Two Stinchcombe brothers went to work in Russia in the 1880's. One at least went there at the invitation of the Czar and remained to establish a successful pickling and canning business. He married a Russian and they had several children. Just before the Russian Revolution a British gunboat had to rescue the family and return them to Great Britain. The second brother remained in the Soviet Union and died there. The business man's Russian home is now used as an embassy. Descendants of this line are located in the UK and Oregon. Interestingly, when I was living in the interior of British Columbia in the fifties, one elderly Doukabor, who was participating in the long march to the coast by the Son's of Freedom told me he had heard the name Stinchcombe in Russia and indeed believed it to be a Russian name. (!) I am in contact with two descendants of this Stinchcombe line. The idea that the name Stinchcomb(e) may still survive in Russia is not that improbable. A relative of mine who went to Siberia to work as a consultant-engineer returned to the UK very amused that one of his Russian colleagues was named McDonald! McDonald said his family had lived in russia for over a hundred years..