C18th  ENGLAND'S MARITIME ADVENTURES

Sailing boldly where no Englishman  had sailed before



On 25 May 1768, the Admiralty commissioned  Captain James Cook
to command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean


During his first voyage, in HMS Endeavor , on 10th June 1770 
Captain Cook ship ran aground. & he had discovered the Great Barrier Reef  off the west coast of Australia-
His  2nd voyage 1772 -1775 and his 3rd voyage 1776–1779, into the Pacific were on
HMS Resolution   a sloop , a merchant collier purchased by the Royal Navy & converted .

Bio.  . James Cook -Born in  North Riding of Yorkshire to a Scots farm labourer.
After trying work as shop boy, James Cook joined the British Merchant Navy as a teenager and then, in 1755,  the Royal Navy.
He saw action in the Seven Years' War and after he surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec
he came to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society .
The British exploration of the globe gave him command of HMS Endeavour  in 1777  and in that ship he made the first of his three Pacific voyages..  He surveyed  & recorded  features , naming islands  in great detail  for the first time on a European map. 
Sailing thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe he mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii 
with a combination of leadership, seamanship, superior surveying & cartographic skills as well as physical courage in adverse conditions.
   

On his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific  James Cook was attacked and killed in Hawaii in 1779 while attempting to kidnap an island chief.
He left a legacy of scientific & geographical knowledge that influenced his successors well into the 20th century.
There and numerous memorials worldwide have been dedicated to him, however there is also controversy over his role as 'an enabler of colonialism', as well as the violence associated with his contacts with indigenous peoples.

Captain James Cook Has  NO Direct Descendants.
He had 2 brothers and 6 sisters , neither brother had children . Any descendants of his bloodline come from his sister Margaret Fleck & thus are not COOK

Captain James COOK son of James COOK & his wife Grace Pace. Bb 27 OCT 1728 at Marton in North Yorkshire. 
He married Elizabeth Batts on 21 DEC 1762 in Little Barking, ESSEX, England
They had 5 sons & a daughter all of whom died before him,  all unmarried & without issue.        

James Born: 13 Oct 1763, Shadwell, London Baptised: St Pauls, Shadwell Died: 25 Jan 1794 Appointed Jan 1794 Commander of Sloop Spitfire
 Lost in an open boat, Poole Harbour off Isle of Wight Buried: St-Andrew-the-Great, Cambridge

Nathaniel Born: 14 Dec 1764, Mile End Old Town, London Baptised: St Pauls, Shadwell Died: 5 Oct 1780 A Midshipman in Thunderer lost with all hands at sea in a hurricane off West Indies

Elizabeth Born: 1767 Died 9 Apr 1771 Buried: St. Dunstan’s, Stepney

Joseph Born: 26 Aug 1768 Died: 13 Sep 1768 Buried: St. Dunstan’s, Stepney

George Born: 8 Jul 1772 Died: 1 Oct 1772 Buried: St. Dunstan’s, Stepney

Hugh Born: 23 May 1776 Died: 21 Dec 1793 of scarlet fever whilst a student at Christ College, Cambridge Buried: St-Andrew-the-Great, 


Their father Captain James Cook died: 14 FEB 1779 at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii  

Pomeroy James  1776 British Royal Navy, Ships' Musters -  HMS Resolution
James Pomeroy listed under  supernumeraries -  13 May 1776 - out of Deptford Yard
Ist Voyage on the Endeavour 1768 to 1771;  2nd 1772-1775; 3rd  1776-1780 
The crew appears to include James  Pomroy -  occupation_; Rigger ; serving on HMS Resolution - discharged 14th Aug 1775- 

Maritime Pomeroys

Martin Pomroy Year 1754  Pension granted 1754 - Merchant service

Series ADM 73 Series/Piece ADM 73/036 PART 1 Series description Greenwich Hospital pensioners 1704-1869  Piece description General Entry Book of Officers and Pensioners 

Martin  Pomroy Year 1754   Pension granted 1754 - shipwright -  last ship  Te WELCAM ??  Born PLYMOUTH - last residence Deptford - died that year
Martin son of Charles Pomeroy Bb 3 May 1688 in Plymouth, making him 66  .

Series ADM 73 Series/Piece ADM 73/051  Series description Greenwich Hospital pensioners 1704-1869 Piece description Rough Entry Book of Pensioner

 Robert Pomeroy -1780 British Royal Navy, Ships' Musters; Enlisted 4 Dec 1779 Muster date  Feb 1780 -  on The Jersey


 RESEARCH  begun in Dec 2018 -  

Pomeroy John 1755-56 British Army, Royal Artillery Officers 1716-1899 Great Britain  carpenter - discharged  14 Oct 1769

Muster   Jul 1769 Ship name not given   Location Halifax Yard Ship name or location (as transcribed) Halifax Yard

Record type Ship muster books Archive The National Archives Series ADM 37 Series description Admiralty muster books (series 2) Date range July 1757-Dec 1783 Archive reference ADM 37/8602-8603 Record set British Royal Navy, Ships' MustersCategory Military, armed forces & conflict Subcategory Regimental & Service Records Collections Great Britain, UK

Pasco Pomeroy paid 8 shilings &8 pence & listed in Warde 8th - top right of page

Pascoe Pomery  Date   21  Aug 1680  of  Yealmpton ( close the Plymouth in Devon)

Archive Reference 731/38/39  Event Lists of subscribers re captives in Turkey and Algiers  Category Military, armed forces & conflict Subcategory Other Wars & Conflicts  Collections from England, Great Britain

Pascoe  Pomeroy   Year 1702-12 Regiment - Candidacy year 1703  Series Wo 23 - Royal Hospital Chelsea: Admission Books, Registers, And Papers 1702-1876

Archive The National Archives Archive reference WO 23 Piece number 124  Piece description Muster rolls. Year range 1702-1712  Record set British Army Service Records Category Military, armed forces & conflict Subcategory Regimental & Service Records Collections from Great Britain, UK None

Pascoe was apparently just an ordinary soldier not Esq or Gent or Mr attached to his name

Pascoe Pomeroy 1702 to 1712 regiment Invalided 4th Company 

1704  Series/ Wo 23 - Royal Hospital Chelsea: Admission Books, Registers, And Papers 1702-1876Archive The National Archives / Archive reference WO 23/ Piece number 124/ Piece description Muster rolls./ Year range 1702-1712/ Record set British Army Service Records

Pascoe Pomeroy of Yealmpton Devon on 21 Aug 1680 subscribed 6d towards the redemption of captives in Turkey & Algeria ( Salee / Barbary/ Islamic pirates

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Oak, after the Royal Oak in which Charles II hid himself during his flight from the country in the English Civil War:

Link to ships of the Line 

HMS Royal Oak (08) was a Revenge-class battleship launched in 1914 and sunk at anchor in 1939, in Scapa Flow.

 Pomeroy Robert  1780 British Royal Navy, Ships' Musters- Jersey (Prison Ship)  invalide

Joel Pomeroy  — 1780 British Royal Navy, Ships' Musters                                  

Enlistment date 14 Sep 1780 Muster date ? Aug 1780  HMS Royal Oak for ' the expedition'   Record type  Ship muster books  Archive The National Archives  Series ADM 36 Series description Admiralty muster books (series 1)Date range August 1780-May 1781 Archive reference ADM 36/9522 Record set British Royal Navy, Ships' Musters Category Military, armed forces & conflict Subcategory Regimental & Service Records  Great Britain, UK

Joels - origins not  yet found - was Joel abbreviation  of Joseph? 

ONGOING & ADDITIONAL RESEARCH.June 2019

Robert Pomeroy  1780 British Royal Navy, Ships' Musters- Jersey (Prison Ship)  invalid 

A family  with sailors  Joseph Pomeroy & Patience Barnes were married at Woodbury on the Exe estuary in Devon on  21 Dec 1741,Joseph Pomeroy Baptism 08 Apr 1744 at  Otterton Father Joseph Pomery Mother Patience became a white baker

John Pomery  Baptism  30 Jan 1747 at Otterton Father     Joseph Pomery Mother Patience; who became a  mariner & married Mary Hill in West Teignmouth in 1771 & went to Newfoundland 

Robert Pomeroy born Otterton in east Devon son of Joseph & Patience 13 July 1756 

A huge problem along the south coast in the 17th Century, was the number of Barbary or Salee pirates who  prayed on our ships.  They had long spirited away ships and cargos but in  August 1625 they came ashore ; corsairs raided Mount’s Bay in Cornwall & captured 60 men, women & children& took them into slavery. In 1626 St Keverne was repeatedly attacked, & boats out of Looe, Penzance, Mousehole & other Cornish ports were boarded, their crews taken captive & the empty ships left to drift. Around 60 Barbary men-of-war prowled the Devon and Cornish coasts & attacks became an almost daily occurrence. Those kidnapped were taken to the slave markets of the Ottoman Empire to be bought as labourers or concubines, or pressed into service as  galleys slaves manning the oars.  

These Moorish pirates for many years had a base on Lundy Island picking off ships as they approached Bristol and well as raiding around the coast .  Many attempts to stop them were made, by the navy's of various countries, but it was not until an attack by the British and Dutch in 1816 , in which more than 4,000 Christian slaves were liberated , that the power of the Barbary pirates was broken.
some examples at the foot of the page

The British Army 

Pascha Pomeroy Bb 9 April 1683 son of Nathan & Thomasine in Plympton St Mary Devon;
if this is the same man he was 31 in 1704. Yealmpton is close to Plympton St Mary 

British Army Pay book Pascoe Pomeroy  1702-12 Regiment - not given - March 8th 1704 - paid  8s 8d Sat March 25th 1704 to Sat June 24th 13 weeks pay

Pascoe Pomeroy Year 1702-12 Regiment Candidacy year 1704

Series Wo 23 - Royal Hospital Chelsea: Admission Books, Registers, And Papers 1702-1876

Archive The National Archives Archive reference WO 23/ Piece number 124 /Piece description Muster rolls. Year range 1702-1712 / Record set British Army Service Records/ Category Military, armed forces & conflict

Queen Anne 1702 -1714 Muster Roll - 

April 25th 1704 Mustered then the Caps’. and the Lts’ with 34 gentlemen of Light Horse  as also 8 companies of Foote Invalides & Pensioners in her Majesties Royal Hospital Visit 8 Capt  8 Its 8 ensigns 32 sergeants 32 corporals 16 brims with336 private soldiers invalids all complete; this muster is from 25 April 1704 to the 24 June incisive being just 61 days . signed Silvanus Tonkins Adjut’

  April 25th 1704 Mustered then the Caps’, and the Lts’ with 34 gentlemen of Light Horse, also 8 companies of Foote Invalides & Pensioners in her Majesties Royal Hospital  - 8 Capt,  8 Lts, 8 ensigns, 32 sergeants, 32 corporals, 16 brums with, 336 private soldiers invalids, all complete; 

this muster is from 25 April 1704 to the 24 June incisive being  just 61 days . signed Silvanus Tonkins Adjut’

? what were brums ? drummers maybe?

 https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwigs2/home

 Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army was formed in 1685 as the Lord Lumley's Regiment of Horse. 

It was renamed as His Majesty's 1st Regiment of Carabiniers in 1740, the 3rd Regiment of Horse (Carabiniers) in 1756 and the 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards in 1788. After two centuries of service, including the First World War, the regiment was amalgamated with the 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's) to form the 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards in 1922.

War: Spanish Succession

https://www.britishbattles.com/war-of-the-spanish-succession/battle-of-blenheim/

 Battle of Blenheim ! 2nd August 1704 (Old Style) (13th August 1704 New Style)  

Pay Book 18th Century British Army

Archive The National Archives Archive reference WO 23/ Piece number 124 /Piece description Muster rolls. Year range 1702-1712 / Record set British Army Service Records/ Category Military, armed forces & conflict

 other notations appear to suggest this was a London Regiment of Light Horse

1st page 10ber 25 Christmas Day 1702 a Roll of the Gent of the Light Horse       Alex Crauford Capt

Pascoe Pomeroy 1702 to 1712 regiment Invalided 4th Company
Pascoe Pomeroy  joined the British Army Christmas 1703 -

entry reads-  bb 7ber (refs to month Sept ) 6th ( ? regiment )  1704

Candidacy year 1703 Series Wo 23 - Royal Hospital Chelsea: Admission Books, Registers, And Papers 1702-1876 

Archive The National Archives - Archive reference WO 23 Piece number 124 Piece description Muster rolls.

Year range 1702-1712 Record set British Army Service Records

1st page reads Christmas Day 1702 10ber 25th ( December 25th )

Coll'tt John Hales - Right Hon

David Crauford Esq Lt Gowno'r The Comm's 

Richard Betworth Esq - Major  

John Howe Esq - Treasurer

Mr Tho, Fry - subtreasurer 

Mr Walter Compton -Eldest Capt

Silvanas Tonkyn - Adjutant 

( and others ) other notations appear to suggest this was a London Regiment of Light Horse 6th Dragoons of Lancers