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ALL ABOUT LAND, PROPERTY AND INFLUENTIAL CONNECTIONS - with the their daughters carrying it all!
Thomas Pomeroy Esq., son of Hugh Pomeroy & Barbara Southcot of Ingsdon was Born in 1550 in Ingesdon Devon. Admitted to the Inner Temple (Inns of Courts) in 1567.
In 1575 he married Elizabeth Henscott daughter of John Henscott or Hengscott
They had 6 children .The heir was Richard Pomeroy of Ingsdon who married Anne Copleston of Bowden Farm in Ermington in 1602 & who died 1616 leaving a family of 7 underage children
Thomas died on 18 Apr 1610 & was buried at Ilsington on 25 Apr 1610.
Probate granted at the end of that year in Feb 1610. (New Year began in March )
The church at Bradford with floor-slabs to the Arscotts, Bickfords, Henscotts, and other local families
Bradford Manor built in 1868 replacing the old house burned down in 1770.
Referred to in Visitations as Thomas Pomeroy of Bradford it is unclear where he might have lived.
Bradford may simply refer to the parish of Bradford, in the Torridge valley, 8 miles from Hatherleigh. The parish containing 3468 acres of land & anciently held by the Dabernon and other families, Vivian, Grylls, and Kendall of Helston. Bradford Manor once had a 1,110-acre estate with five farms and three workers’ cottages .
The parish includes the manors of Dunsland Manor, a seat of Arscott family a house that no longer exists. Hengescott, and Lashbrook, which are all mentioned in Domesday , are close to town of Black Torrington and Holsworthy.
They may have leased Hengescott Farm which today is a working farm but they seem to have moved to somewhere in the Landrake - St Germans area .
St Germans & its Abbey Church & its Monastery
Anglo Saxon church was founded in 430 AD by St Germanus & its first written record is of Conan ,made Bishop there as a result of King Athelstan's settlement with Cornwall.
The present church replaced the Anglo-Saxon building and became the cathedral of the Bishops of Cornwall. A monastery grew alongside the church, and was reorganised by the Bishop of Exeter between 1161 and 1184 as an Augustinian priory.
The monastery had a busy port and was an important attraction for pilgrims visiting St Germanus’ relics. The possession of two holdings of land, Landrake ("Landerhtun") and Landulph ("Tinieltun" i.e. Tinnel) was confirmed by King Canute in 1018 having been granted by King Edmund. Both holdings remained in the monastery's possession until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538.
The monks house, adjacent to the church, was called Porth Prior and like most monastic settlement they did a good trade through it. After 1538 it was granted to the Champernowne family, who in 1565 sold it to Plymouth merchant adventurer John Eliot "gentleman, merchant and mayor" He renamed the house Port Eliot & the property remains in that family today .
The history of Landrake tells us that estate of Priory of St Germans lay in the Parish of Landrake & included
”Landrake Barton (250 acres), Talvan (72 acres), Cutlinwith (110 acres), Penquite, Tortan Down with its quarries, (stone from these quarries was used to build St Germans Priory) Pencaver Mill, Brighter, Poldrissick, Trewint, Trebighan , Lantullock and Trewandra”.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1564 the Priory and the estate in St Germans was purchased by John Ellyot & became known as Port-Eliot; it has remained in his family ever since. The Pomeroys of Landrake, if they were tenants of the Priory , would have become tenants of the Ellyots.
Hengescot Manor was held by the Henscots from the C13th until the death of John Henscott in 1572 .
His daughters Elizabeth & Thomasine were his heirs:
Elizabeth Henscott married Thomas Pomeroy was 25, and brought the Hengscott property in Bradford to the Pomeroy' s as her dowry. She died in 1599 having given her husband 6 children.
Sister & co heir Thomasine Henscott married Sir Nicholas Prideaux son of Roger Prideaux of Soldon as the 1st of his 3 wives; they had 1 son before she died in 1573; Nicholas was knighted in 1606 and married twice more.
Thomas Pomeroy & his wife Elizabeth Henscot married in 1575 had the following children:
1 Richard born 9 April 1578 parents not recorded baptised in Bradford parish Devon . Died as a child buried 28 May 1581
Bradford ref 134A/PR/1/1 South West Heritage Trust Archive ref 134A/PR/1/1
1. Richard Pomeroy“Of Ingsdon” (1582-1616) Born on 9 Apr 1578 in Bradford, Devon. On 9 Nov 1602 age 24, he married Agnes Anne Coplestone Of Bowden,near Yealmpton, born abt 1580, daughter of Henry Coplestone & Joan Northway, in Yealmpton, Devon. Richard died in 1616, buried on 31 Aug 1616 in Ilsington, Devonshire. See children below ##
After Richard's death Anne /Agnes married James Lowman of Whitstone. They married at St Mary Major in Exeter on 15 feb 1619. She died age 70, in abt 1650; parish registry entry below
2. Captain Thomas Pomeroy (1579-1622) Born in 1579 at Ingsdon Manor in Ilsington read law entering ( Inns of Court/Lincolns Inn ) in 1634.Captain " of St Erney” . On 1 May 1598, at the age of 19, he married 1st wife Marie GIFFRIE Jiffrie: Widow of John Jeffrey of Tredinnick in St Erney, Cornwall. ( children below **)
4. Dorothy Pomeroy. On 1 Feb 1613 who married in Bickington, near Ashburton to Hugh Wychalse of Barnstaple son of a cloth merchant of Chudleigh and Barnstaple, who it seems were a dubious family of Watermouth smugglers near Coombe Martin !
In 1627 at the time of an outbreak of plague Hugh moved his family to his house, old Grange Farm at Ley, on the cliffs above Lynton. ( The current property was built in the C19th & now called Lee Abbey but was never a monastic establishment )
5. Barbara Pomeroy On 30 Dec 1611 she married Stephen Southcott in Ilsington, who died in 1613. Her 2nd marriage 1620 was to Arthur Seccombe. His daughter by his 1st wife Grace Bligh was Maria Seccombe who was just 13 when they married her to Barbara's brother John .see below
3rd son . John Pomeroy born about 1580 “Put To The Law” (1588->1655) When he was about 40 , on 22nd Sept 1626 in Lynton North Devon he married the 13 year old Mary Marie Seccombe. They had 8 children & their son Arthur became Dean of Cork from whom came the Armorial line of Lord Harberton in Ireland, created in 1791.
Children of Richard Pomeroy in Ilsington Parish & his wife Anne /Agnes Coplestone married in 1602 at her home in Yealmpton
children were according to Vivians Vistations
Thomas Pomeroy the heir age 15 when his father died in 1616
Richard Pomeroy Bb 1604
Henry Pomeroy, Bb 1606
Elizabeth Pomeroy Bb1608 Died 1642
Hugh Pomeroy Bb 1615 married Frances Vaughan
Agnes Pomeroy Bb1612 died 1617
Amy Pomeroy ,under age when her father died in August 1616
Visitations records an Anne born into this family 1 Sept 1620 however this was a year after the 2nd marriage of her mother in Feb 1619 and 4 years after the death of Richard.
In Feb 1619 widow Agnes Coplestone married again. At St Mary Major in Exeter she became wfe to James Lowman of Whitchurch
To that 2nd marriage Agnes/Anne brought 5 under-age children: She would have also had dower properties to support her.
James Lowman was son of Phillip Lowman of Whitstone & his wife Anne Giles, who was daughter of John Giles of Bowden House ,Totnes . They had 7 sons & 2 daughters , James being the eldest son. For some reason James renounced his adminstration of his father's estates & his brother Giles Lowman became co-heir with uncle Sir Edward Giles of Dean Prior. Giles Lowman gent signed the Protestation Return of 1641 at Dean Prior
Thomas Lowman junior signed in St Mary Major Exeter ( Parliamentary Archives )
Hengscot Farm
Tredinnick Manor
RCHARD REYNELL & RICHARD REYNELL JR . TRUSTEES.
C 2/JasI/P7/34 dated Date: 1603-1625
Plaintiff: Thomas Pomery (by John Rolle his guardian)
Defendants: John Floyer, Arthur Seccombe & his 2nd wife Barbara (widow Southecote nee Pomerory) Thomas Smale, John Saltorne & Hugh Sommerdon.
Subject: manors of Ingsdon, Little Ware and Chillaton and lands in Inglsdon in Islington, Weare Giffard, Monkley, Hushem, Parkham & Alescott alias Alverdiscot, Devon.
Parkham is 5330 acres 6 miles from Bideford;
Wear Giffard 1587 acres on the riverTorridg. The manor was held by the Giffords. passing to the Fortescues, when Elizabeth Densul married Sir Martin. Fortescue & later wife of Sir Richard Pomeroy.
Alverdiscot, or Alscott, 2244 acres of fertile land 5 miles E. by S. of Bideford, including the hamlets of Bullworthy and Stonecross.
FMP records
ARTHUR SECOMBE Ist Marriage 21 Aug 1606 EGLOSKERRY to Grace BLIGHE she died 9 May 1619 Their daughter Maria Seccombe married Barbara's brother John Pomeroy
Arthurs 2nd wife was Barbara POMEROY widow of Stephen Southcot 1st marriage ( age 16 ) 30 Dec 1611 Ilsington, Devon. He who died without children on 24 Jul 1613 at Weare Giffard Devon
Barbara's 2nd husband was Arthur Seccomb of St Stephen by Launceston in 1620 EXETER DIOCESE MARRIAGE LICENCES Boyd's 1st Misc
They had at least 3 Seccombe children in St Stephen by Launceston
1631 Nathaniell s/o Arthure SECOMBE (Gent.) & Barbe
1633 Ambrose s/o Arthure SECOMBE (Gent) & his wife Barbara
1634 Susanna SECCOMBE Bb daughter of Arthur (gent.) Barbera
Arthur Seccombe died 21-Nov 1644 St Stephen by Launceston
Barbara Pomeroy Southcott Seccombe died 11-Apr 1669 St Stephen by Launceston
Anne Copleston widow Pomeroy 2nd marriage st St Mary Major in Exeter in 1619
For a long time it puzzled me as to why 35 year old John Pomeroy & his 13 year old bride Maria Seccombe should marry so far from home & in a remote place like Lynton on the North Devon coast in 1621 . However John's sister Dorothy Pomeroy in 1613 had married Hugh Wychalse a Barnstaple Merchant & this might account for it. The Wychalse's might well have been living at Ley high on a headland about a mile along the coast west of Lynton . He must have already owned the property because in 1627, when Plague threatened Barnstaple, Wychalse uprooted his entire Barnstaple household and moved them to Ley ,a place that to this day is remote but in C17th was only accessed by a rough Exmoor track .
1626 Lynton in North Devon - Marriage of John Pomeroy to Maria Seccombe
Son & Heir Richard Pomeroy b. 9 Apr 1578, Bradford, Devon son of Thomas & Elizabeth Pomeroy of Bradford & Landrake died age 38 buried 31 Aug 1616. Married 9 Nov 1602, at Yealmpton, his wife was Anne Coplestone of Bowden Farm Manor Yealmpton b. abt 1580 d. abt 1650
Their children were
1. Thomas Pomeroy born 1603, probably at Ingsdon Manor and baptised at nearby Bickington. He married 1st Mary DREWE and 2nd wife was Jane
His sons by Jane were:
Thomas b circa 1633 married a Mary
Ambrose, b c 1635. Both died without children
Charles 3rd son who married Ann no children found
Their daughters were co- heirs.
Jane who married Rev James Wolcombe of Bickington in Feb 1668
Elizabeth who according to Visitations married John THOMAS of Langford Budville in Somerset (Not found) However parish records have a marriage to Walter Couch at Bickington in Feb 1701.
Anne Agnes who married George Irysh gent of Ashburton in 1655 at Buckfastleigh ; George died 1675 at Buckfastleigh;
Her marriage entry in the parish register suggests she was of the Ingsdon family in Ilsington see below
Agnes Irysh was buried in wool at Broadhempston 25 Oct 1684 ( 4 miles from Ashburton)
Maria who married Henry Sheares; No Birth or Marriage found in FMP nor in the mouse eaten register of Bickington
there was Henry son of Christopher Sheere , Thorverton, Devon, gent (deceased) apprenticed as clerk to Lancelot Rider on, 8 Jun 1657, Fishmongers' Company London Apprenticeship Abstracts, 1442-1850- Christopher Sheere gent of Thorverton died 1687
A Henry Sheere gent buried 1674 at Ipplepen.
2. Richard Pomeroy. Born on 7 Dec 1604 in Bickington, Devon, died before 1684;
3. Henry Pomeroy “Of Westminster”. Baptised at Bickington nearAshburton in 1606 . He married Elizabeth & died in London in 1681 buried at Westminster
4. Barbara. a minor when her father died 1616
5. Agnes Pomeroy. Born 1612 at IngsdonManor baptised at Bickington. Died and was buried 3 May 1617 in Ilsington.
6. Ann Born & Baptised 1 Sept 1610 died Sept 1617
7. Amy Pomeroy. a minor in 1616 when her father died On 17 Sep 1628 age 18 she was married to Percival Carwitham Lord Of Panston in Saint Paul, Exeter, Devon. Percival died aft 1642.
8. Elizabeth Pomeroy. Born ca 1612 in Bickington Devon. Died 3rd April 1642 unmarried
9 .Hugh Pomeroy “Royalist Captain” (1615- 1682) born & baptised at Bickington 24 Nov 1615. Death date & place unknown possibly London. Married Frances Vaughan - 1 daughter - Welthen 1648 Devon Baptisms Bickington, who married at Withycombe Raleigh on 29 Sept 1668 to William Gilham
Frances Vaughan was daughter of Charles Vaughan Esq of Chudleigh baptised 2 May 1621
Her parents were Charle Vaughan Esq of Tresurersbeare, Clist Honiton & Frances Reynell who married by licence on 22 Aug 1617 at Ogwell
3rd son of Thomas & Elizabeth - John Pomeroy's& his wife Mary Seccombe married when she was 13 in 1626 had children
John born 25 May 1629 in London ??
Mary died, buried in 10 Aug 1630
Dorothy, born 24th Feb 1631 St Stephens by Launceston 1631 married Sir James Langham in 1695
Susanna b 27 May 1632 , Westminster - London
Elizabeth Bb 3 Oct 1634 in London married William Martyn in 1652 in Werrington
Frances Bb 9 Jan 1636 , in London
Arthur 1640 married Elizabeth Osbourn 1675
Thomas 20 May 1638 died 17 Aug age 6 months Bb in Westminster
Arthur Pomeroy born 1640 went to Westminster College 1656 then elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1657, (adm. Pensr. May 22 1657, scholar 1658) matr. Michaelmas 1660; 10th in “ordo” 1660/1 ; BA 1660/1; MA 1664; DD 1676; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1661–c.1674;Ordained ; 1663 Chaplain to Earl of Essex, Lord Lieut. Ireland ; Dean of Cork from 11 Feb 1672/3 ; Treasurer of Cloyne from 5 May 1673 ; Prebendary of Limerick 1 Oct 1674-8 ;
Married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Osborne, Bart. MP Ballintayler, co.Waterford and died 1709/10.
Arthur's son John Pomeroy also took holy orders and in 1716 married Elizabeth Donellen of Clogham in County Roscommon.
Their eldest son, Arthur, named for his grandfather, Arthur Seccombe , was created Baron Harberton of Carbery in County Kildare in 1783 and in 1791 Viscount Harberton. He died in 1798 and was succeeded by his eldest son Henry who became the 2nd Viscount.
John Pomeroy (1724 – 10 June 1790) was an Irish general, the younger brother of Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Viscount Harberton born on Cork , sons of the Rev John Pomeroy, Archdeacon of Cork, and his wife Elizabeth Donnellan of Cloghan, County Roscommon.
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,[3] 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 and promoted to Lieutenant-General on 6 September 1777. In 1783 he was re-elected for Trim alongside William Wellesley,[ and in May 1790 alongside Arthur Wellesley. On his death later that year, he was succeeded as MP for Trim by Clotworthy Taylor, and as Colonel of the 64th Regiment of Foot by Major-General John Leland.
George Irysh & Agnes Pomeroy of Ilsington married by banns at Buckfastleigh 1655
Mentioned in connection with the sale of Ingsdon Manor in 1662 to John Stowell
Exchequer: King's Remembrances: Depositions taken by Commission E 134/19 1662
Sir John Stowell, knight. v. Francis Moore, clerk, and his wife Jane - widow Pomeroy ; Geo. Irish and his wife Agnes nee Pomeroy; Henry Sheeres & his wife Maria nee Pomeroy & Jane Pomeroy who married Rev Wollecombe 1668.
Value, &c., of the barton, demesne, and manor of Engesdon (Devon), late of Thomas Pomeroy Date range: 1667 - 1669.
Baptisms
03-Jul 1636 Landrake Thomas son of Henry Pomeroy & Jane
04-Apr 1639 Landrake Henry son of Henry & Jane Pomeroy
HENRIE POMERYE Baptism 15 Apr 1599 Parish St Erney Father Thomas POMERYE
Marriages
Thomas Pomeroy Marriage 17 Jul 1609 at St Erney to Alice Samble
Matilda Pummery marriage: 15 Jan 1610 St Germans, to Edward Clemmant
Jane Pomroy marriage: 12 Jul 1704 St Germans, spouse: John Skin
James Pomry marriage: 29 Sep 1710 St Germans,? spouse Joan /Jane
John Pummery marriage: 13 Aug 1610 S t Germans,? spouse: Margaret Willyms
ALSO FOUND
Cornwall OLPC (6/12/14) Baptisms
1588 Landrake Alce P-BNER? dau of Wilya
1667 Landrake Jane POMEROY dau of Thomas
1601 Landrake Francys POMEROY dau of Thomas died in infancy
burials
1600 Landrake with St. Erney Frances POMEROY
1601 Landrake with St. Erney Frances POMEROY
Wills & Probate
Pomeroy Hugh Esq Death 12 Aug 1715 Stoke Gabriel, Devon, England
Pomeroy Henry 1616 Wolborough, St Mary, Devon, is Wolborough & Ogwell , Newton Abbot, Devon
Pomeroy Henry 1623 Plympton St Maurice, Devon, England
Pomeroy Henry 1646 Landrake, Cornwall, England
Henry Pomeroy Death Probate year 1723 Place St Germans
WILL of Thomas Pomeray Probate year 1622 in & of St Erney probate and administration granted to his relict
For later information on this tree go to Pomeroy Connections
Sir Henry Pomeroy of Westminster;
Mentioned in the Will his brother of Hugh, sister Elizabeth, another brother ( Not in Visitations Pedigree ) and sister Maria Dorothie. He had tenements in Whitefryers, London London
Tredinnick today is a shooting business
Landrake & St Erneys
parish church -
Church Rates book C18th Here
1704: For killing a wild cat 1/-
For killing a badger 1/-
Washing the church linen 6d
This Will, gives the names of this siblings and would suggest that he was the son of Richard Pomeroy and Anne Copplestone of Bowden Manor in Yealmpton Devon and Uncle of William Pomeroy, Merchant Taylor of London and EIC.
The same Sir Henry Pomeroy, of the Holland Regiment, was implicated in the scandal surrounding Prince Charles Stuart and Lucy Barlow whilst he was a refugee in The Hague during the English Civil war until his Restoration in 1660 .
Lucy Walter or Barlow was a young a Welsh gentlewoman, who led a highly disreputable life as mistress of numerous Gentlemen of rank . She seems to have been the first mistress of Prince Charles Stuart , Charles II of England . She bore him a child , James Scott, who Charles later made Duke of Monmouth. In 1678, with Charles II married but childless, a Protestant faction tried to make Lucy's son the heir to the English throne .They spread unproven rumours that the 18 year old Prince Charles had married Lucy, something which he denied. In 1685, after the death of King Charles his Catholic brother took the throne as James II. The Duke of Monmouth started a rebellion against the catholic king but it was crushed at the Battle of Sedgemoor & the duke was beheaded.
James II was deposed and William Duke of Orange and his wife, Mary daughter of James II & rightful heir to the throne, were invited to take the Crown which they did in 1689.
There other Pomeroys in the area around as yet unlinked to this group in Maker. Millbrook & Pillaton here
Like many merchants of that time he was a slave trader & his statue has recently been removed - the bad, evidently outweighing the good he did.
Sir Robert Geffery is the most famous man of Landrake with a distinguished record in the City of London in the 17th Century. He was born at Tredinnick Farm,( seen above) on the banks of the River Tiddy.
Robert Geffery, was a local boy living at Tredinnick Farm in Landrake parish. His baptism is recorded in the register on the 24th May 1613, He went to London and became an eminent East India merchant.
He later became a member, then Master of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers & in 1673 he was knighted. He went on to became Lord Mayor of London in 1686.
When he died in 1703 at the age 91 he remembered his home village. On the south wall of the South Transept is a clause from Sir Robert Geffery's will relating to what he left to the school master and the poor of Landrake and St Erney.
Today Landrake has the Sir Robert Geffery's School voluntary aided school in the village and half the governing body are from the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers in London. The Chalice used in the church during Communion was a gift from the Ironmongers' Company.
The Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch, East London, is the only museum in the United Kingdom to specialise in the history of the domestic interiors of the urban middle classes
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