Callington

1689   The deposition of James II and accession of William III and Mary II in 1689 were accomplished without bloodshed or open opposition. 

However few could doubt that there remained considerable support for the Stuart cause. 

To try to identify the opposition and remove them from all positions of power and influence, an Act was passed whereby all office-holders were to take an oath of loyalty to William and Mary and an oath that they would exact vengeance on the Jacobites if William were to be assassinated. 

However the oath rolls taken immediately after the passage of the Act were open for all to sign, and in most places all males of some age and standing were encouraged to take the oath, and their names together with those of defaulters, were enrolled.

Callington (PRO C/213/56)

signed Richard Horndon, John Horwell, Jonathan Hordon, James Haye, John Dier, Robert Miller, Nicholas Moone, James Jope, Richard Crabbe,

John Marton, Edward Hunt, Antho: Eliott, Daniel Jenking, am. Hunicomb, George Knill, James Haye junr.  Thomas Phisick, Sampson Burt, Abram. Moore, Stephen Pethick, John Bowhaye, Peter Martyne, John Littlejohn, John Prideaux, Nicholas Juell, Richard Hendre, Edward Budge,Tristram Doidge,  James Jackman, William Roberts, Thomas Ramsey, John Doidge,   Edward Houghton, John Smyth, William Jenking, Ffrancis Prideaux, Oliver Dodge, Nicholas Nicholson, William Scawen, John Turner, Augustin Sowden, Richard Grosse, John Bartlett,George Matthew, Aquila Stephens, George Doidge, Petter Bartlett, Johen Hatch,  William Harfoot, Joseph Pelyne, Oliver Wrath, Thomas Gaitch,  Sam. Lyne, Sampson Salter , Gilbertt Huett, Nicholas Sargent, James Jope junr, Anthony Horndon, Mayor, John Nicholason, George Haye, William Crabb, W. Lorsten, Samuell Slade, William Ellett,  John Beckett,   Henry Cornish,  William Rich, Peter Moore, Digory Congdon, Peter Grenwood, Richard Prideaux, John Crabb, John Congdon,  Nath. Trubody, John Pomeroy, John Horndon, Nicholas Pelyne, Anthony Westcott,  John Naughton, John Treise, John Pode   

GENUKI

Originally a Saxon settlement and probably called Celliwic, the town of Callington (Cornish: Kelliwik) grew to a community of 200 by the time of the Norman conquest. Callington (Calweton, Calvington, Killington, Killiton) is situated in the Deanery and Hundred of East. It is bounded on the north by Stoke Climsland, east by Calstock and St Dominick, south by St Mellion and St Ive, and on the west by Southill. The parish is named after the Old English for 'Bare Hill'. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Calwetone. In 1584, Callington became a Parliamentary Borough, and continued to send two members to Parliament, until disenfranchised under the Reform Act of 1832.

The town of Callington is situated on a general declivity, but the prospects from it are neither extensive nor picturesque, more especially in some directions where the boundaries are fixed by the more elevated hills. Behind it rises Hingston Downs, some of the highest land in Cornwall; at a distance the hill of Carraton (or Carradon) is visible. Frogwell was the only village in the parish.

Most parish and church description(s) on these pages are from Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall by J Polsue (Truro, 1867 - 1873)

Callington Museum and Heritage Centre is situated in the former chapel building on Liskeard Road, Callington. It opened on 2nd June 1994 and since then has attracted over 7,000 visitors. Its exhibits span all aspects of the social and economic history of Callington and its surrounding parishes. As well as being a place of interest to visit, the Museum aims to provide a resource for those interested in our local history, whether professional or enthusiast. The Museum has a permanent display of prehistory, mining and models of Callington town centre circa 1840, and Callington Railway Station. There is also a changing display of artefacts and documents. Three exhibitions are staged from April to October each year.


MINES in Callington Area 

Holmbush is the oldest mine in the Callington area & the mine  was active in the 1600s and produced lead and copper.

Much later it became part of the large Redmoor Mine complex which spread across Kelly Bray, and included the Kelly Bray mine, under the name of Callington United Mines.

Hichen's Shaft, dating from when the mine restarted in 1876 as Callington United. The centre building worked the 'Cornish rolls' or copper crusher.

Lead and Silver are found together in lodes running north and south above the Copper and Tin lodes running east and west.

Holmbush was a major producer of arsenical pyrites. The great majority of the pyrite producers were in the eastern district of the county and were led in the late 1870s and early 1880s by New Great Consols, Holmbush and Okel Tor, all three of which also sold refined arsenic.

The mining landscape on the Cornish side of the Tamar is similar though to other mining areas in Cornwall. Around Kit Hill the mines developed in open moorland or unenclosed land abutting Hingston Down. 

The miners cottages are typical of mining districts elsewhere in Cornwall and are clustered together in rows, often in small hamlets.

The river Tamar was used for communication and transport for many centuries, though the quays along the river were not able to handle the traffic created during the 19th century mining boom. Calstock and Morwellham were developed as industrial ports with rail links to mine sites.

At Callington arsenic was found with copper ores and was processed by crushing and condensing; the poisonous nature of dust containing arsenic made the work very hazardous. Numerous precautions were taken but the workers tended to die in middleage.

By the middle and late 19th century, Cornish mining was in decline, and many Cornish miners emigrated to developing mining districts overseas, where their skills were in demand: these included South Africa, Australia and North America. Cornish miners became dominant in the 1850s in the iron and copper districts of northern Michigan in the United States, as well as in many other mining districts. 

In the first six months of 1875, over 10,000 miners left Cornwall to find work overseas.


 

Births& Baptisms

Danell POMERY  29 July 1614 married Margaret May in  Callington 

son Anthonie POMERIE Bb 17/ Oct 1614  Callington S/O  Daniel   

Anthony POMERY Married   14 July 1723 to Constance Bennet at Callington 

OLPC/C

1693    Callington        Danniell    POMERY     father      James    

1692    Callington            Lucretia    PUMROY     Antho.         

1695    Callington            Anthony   POMROY     Anthony         

1698    Callington            Richard    POMROY     Anthony         

1705    Callington            Joseph    POMROY       Anthony        

1714    Ive, St.                John    POMROY      father    Daniel       

1717    Callington            Joan     POMEROY                Daniel        

1720    Callington            Sarah   POMEROY                Daniel         

1718    Callington            John    POMEROY                 John         

1721    South Hill             Grace    POMEROY              John   &  Grace     

1723    Callington            Sampson POMEROY             John        

1742    Callington            Stephen    POMROY   born to   Joan     

1741    Callington            John         POMROY                 Margaret    

1744    Ive, St.                Tryphena    POMEROY             Margaret     

1747    Ive, St.                Daniel    POMEROY                  Margaret     

1756    Ive, St.                John    POMEROY                    Margaret     

1766    Callington            Daniel    POMROY         Stephen  &  Joan   

1768    Callington            Elizabeth    POMROY     Stephen  &  Joan    

1769    Callington            Stephen    POMROY      Stephen   & Jane     

1773    Callington            Mary    POMERY            Stephen  &  Jane     

1805    Callington            James    POMROY          Hannah     

1805    Callington            Stephen    POMROY       Hannah    

1805    Callington           Thos.    POMROY                Daniel  &  Mary    

CALLINGTON marriages

1582    Callington    Richard    PUMERYE   to     Thomasen HELLANDE  

1714    Callington    Daniel      POMROY    to    Mary    CORNISH          

1766    Callington    Stephen  POMROY      to   Joan    ROGERS          

1859    Callington    William Daniel POMROY to  Mary    LEAN    witnesses John    Lean,    Eliza    Lean     

1863    Callington    John       POMROY       to   Johanna Hambly  witnesses  JACKSON  Frederick  Wreford,    Elizabeth    Jackman    

Callington

Will of Daniel Pomery, husbandman, of Callington Borough 1664 /CRO AP/P/1110 

Will of Anthony Pomery of Callington 1684 /CRO AP/P/1607 

Will of James Pomery of Callington 1719-20 / CRO AP/P/2510 

Will of John Pomery of Callington 1740/ CRO AP/P/2985



   

19th Century 

Census 1851  Fore Street Callington 

Stephen Pomery,Head, ,46 Sawyer, born Callington Cornwall,,

Eliza Pomery,Wife,  37, born Landrake Cornwall,,

Census 1851  Callington  Lower Street

Stephen Pomeroy,  61,,Grocer born Callington Cornwall,,

Ann Pomeroy,Wife, M,,52,,Stoke Damerell Devon,,

William Pomeroy,Son,U,13,,Scholar, Callington Cornwall,,

1861 Census Callington Lower Street, 

Stephen Pomeroy, Head,  71, born 1790 ,Grocer & Tea Dealer, born  Callington  

 Ann Pomeroy,Wife, 62,Grocer's Wife born Devonport Devon,

 Stephen died 1863

1861  Census West End, Callington, Liskeard, Cornwall, England

John Pomery 44 born 1817 Carter born Callington, Cornwall, 

Mary W Pomery Wife 49 b 1812 Carters Wife B St Dominick, Corn 

James Pomery Son UnM 15 b 1846 Carter B Callington, Cornwall,  

Stephen Pomery Son 9 b 1852 Scholar b Southill, Cornwall, 

George Pomery Son 6 b 1855 Scholar b Callington, Cornwall, 

1861 Census    Lower Street Callington

Stephen Pomery, Head,  56 b 1805 Sawyer, born Callington Corn 

Eliza Pomery, Wife,  47, b 1814 b Landrake Cornwall,,

Keturak E Steed  niece age 23 b1838 Dressmaker b Landrake Cornwall 

1861 Fore Street Callington 

apprentice to Henry Wright Cordwainer b Callington
John Pomery 16 b 1845 Apprentice Cordwainer born Plympton

1871 Fore street Callington 

John Pomroy age 30 b 1841 bootmaker born Plympton Devon

Joanna Pomroy, wife  age 31 b 1840 born Lawhitton


1871 Well Lane Callington

Thomas Pomroy   age 46 b 1825   miner    Cornwall, England

Betsy Pomroy Wife 42 b 1829        Cornwall, England

John Pomroy Son 17 b 1854   miner   Cornwall, England

William Pomroy Son 15 b 1856   shoemaker Cornwall, England

Jane Pomroy Dau 13 b1858   schoolgirl   Cornwall, England

Emma Pomroy Dau 8 b 1863     Cornwall, England

Alice Pomroy Dau 6 1865     Cornwall, England

Annie Pomroy Dau infant b 1871         Cornwall, England

John Pomroy born 1853 died age 18 buried 17 Aug 1871 Callington 

1881 Little Bearland, Callington, Liskeard, Cornwall, England

James Pomroy head age 36 b 1845 Farmer of 30 acres born Callington

Thomasine wife age 38 b 1843 in Landrake

Elizabeth Veale widow lodger age 57 b 1824 ret’d Farmers wife from Ashburton Devon


John Pomery age 16 b 1845 Apprentice Cordwainer in Callington born Plympton 1845 Plympton not found

John Pomroy Bb 31 May 1840   son of John Pomroy, a Tanner, & wife Mary Anne in Plympton St Maurice 

parents John Pomroy a tanner, son of William married Mary Ann Snell , widow  on 30 June 1839 at Stoke Damerell he signed his name she made her mark