+1748

Shercliffe, William
*1648
+1707

Thompson, Mildred
*1648
+1749

Green, Winifred Clare
*1670
+1735

Greene, Leonard Calvert
*1636
+1688-07-04

Greene, Thomas
*1609-03-27
+1651-01-20

Cox, Anne Gerard
*1609
+1638

Clarke, Ann
*1642
+1692

Source References

Christopher Scott Taber: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tbchsa11-16-50&id=I3344&style=TABLE Taber Genealogy & Ancestry Onward A Name
1. - Source text:
    
    ID: I3344
    Name: Richard Thomas COOMES 1 2 3
    Sex: M
    Birth: 1675 in Stratford On Avon, Warwickshire, England
    Event: Arrival 1750 FREDERICK Co., Maryland 3
    Death: 1752 in Charles Co., Maryland
    Event: Arrival 1690 Hempstead, New York 1
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    Father: Richard COOMES b: 1653 in Statford On Avon, Warrick, England
    Mother: Anne SHERCLIFFE b: 1655 in Stratford, Warwickshire, England
    Marriage 1 Winifred Clare GREEN b: 1670 in Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Maryland
    Married: in of MD
    Married: 1695 in Pangaiah Plantation, Charles Co., Maryland
    Married: in MARYLAND 2
    Married: in MARYLAND 2
    Married: in MARYLAND 2
    Children
    Has No Children Richard COOMES b: in Charles Co., Maryland
    Has Children Elizabeth Ann COOMES b: 1706 in Bedford Co., Virginia
    Has No Children Sarah Jane COOMES b: 1702 in MARYLAND
    Has No Children Eleanor COOMES b: 1715 in MARYLAND
    Has No Children Thomas COOMES b: 1699 in Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Maryland
    Has No Children John Clement COOMES b: 1720 in Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland
    Has No Children Margaret COOMBES
    Has No Children Leonard COOMES b: ABT 1708 in MARYLAND
    Sources:
    Author: Gale Research
    Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
    Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
    Repository:
    Name: Ancestry.com
    Page: Place: Hempstead, New York; Year: 1690; Page Number: 22
    Author: Yates Publishing
    Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
    Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;
    Repository:
    Name: Ancestry.com
    Page: Source number: 3651.046; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1
    Author: Gale Research
    Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
    Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
    Repository:
    Name: Ancestry.com
    Page: Place: Frederick Co., Maryland; Year: 1750; Page Number: 141
  - Citation:
    e-mail: taber_c@att.net
    TABER, FAMILY, AND SITE http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/a/b/Christopher-scott-Taber-MISSOURI/