CADET  Lines

The Pomeroy Armorial tree in the 15th century was headed by


Sir Edward Pomeroy, son of William , grandson of  Sir Thomas Kings Knight 1472 & 5th son of Sir Henry Pomeroy by his wife  Johanna Moels .

The  Barony came to Edward after the death of Sir Thomas son of Robert of Smallridge Bockerel & Upottery , whose wife was the twice married & widowed Joanna Chudleigh the heir to the barony with her sister Margaret Cole.  
Having usurped the title to themselves Thomas & Joanna, married 1388 ,failed to produce a living heir and the title reverted to  its rightful male heir, Edward . He was the grandson of Sir Thomas, a Kings Knight, 5th son of Sir Henry Pomeroy by his 1st wife Johanna Moels
Edward was married to  Margaret Bevill  between 1403, probably when she was still a baby , with the marriage settlement fulfilled in 1435  possibly when their son  Henry came of age. He was the 10th Sir Henry Pomeroy , born round 1415 and   married to Alice Ralegh who gave him  at least 6 children .

The Irish Cadet line

Arthur Pomeroy  1st Baron Harberton later 1st Viscount Harberton

1st son of Rev. Ven John Pomeroy, Archdeacon of Cork, by his wife Elizabeth Donellan, dau. of Edmund Donellan, of Cloghan, co. Roscommon

born 16 Jan 1723  Marriedon  20 Oct 1747 to Mary Colley (b. 11 Jul 1723; d. 7 Apr 1794), youngest. dau. and coheiress. of Henry Colley, of Castle Carberry, co. Kildare, by his wife Lady Mary Hamilton, 3rd dau. of James 6th Earl of Abercorn

children

1. Hon Henry Pomeroy,  2nd Viscount Harberton          seen here

2. Hon Arthur James Pomeroy,   3rd Viscount Harberton

3. Hon John Pomeroy,  4th Viscount Harberton 

4. Capt Hon George Pomeroy (b. 1 Mar 1764; dvp. 1794)

5. Elizabeth Pomeroy (d. unm.)

6. Henrietta Judith Pomeroy (dsp. 22 Apr 1778), mar. 25 Jul 1776 as his first wife James [Hewitt], 2nd Viscount Lifford

7. Mary Pomeroy (d. 28 Sep 1778), mar. 23 Jan 1776 Sir John Craven Carden, 1st Bt., and had issue



 Newberry Hall- Carbury, in County KildareA Palladian style house of red brick with stone facings, the design is attributed to amateur architect Nathaniel Clements. Arthur Pomeroy, who later became Lord Haberton, obtained the lands of Newberry through marriage to Mary Colley in 1747.


The Colley family were at this time living in Carbury Castle. Pomeroy, although owning a house in Kildare Street in Dublin, decided to build a country seat at Newberry, thus commissioning the construction of Newberry Hall



1.Henry Pomeroy  born about 1416 was the heir-  who married twice & died 7 July 1487- age about 70-
he did not live  to see 2 of his sons knighted by Henry Tudor on 25 November 1487

     1st wife was  Alice Raleigh by whom he had children  died before September 1478

    2nd wife was Anna Camell married on  20 Sept 1478 -  Anne or Anna  was twice widowed  1st husband was William Barrett of Whiteparish by whom she had a daughter & 2nd husband  Thomas Gyle of Hacche  Arundell, a Dartmouth Merchant ; no children  by him or by Henry. She died 1481.

    Children by  Alice Raleigh 

The cadet line was their 3rd son

when he married  Elizabeth Beaumont who  brought Ingson Manor into the family


 Cheriton Bishop is  a small village on the Okehampton road, 9 miles from  Exeter & 6 miles from Crediton  ; it includes hamlet of Cheriton Cross, and part of the village of CROCKERNWELL, which is partly in Drewsteignton parish. The  Woodleigh estate is close by

 Robert Pomeroy,  married Elizabeth Beaumont of Ingsdon in the parish of Ilsington in Devon who brought  Ingsdon into the Pomeroy family 

   their 1st son Sinclere Pomeroy married Joanna Younge and was living in 1533 

2nd son John , wife unknown, lived at Barnes Place, Over Ingsdon (Burning House or Burn House  above Ilsington village ) and had issue-
Christopher  who married an unknown wife  their  2nd son had a son Isaac at Illsington There were other sons to John.

Sinclere and Joanna’s son John Pomeroy married Elizabeth surname unknown in 24th year of Henry VIII -  1523 -

Their children were    Elizabeth, Johanna, Anna with son and heir

Hugh Pomeroy married twice and had children

                        1st wife Barbara Southcott of Indiho in nearby Bovey Tracey, died at the birth of her 11 th child                                                                                                          

                       2nd  Agnes family un-named   died 2 March 1597

children By 1st wife                                                                                                                                                                                                           


The children of Thomas Pomeroy and Elizabeth Hengscot were

 1.Dorothy  married Hugh Wychalse of Barnstaple- The manor of Lyn and Linton, with Woolanger or Wolhanger, belonged afterwards to the family of Pyne, who continued to possess it in 1620. They were succeeded by the Wichalse family, who later sold it  

2. Barbara Pomeroy married  1st in 1611 to Stephen Southcott of Indiho near Bovey Tracey i who died in 1613 ; 2nd in 21 Nov 1620 to Arthur Seccombe of North Petherwin as his second wife , his first wife being Grace Bligh  by whom he had a daughter Mary Seccombe.-

3. Richard the son and heir married  Anna Copplestone of Bowden- Richard buried  in1616   -  After Richard's death Anna  married again in 1619 to James Lowman of Whitstone 

4. Thomas born 1576

5. John  when he was about 38 or 40 married Mary Seccombe the 13 yeras old daughter of Arthur Seccombe & Grace Bligh -  who was also 2nd husband of his sister Barbara . 

            married at  Lynton in North Devon on 26th Sept 1626- This marriage may have taken place at Lynton because his sister   Dorothy Wychalse lived at Lee Abbey  near Lynton & or the earlier family connection with Philip Chichester who was  at  Wollanger  in Lynton and Lynmouth Parish

     Visitations gives us some of their children 

            1.Mary, who died 6 months before Dorothie was born in 1630 

            2. Dorothy Bapt 24 February 1631 at St Stephen by Launceston  she Married Sir James langham in London died 1710

            3. Arthur   married Elizabeth Osbourne sister and co -heir of Sir John Osbourne of Ballinaylor in  County Waterford in Ireland. before 1675

         son John  born 1677 became ArchDeacon of Cork married MAry Colley & son Arthur became 1st Viscount of Harberton b. 16 Jan 1723,  died on 9 April 1798 at age 75 at Kildare Street, Dublin.

  John Pomeroy (1724 – 10 June 1790) British Army general, the younger brother of Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Viscount Harberton.

 John was elected to the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Carrick in 1755 and for Trim in May 1761.   On 9 March 1762 he was promoted from Lieutenant-Colonel to Colonel of Foot,  and later to Major-General. He served in North America  including at the Battle of Bunker Hill.  He was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland on 28 May 1777.  Promoted to Lieutenant-General on 6 September 1777. In 1783 he was re-elected for Trim alongside William Wellesley.   In May 1790 elected alongside  Arthur Wellesley.(Duke of Wellington)  On his death later that year, he was succeeded as MP for Trim by  Clotworthy Taylor.

2022  & AML, after many years of diligent research, has shown that  Elizabeth Martyn was probably one of the 8 children  of John Pomeroy by his wife Maria Seccombe.

John was 3rd son of Thomas Pomeroy & His wife Elizabeth Hengscot of the Ilsington line. He was about 38 when he married in 1626 at Lynton, North Devon. His wife was Mary Seccombe, who was only 13 years old, Their grandson heads the modern Pomeroy ,Lord Harberton, family.


3rd son . John Pomeroy   “Put To The Law” (1588->1655)  is consistent with their location in London around the  Inns of Court &  the  Bb's at St Dunstan in the West which is on Fleet Street in Farringdon Without, just outside the original walls of the ‎City of London 


John Pomeroy & Maria Seccombe married in 1626 had 8 children 

John born 1629 St Dunstan in the West 

Mary who may have been the first born but died & was buried in 10 Aug 1630 in St Stephen by Launceston in Cornwall

Dorothy, born St Stephens by Launceston 1631 married Sir James Langham in 1695 

Susanna b 1632 , 

ELIZABETH Martyn born 1634 ,married 1652  died 1672

Frances b 1636 , 

Arthur Dean of Cork married Elizabeth Osbourne in Ireland 

Thomas 1638.