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C16th Repelling the Spanish Armada of 1588

Dartmouth sent 2 ships equipped by the merchants of the towns of Totnes & Dartmouth and the locality. Seamen were paid for 4 months from 1st May to the end of August. 6 shillings 8 pence a month which was raised by the intervention of Howard to 10 shillings when the Armada was defeated. The remnants of the Spanish fleet were destroyed by storms in the North Sea.

The ships were equipped & supplied by various local people to then value of £27/2s/10d

Supplies included 125 hogshead of beer at 6d a hogshead
Meat , beef & pork was supplied freshly salted , by butchers of Totnes
fish & 3 barrels of butter, wood and tallow.

Preparing for war there were 18 barrels of gunpowder and shot, a single minion cannon with chain shot, 3 muskets with 4 dozen charges, 8 calvers with flasks, small shot;
There were tubs of lead and vinegar, lanterns, wooden dishes, tankards and cans, sheepskins, lambskins to clean gun barrel, a kettle, dripping pans, mustard seed, brimstone........ and a ladle.

A total of £5,973 was subscribed by men from Dartmouth, Totnes and the Hundred of Hey Tor, Stanborough, & Coleridge.

Dartmouth sent numerous ships to join the English fleet that attacked the Spanish Armada, including the Roebuck, Crescent and Hart .

The Nuestra Señora del Rosario, the Spanish Armada's "payship" commanded by Admiral Pedro de Valdés, was captured along with all its crew by Sir Francis Drake. It was reportedly anchored in the River Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh who was in command of the Roebuck and his step brother John Gilbert had command of the Gabriel with Captain John Williams.

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In 1592 the Madre de Deus, a Portuguese treasure ship captured by the English in the Azores, docked at Dartmouth Harbour. It attracted all manner of traders, dealers, cutpurses and thieves and by the time Sir Walter Raleigh arrived to reclaim the Crown's share of the loot, a cargo estimated at half a million pounds had been reduced to £140,000. It still needed ten freighters to carry the treasure to London.

Henry Hudson put in to Dartmouth on his return from North America, and was arrested for sailing under a foreign flag.

The Pilgrim Fathers put in to Dartmouth's Bayard's Cove, en route from Southampton to America. They rested a while before setting off on their journey in the Mayflower and the Speedwell on 20 August 1620. About 300 miles west of Land's End, upon realising that the Speedwell was unseaworthy, it returned to Plymouth. The Mayflower departed alone to complete the crossing to Cape Cod.

Dartmouth's sister city is Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

The town contains many medieval and Elizabethan streetscapes and is a patchwork of narrow lanes and stone stairways. A significant number of the historic buildings are listed. One of the most obvious is the Butterwalk, built 1635 to 1640. Its intricately carved wooden fascia is supported on granite columns. Charles II held court in the Butterwalk whilst sheltering from storms in 1671 in a room which now forms part of Dartmouth Museum. Much of the interior survives from that time.

C17th Civil War 1642 - 1651The remains of a fort at Gallants Bower just outside the town are some of the best preserved remains of a Civil War defensive structure.
The fort was built by Royalist occupation forces in c. 1643 to the south east of the town, with a similar fort at Mount Ridley on the opposite slopes of what is now Kingswear. The Parliamentarian General Fairfax attacked from the north in 1646, taking the town and forcing the Royalists to surrender, after which Gallants Bower was demolished.

Jane Pomeroy dau of Valentine Pomeroy of Sandridge by his 1st wife Jane Reynell, was born 1617 & in 1643 married Nicholas Roope a member of an ancient family from Dartmouth. - their son a Nonconformist, welcomed William of Orange when in 1688 he landed at Brixham.. Roope claimed that he was the first gentlemen to pledge his allegiance to William and in January 1689 he was rewarded when he was appointed Governor of Dartmouth Castle by William II as soon as he was accepted as king,

DARTMOUTH'S original wealth came from a 13th Century trade in Bordeaux wine. King Henry II, father of Richard the Lionheart and the dastardly John, ruled a large area of France, including Aquitaine and Bordeaux which allowed the imports of Bordeaux wine without import duties.

In 1341 Edward lll granted Clifton Dartmouth Hardness full Borough status and by 1347 Dartmouth was the third port of the kingdom, with 31 ships and 757 men, at the time Plymouth had only 26 ships and 603 men.

Dartmouth in the 13th & 14th centuries was significant and fame to the east coast Cinque Ports and the town high status of the town was confirmed in 1390, when it was appointed as the sole port for the export of tin.

Sailing back and forth across the ferocious seas of Bay of Biscay made men exceedingly wealthy. One such was the famous Dartmouth Mayor & MP, the privateer John Hauley who died in 1408 and is still remembered in a very large brass plate in the floor of the church of St Petrox. However when Bordeaux fell to the French 1453, rich merchants no longer had the ability to trade tax free.

In 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert annexed Newfoundland for the English Crown. Soon men from many walks of life, both farmers and fisherman, from along the south coast, were setting sail in tiny fishing boats. Boats which sailors of today would think twice about sailing in any but inshore waters. Under sail they crossed the mountainous and cold seas of the Atlantic leaving in the spring each year spending the summer months fishing in the fish laden seas off the foggy shores of Newfoundland.

When the Spanish confiscated English ships in a Dutch harbour the English Crown took the opportunity and boarded Spanish ships in Newfoundland waters, taking them back to England. Newfoundland was left undefended and this gave an opportunity to the English to make the fishing grounds really pay. This made way for the Triangular Trade which made many men rich including the men of Dartmouth. Portugal and England allied against their common enemy, Spain thus allowing English merchants to avoid the otherwise heavy import and export duties on goods.

Thus the Newfoundland trade was born the first small permanent settlements appearing in around 1630 with many men having two families, two wives, one in England and one in Newfoundland.

Each spring, for several hundred years, twenty or so ships would set out from Dartmouth to collect salt from the Bay of Biscay. Having achieved this they carried the cargo to Newfoundland where some ships would fish and others would lay that fish into salt to preserve it. They also made valuable products from the fishes’ livers, such soap and lamp oil.

At the end of the summer the ships, now packed with fish products, made sail for the Mediterranean and the Caribbean where the fish products were exchanged for wine, fruit or sugar. After that they sailed back to England and when they reached Dartmouth merchants and others would flock to buy what they had.

The people of Dartmouth started to lead more comfortable and affluent life and as their wealth grew the merchants built new houses, many with their dwellings houses above the ground floor, street level shops. Streets like the iconic Butterwalk are a result of the mid-17th Century affluence. Careful planning, determination and hard work brought huge prosperity all of which resulted in growth of Dartmouth.

Merchant families such as the Roopes, the Teages, the Holdsworths and the Hunt created fortunes, and dynasties, through this trade leaving a legacy within the town. By the mid-17th Century,whilst fostering Dartmouth’s influence, they had built large homes for themselves and become the new land owning members of the community.

Dartmouth always provided England's monarch with fighting ships including when Elizabeth I's England was threatened by the Spanish Armada of 1588. The ships the Crescent and the Hart join the fleet provisioned wholly by local merchants.

In 1620 the Mayflower and the Speedwell left Dartmouth, taking 120 ill prepared and ill equipped pilgrims on their 65 day voyage to America, stopping off at nearby Plymouth because their ship was taking in water.

During the Civil War, Dartmouth was for Parliament. After a month-long siege, it fell into the hands of the Royalists. There were 17 deaths recorded on October 4th 1643 during the first siege of Dartmouth when it was captured by Prince Maurice. After two years of occupation by the Royalists the town was recovered in January 1645 by Fairfax for Parliament .

17th century Pomeroys in Dartmouth

John Pommery Birth Date: 16 Nov 1661 SAINT PETROX,DARTMOUTH Death Date: 4 Jun 1663 Father Nicholas Pommery Mother Dorothy

John Pommery Christening 24 Mar 1667 SAINT PETROX,DARTMOUTH,Father Nicholas Pommery Mother Dorothy

There is an Elizabeth Pomeroy mentioned in Feoffees doc as having a property

Feoffees doc

44) 1163 F/L 46 1702 Indenture of Lease between

a. Feoffees - Dr. Atkins & others and b. John Stone, Marener [sic]

Considn: £13 Term 99 years Rent 8/-

Descrn: Mess. Tenement & Dwelling house in Southtown between - Higher St. on W - lands of James Weekes, now Elizabeth Pomeroy on N - lands of feoffees on E

[Kemp’s Lane] - lane leading from Higher to Lower St. on S and also a Garden in Southtown between - lands of Sir John Southcote on W - lands of Thomas Wright, gent, on N

- highway called Above Town on E - lands of feoffees on S

All this house & garden now in possn. of Joan Towills, widow, or her assigns, by indenture of 30/4/1684 for residue of 14 years if she lives.- all this granted to John Stone after above expires for 99 years on lives - of Nathaniel Frankling, son of N. Frankling of Kingsbridge, shopkeeper, and Ann Stone of Kingsbridge,

POMEROY, Roger (1629-1708), of Sandridge, Devon. M.P. for DARTMOUTH 1685 bap. 20 Sept. 1629, 1st surv. son. of Valentine Pomeroy of Sandridge, 1st son by 2nd wife Margaret, da. of Sir John Whiddon of Chagford

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BAPTISM

Pammary Ambrose 15 Feb 1646 Baptism Dartmouth, St Saviour son of John

Pommery Joseph 1657 Baptisms Dartmouth, St Petrox, Devon, died 1658 Burial St Petrox,

Pommery John 1661 Baptisms Dartmouth, St Petrox, Devon, died 1663 Burial St Petrox,

Pomeroy Anne 24 Sept 1665 Baptism dau of William Pomeroy St Clement Townstall Dartm

Pommery John 1666 Baptism son of Nicholas Dartmouth, St Petrox,

Pommery John 24 Mar 1667 Baptism son of Nicholas Pommery & Dorothy Saint Petrox,

Pommery Joseph 1671 Baptisms son of Nicholas Dartmouth died 1672 Burial St Petrox

Pomeroy Elizabeth 12 Jul 1674 Baptism Dartmouth, St Saviour dau of Stephen

Pomeroy Rebecca 5 Jan 1691 Baptism Dartmouth, St Saviour, Devon,father Daniel

Pomeroy Jane 29 Oct 1736 Baptism St Saviour Dartmouth, dau of George

Pomeroy Gilbert 7 May 1738 Baptism St Saviour, son of George died & buried 28 Dec 1738

POMEORY GEORGE 26 Nov 1700 Baptism Brixham, St Mary son of Paul

MARRIAGES

Pomeroy Stephen 3 Mar 1671 Marriage Dartmouth St Saviour to Susan Colsworthy

Pummery Daniel 18 Dec 1690 Dartmouth Elizabeth Crosse

Pomeroy Elizabeth 24 March 1696 marriage to Zachary Kelly St Saviour,Dartmouth, Devon

Pomeroy Rebecca 3 Sep 1728 Marriage Dartmouth, St Saviour, William Hooper

BURIALS

Pomroy Eiffie 13 Jun 1618 Burial wife of Alexander Pomroy St Saviour

Pomery 'Frank' (Frances) 18 Feb 1662 Burial Dartmouth, St Clement Townstall ( dau of John )

Pomeroy Mary 13 Apr 1687 Burial Dartmouth, St Saviour, Devon,

Pomery Nicholas 13 Mar 1687 Burial Dartmouth, St Petrox

Pomeroy Elizabeth 6 Mar 1705 Burial Dartmouth, St Saviour, Devon,

Pomeroy Dorothy 24 Mar 1720 Burial Dartmouth, St Petrox, Devon,

Pomeroy Nicolas 11 Nov 1729 Burial Dartmouth, St Petrox, Devon,

Pomeroy Elizabeth 1 Dec 1729 Burial dau of George Pomeroy Dartmouth, St Saviour,

Pomeroy Daniel 11 Dec 1732 Burial son of George Pomeroy St Saviour,Dartmouth,

Pomeroy Gilbert 28 Dec 1738 Burial Dartmouth, St Saviour, Devon,

Pummery Christopher 4 April 1729 buried Dartmouth, St Petrox, Devon,

Grace Pomery ( widow) Burial 6 Nov 1678 St Clement Townstall, Dartmouth

Elizabeth Pomeroy Burial 1 Dec 1729 daughter of George in Dartmouth, St Saviour

From ALM- Source IGI

Nicholas Pomeroy Birth: NOT FOUND in Dartmouth Married 1654 to Dorothy Pethebridge 2 Nov 1654 St Petrox, Darthmouth

Children

Nicholas Pomeroy Birth: 3 Sep 1655 St Petrox, Dartmouth 1 Jul 1680 marriage to Mary Maddick .
Joseph Pomeroy Birth: 14 Jan 1657 St Petrox, Darthmouth,
John Pomeroy Pommery Birth: 16 Nov 1661 St Petrox, Dartmouth Death: 4 Jun 1663 St Petrox, Dartmouth
John POMEROY Birth: 1663 St Petrox, Dartmouth Devon
John Pomeroy Birth: 24 Mar 1667 St Petrox, Dartmouth Devon
Dorothy Pomeroy Birth: 3 Feb 1669 St Petrox, Dartmouth, Devon, died 24 Mar 1720
Joseph Pomeroy Birth: 1671 St Petrox, Dartmouth, Devon
Anstice Pomeroy Birth: 24 Nov 1674 St Petrox, Dartmouth, Devon

Anstis Pomeroy of Dartmouth married in Exeter to Oliver Frampton of Pool in Dorset 1 Nov 1700 at St Mary Arches, Exeter

WHO was her grandfather? I cannot find a birth for him in Dartmouth or Brixham but since there is a CLEAR connection with Exeter and with Farway I think he might be possibly be Nicholas Pomery son of William & Agnes in Farway Bb 13 April 1617 ????

OR less likely Nicholas Pomeroy son of William at Whitchurch BB 26 Dec 1626 ( 2 miles from Tavistock)

Nicholas Pomery married Elenor Wish in St Sidwells EXETER on 23 April 1667

Children found

William Pomeroy son of Nicholas & Eleanor Bb 14 April 1670 at Farway

Nicholas Pomerie son of Nicholas & Eleanor B 2 July 1673 at Farway

Phillip Pomery son of Nicholas & Eleanor Bb 24 Feb 1675 at Farway

7 year gap

Elenor Pomery dau of Nicholas & El'nor B 29 Sept 1668 died 8 April 1689 at Farway

Nicholas Pomeroy buried Farway 1696.

Eleanor Pomeroy buried Farway 1726

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2 burials

Effie Pomroy wife of Alexander Pomroy buried 13 June 1618 St Saviour Dartmouth

The writing is difficult but it certainly looks like Pomroy

Wilmot Pomeroy wife of Alexander Pomroy buried St Saviour Dartmouth 23 Oct 1630

The writing in the register is very clearly Pomroy

BUT no marriages found anywhere

Who was he ?

Alexander Pomery Bb Farway son of William Bb 14 March 1579

or maybe Alexaunder son of Henry Pomeroy Bb St Mary Magdalen Taunton 29 Jul 1602

Then I searched Dartmouth archive & noticed these

MARRIAGE OF Alexander Cotterell & Effa Wychhalse at St Petrox Dartmouth on 5 Nov 1601

child George Cottrell son of Alexander Bb 2 June 1610

Was she recorded at Effie Pomeroy who died - buried 13 June 1618

marriage: Alexander COTTRELL & Wilmot KEMER or Pomer St Petrox Dartmouth on 15 Jan / 1618

with the year running March to March , January came after June so this could be the same man

Wilmot Pomroy wife of Alexander Pomroy buried St Saviours Dartmouth 23 Oct 1630

Alexander Cotterell son of John Cotterell the elder in FENITON Bb March 1574

making him brother of Johane who married Thomas Pomeroy in Honiton

Did he adopt the name Pomeroy in Dartmouth ?

Thomas Pomery Marriage to Johane Cotterell 10 Oct 1578 at Feniton near Honiton

Joane Cotterell dau of John BB 7 Mar 1551 at Feniton

her brother was John Cotterell Junior who married Elige Salter 17 July 1578

Children of Thomas & Joan Pomeroy in Feniton

Christopher son of Thomas Pomeroy the younger bb 15 Sept 1614 Honiton
Samuel son of Thomas 28 July 1618 Honiton
Anne dau of Thomas Pomery the younger Bb 3 dec 1620 Honiton
John son of Thomas Bb 12 April 1625 Honiton on Otter
Mary dau of Thomas Bb 1 March 1628 Honiton on Otter
Grace dau of Thomas Pomeroy & Joane his wife 27 Feb 1629 Honiton on Otter
Ellyzabeth dau of Thomas Pomery Bb 30 March 1634 Honiton on Otter
John son of Thomas Pomery Bb 18 Jan 1636 at Gittisham
Joane dau of Thomas Pomeroy & Joane his wife Bb 12 Nov 1637 Honiton
Joane dau of Thomas Pomeroy & Joane his wife 28 Feb 1640 Honiton
( on the same page is Elizabeth dau of Richard Pomeroy 14 Bb Feb 1617 Honiton)

Dartmouth St Saviours

Stephen Pomeroy marriage: 3 March 1671 Saint Savior,Dartmouth, to Susanah Colesworthy

Rebecca Pomeroy marriage: 3 September 1728 Saint Savior,Dartmouth, to William Hooper

Early RECORDS

Devon Record Office 3799M-0/ET/19/6 1378

Contents:Quit claim

1. Constance, who was wife of Roger Pole of Dartmouth

2. Thomas of 1a POMEROY (the fifth son of Henry & Moels)

Premises: all 1.'s right in lands and tenements in Wylle and Yealleborne, by reason of dower from Roger Pole, once 1.'s husband

Date: Dartmouth, Thursday after the Nativity of the BVM., 2 Richard II

Seal: round, six pointed star

Devon Record Office 3799M-0/ET/12/2 1378

Contents: Grant

1. Sir John of la POMEROY knt.

2. John Polkesfenne, tailor, of Dartmouth

Premises: all the trees or wood growing on a bank of the garden of 1. at Estwaschbourne, which bank encloses the said garden on the north. 2. is to have the right of ingress and egress to cut down trees and take them away until the next feast of St Michael, and he is to leave some trees growing on the bank so that it is well and conveniently hedged

Date: Berry POMEROY, Wednesday, the feast of the Conversion of St Paul the Apostle, 1 Richard II

East Washbourne

CP 25/1/44/63, number 35. County: Devon. Place: Westminster.

Date: Two weeks from Easter, 3 Richard II [8 April 1380]. And afterwards one week from Holy Trinity, 5 Richard II [8 June 1382].

Parties: Nicholas Kirkham, John Hulle, John Blake, John Fillegh', Robert Hulle and Richard Foldhay, querents, and Thomas de Beauchamp', deforciant.

Property: The manors of Clifton' and Clauton', which Nicholas de la Pom'ay holds for life by the law of England.

1345 (From Dartmouth Manor & Borough

Gilbert Poole of Clifton Dartmouth granted John Foldhay and Christina his wife and Joanna their daughter, twenty four and a half ( 24 ⅟2 ) square feet of land in Clifton lying between the land of Willam Rurde to the south and the land of Gilbert Ple on the north & west and the mill race (bedum) of the east..rendering 12d for the life of the longest liver
Witnessed by William Baconn then Mayor; John Gordonn; Will'm Hemming ; Richard Capyton; Adam Hemmyston and others,

Action: Plea of covenant.

Agreement: Thomas has granted for himself and his heirs that the manors - which Nicholas de la Pom'ay held for life by the law of England of the inheritance of Thomas on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Nicholas de la Pom'ay ought to revert to Thomas and his heirs - after the decease of Nicholas de la Pom'ay shall remain to Nicholas Kirkham, John, John, John, Robert and Richard and the heirs of Robert, to hold of the chief lords for ever.

Warranty: Warranty.

For this: Nicholas Kirkham, John, John, John, Robert and Richard have given him 200 marks of silver.

Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)

Persons: Nicholas Kirkham, John Hull, John Blake, John Filleigh, Robert Hull, Richard Foldhay, Thomas de Beauchamp, Nicholas de la Pomeroy

Places: Clifton, Clawton Clifton is Dartmouth and CLAWTON, also a village and parish 4 miles S. by E. of Holsworthy - West Devon border with Cornwall

Elizabeth Pomeroy Baptism 12 Jul 1674 Dartmouth, St Saviour dau of Stephen Pomeroy

Elizabeth Pomeroy 24 March 1696 marriage to Zachary Kelly St Saviour, Dartmouth,

Kelley of Dartmouth

http://www.dartmouth-history.org.uk/dartmouth/document.asp?1=102986

DOCUMENTS RE FEOFFEES OF ST. PETROX IN DEVON RECORD OFFICE, ref. 1163/F/.

The following are copies of summaries made by Ray Freeman in the Devon Record Office when researching for her books on the history of Dartmouth. There were dozens of indentures of leases and other documents, all numbered according to the DRO system, but not in date order.

Reproducing using the original number, make the story more intelligible & documents are chronologicall , putting deeds relating to the same property together in date order.

The earliest document found relating to the provision of water for the parish is dated (in Latin) Henricus Quinto - i.e. Henry V, who died in 1421. A typed translation dating from 1511 records the handing on of property to new Feoffees, and refers back to an earlier transfer of 1485.

From these early dates it can be seen that successive feoffees looked after much property in Southtown from the early 15C right up to the early 20C

feoffees to look after properties donated. [Illegible.] At end, date refers to Henricus Quinto, i.e. Henry V, died 1421. No earlier document has so far been discovered.

Consideration: £15 Rent: 20 shillings.

Descr: 2 messuages and garden, as before 7 - 9, but (1) now occupied by Johnathan Kelley, mariner, and (2) by William Weeke

Zachariah Kelly of Dartmouth - nothing found

1633 Will of Richard Kelley of Kingswear ( Dartmouth ) merchant annuity of £20 charged on mansion house in Kingswear occupied by William Harns merchant, part his, and part his for term of 2000 years, and on Mouth pastures in Brixham to John Langdon son of Wilmott Langdon for life and then 20s. to poor of Kingswear, 10s. each to poor of Brixham and Churchston [Churston] Ferrers,

John Kelley 1591 marriage to Margery Parker at Dartmouth St Saviour

Joan Kelley Burial 15 Aug 1680 Dartmouth St Saviour

Zachary buried 30 Sep 1653 St Saviour, Dartmouth, son of Arthur Kelley

Benjamin Kelley Birth17 Sep 1664 Baptism 25 Sep 1664 Dartmouth, St Saviour son of Arthur, child died 27 Nov 1664

Arthur buried 14 May 1663 Dartmouth, St Saviour father Arthur Kelly

Arthur buried 21 Jun 1694 Dartmouth, St Saviour father Arthur Kelly

Rebeckah Kelley Baptism 4 Apr 1666 Dartmouth, St Saviour father Arthur Kelley

Esther Burial 1 Dec 1668 Dartmouth, St Saviour father Arthur Kelly

Margaret Kelley Marriage 9 Jan 1663 at Dartmouth, St Saviour to Joseph Bulley

Sarah Kelley Marriage 6 Jul 1676 Dartmouth to Daniel Rexford

Ann Kelley Marriage 26 Dec 1681 Dartmouth, St Saviour to Joseph Saunders

Elizabath Kellye Marriage 28 May 1705 Dartmouth, St Clement Townstall to Henarye Robings