Black Torrington 
& Abbots Bickington

Record Subjects:Litigation

29 July 1655 Hugh Pomeroy of Ingsdon and wife Frances Vaughan had a suit against

a Charles Vaughan esq regarding a tenement called Loveland in Bickington Devon.

Record Confirmed in National Archives at Kew

Plaintiffs: Hugh Pomeroy and Frances Pomeroy his wife.

Defendants: Charles Vaughan , John Bennett and John Cosh .

Subject: property in Bickington, Devon.

Document type: bill, answer. ...

Collection: Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions Date range: 1654 Reference:C 6/125Pt2/41

1655 was during the rule of Parliamentarians called the Interregnum or the Commonwealth

There is no sign of a Loveland as a property at Bickington in the Ilsington and Ingsdon manor area - There is a Love Lane in Bickington but thats quite a common name for a lane

HOWEVER there still exists a Loveland Farm near Bideford near High Bickington in North Devon, which is close to the coast near Bideford ,  not very far from Clovelly and about 6 miles away from the Pomeroy group at Abbotts Bickington.

Baptism Andrewe, s/o Rycharde Pomerye. Nov. 1616

Burial Richard Pomerye 23- March 1639

Baptism 1610 Aug 7th Bb Phillipp son of John Pomery ( lost registers )

Baptism 1614 March 9th John son of John Pomeroy ( lost registers )

Baptism  Christopher Pomeroy b. 7 Jul 1616, Abbots Bickington, Devon, 

LITTLE BOVEY   Little Bovey hath ever had divers lords; for in ye 27 of Kinge Henry III, Roger Putford 1181

Roger Putford, with the consent of Margery his wife, gave land in Little Bovy unto Roger de Punchardun his sonne. Richard Punchardun, sonne of Walter Punchardun, held lands in Little Bovy anno 22 R 2; and anno 1, Kinge Henry V ( 1413)  John Homaz, sonne of John Homaz of Exon held land their.

"Among Pomeray's under-tenants the two whose names occur most frequently are Roger and William, but there were apparently two Rogers.

[one Roger, son of Payn of Putford, the other Roger 'Aculeus,' called also Roger the Sandy, (flabus). The former was tenant of Julian Putford and Peamore and was represented in 1166 by Richard son of Payn de Puttiford. Richard de Puttiford held them in 124 1', and Walter Pollard in 1303].

Abbots Bickington  SW of Great Torrington also known as Little Bickington  or  Bichetone / Bicatona

at Domesday was held from the king by Gerald the Chaplain  and had a beautiful little 13th century church. It  formed part of the original endowment of Hartland abbey in the 12th century , was retained until the Dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII –

It is 8 miles E. by N. of Torrington, and N.W. of Chulmleigh, and includes North and South Hele, Stowford, and other scattered farms.It is not far from Bradford with East Putford is less than a mile away.

The town had a charter for a market every Wednesday, which was discontinued about 1725, and it still has a cattle fair on the Monday after May 14th. From about 1400 onwards, owners were selling off parcels of land.

The Bassetts of Umberleigh inherited lands from the Champernownes while the Pyncombes of North Molton acquired large areas around the Parish.

  Whilst researching Pomeroys I came across ' Lost Parish Register ' -on line 1596 -1644 Vol 1 -   

Abstracts of the Existing Transcripts of the Lost Parish-Registers of Devon, 1596-1644,

and short notes on the extant pre-reformation registers of all the parishes in the county, from particulars furnished by the several incumbents thereof.Vol. 1 A-Bra. Exeter: W. Pollard (1908).

A-B only online there might be others  in WCS Library at DRO

Abbots Bickington

Richard Pomeroy Pomerye Birth: abt 1588, Bickleigh, Devon child bp

Death: 23 Mar 1639, Bickleigh, Devon Abbots Bickington

Spouse: Unnamed

Children: Andrew Pomerye (1616-)

Baptism Andrewe, s/o Rycharde Pomerye. Nov. 1616 Burial Richard Pomerye 23- March 1639

7 Jul 1616, Abbots Bickington, Christopher POMEROY Birth: ca 1575, Plymouth child bp

AJP Note - Thomasina Pomeroy 3rd daughter of Andrew Pomeroy senior of Collaton married William Pitford before 1503 she was widowed by 1516 and died in 1536- 2 sons Thomas & Humphrey and there is a collection of  records over land & property 

CP 25/1/46/93, number 32.
County: Devon.Place: Westminster.

Date: Two weeks from Easter, 18 Henry VII [30 April 1503].

Parties: querents Charles (Karolus) Hoppyng' and Richard Aller,, and deforciants.William Pytford' and Thomasia, his wife, 

Property: 10 messuages, 10 gardens, 30 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 6 acres of wood and 6 acres of marsh in Wynkelegh' Keynys and Aysshereyne.

Action: Plea of covenant.

Agreement: William and Thomasia have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Charles, as those which Charles and Richard have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Thomasia to Charles and Richard and the heirs of Charles for ever.

Warranty:  For this: Charles and Richard have given them 40 pounds sterling.

Places: Winkleigh Keynes (in Winkleigh), Ashreigney

Thomas Hache. Annuity of 5l. 18s. 2d. out of lands in Wynckley, Holcombe, Cheriton Ryngs Ashe, and Morcharde, Devon, late of Thos, Pitford, deceased, during the minority of Rob Pitford, s. and h. of the said Thomas; with the wardship and marriage of the said heir. Del. Westm., 4 May 29 Hen. VIII.—S.B. Pat. p. 4, m (1530)

HOLSWORTHY, a small market town,   near the small river Deer and the Bude Canal, 9 miles from the coast at  Bude Haven it includes a tract of hilly moorland; the hamlets of Staddon, Chilsworthy, Dunsteep,, and Chesty; and many scattered farms. Earl Stanhope was lord of the manor, which anciently belonged to the baronial family of Brewer, and afterwards to the Chaworth, Paganell, Tracey, Holland, and other families. In the civil wars, Holsworthy was occupied for the King, till February, 1646, when Sir Thomas Fairfax sent a party to take possession, after the victory of Torrington. The parish of Bradford is close by.