FOUND notes & finds

Historic observation   - Tallow Chandlers / soap & candle makers, became grocers as candle making dwindled  & with it the role of tallow chandler .The introduction of alternatives followed , first gas lighting and then electricity.
Street  lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall, London, on January 28, 1807 . By 1816  most London streets were lit by gas .  It was not until 1859 that gas was used for interior lighting ;  the gas mantle was being used  for interior lighting by 1897.
Electricity was introduced In 1882 with the Electric Light Act  following the first public electricity generator in Godalming, Surrey. 

I found this wonderful trove of images of Brixham...
 

Brixham in 1750. Two young men ,John and James Pomeroy  had businesses and families  & claimed to descend from the noble family.

 All the town knows that is True.  If they didn't, the locals would have run them out of town. Instead, one marries Mary Narracott whose family has been in Stoke Gabriel for centuries.

The other marries a Scoble from nearby Totnes.

Three generations later descendants from the Scoble marriage go to Canada bringing their tradition with them. And it is passed down to today.

It was the same with Eltweed. Except generations earlier. He was known here as "being of good family."

There were others of good family in his group, even Lady Arrabella Johnson, yet no one said he was putting on airs. They knew. A couple of hundred years Later, and 100 years ago  A.A. Pomeroy  had the money to pay researchers in England to help find the link. And to create a book. He was as confident as Pat is today that he didn't have to create the link...it was there somewhere.

Also, he was also creating a record of all the living Pomeroys in the USA, not unlike that which Tony started in the UK years ago 

Monastic holdings, settlements or foundations associated with the Pomeroy family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monastic_houses_in_England#Devon

Buckfast Monastery founded by Savignac monks  from Savigny ; founded 27 April 1136 by Ethelwerd, son of William Pomerei; built on site of Benedictine monastery at Buckfast

AJP NOTES  Savigny-le-Vieux (Manche), in northern France was founded early in the 12th century. Initially it was the central house of the Congregation of Savigny, who were Benedictines; by 1150 it was Cistercian.

William appears to have been 2nd son of Ranulph - William de la Pomeroy  who in 1102 donated the manor of Berry (Pomeroy) to Gloucester Abbe  during the abbacy of Serlo abbot from 1072–1104  (Serlo was a Norman monk of Mont St. Michel, in France & was appointed by William the Conqueror.)

The gift was redeemed by his brother Joscelin  in exchange for Seldene ( Sheldon near Cullumpton )  - there appears to some dispute over who was heir - Visitations has the heir as Joscelin - William de Pomeroy donated 1/4 of a knight's fee in St Omer in Normandy to the "Abbey of Val in St Omer" &  died without progeny at some time before 1114.

Dunkeswell Abbey Cistercian daughter house of Forde, Dorset; This abbey was founded in 1201 by William Briwere as a Cistercian monastery and offshoot of Forde Abbey.NOTES founded 16 November 1201 by William Briwere; dissolved 1539 & granted to John, Lord Russell 1534/5;  

AJP NOTES Brewer had close connections with Pomeroy family With Baron Henry Pomeroy dead by his own hand in 1194 and his brother Jocselin  out of sight as a monk in Forde Abbey until 1199 . King John assigned to the custody of the Berry Pomeroy barony to William Brewer, a prominent but deeply unpopular administrator and judge. He held numerous positions as Sheriff and may well have been the model for  Wicked Sheriff of Nottingham from the tales of Robin Hood. The 3rd baron Henry Pomeroy was probably under age when his father killed himself and the Baron lands were lost under the attainer.

Briwere became a major landholder , founded & endowed three monasteries including Torre Abbey, in Torquay in 1196.  Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire in 1201; and Dunkeswell Abbey in Devon in 1201.

According to Risdon, the lands of William Brewer in Devon formed a feudal barony,  but this does not appear on the list of baronies given by Pole (died 1635),  nor is it recognised by Sanders (1960).  Risdon stated that Brewer held close to thirty knight's fees (usually synonymous with manors) in Devon. His Devonshire landholdings included: Buckland Brewer Tor Brewer, later called Tor Mohun, Holsworthy, Ugborough Bradworthy Wolborough, which  he gave to his foundation of Torre Abbey.

Additional note - Briwere got his hands on Berry Pomeroy circa 1199 - the custom of sending sons to be brought up in another family of equal status could make this man the person who had ward of the Pomeroy heir 3rd baron Henry - baron Henry had to pay a HUGE fee for use & livery of his ancestral lands under Richard II -  700 marks worth around £600,000 in todays terms . Young Henry was married to Alice De Vere dau of the Earl of Oxford

Trebeigh Preceptory Knights Templar (purportedly); Knights Hospitaller  founded before 1199 "by the bounty of " Henry de Pomeral and Reginald Marsh; united with Ansty before 1432; dissolved after 1557/8 & granted to Henry Wilby and George Blythe 1573/4

AJP NOTES  Trebeigh Manor is St Ive (Eve)  https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1140827

Long time ago  found connections to Strode family in St Ive & St Cleer- 

From Historic Manuscripts Archive ~ the Strode family ; ...... Newnham Park in Plympton St Mary Devonand Stoke Fleming in Devon

Callington, in Cornwall; St Cleer ( the manor was called Trebeigh). St Ive , (close to St Cleer and both in Liskeard District of Cornwall), Hemerdon, Shaugh

DARTMOUTH 

Nicholas Roope member of an ancient family from Dartmouth was a Nonconformist who welcomed William of Orange when he landed at Brixham in 1688 -

 he  married Jane Pomeroy dau of Valentine Pomeroy by his 1st wife Jane Reynell in 1643

Nicholas Roope Esquire listed with other familiar names

'William and Mary, 1688: An Act for a Grant to Their Majestyes of an Ayd of Two shillings in the Pound for One Yeare.

 [Chapter I. Rot. Parl. pt. 2.]', Statutes of the Realm: volume 6: 1685-94

A Rental of Warfleet, 1600-1615: Four Mills and a Ropewalk.

A rental from the time of Sir George Southcote for 1600-1615 has survived, showing that there was by this time a sizeable community living in Warfleet. The

leading family were now the Roopes, a family with several branches who though not yet freeholders were wealthy farmers, merchants and shipowners. They held farms at Week, and Little Dartmouth farm which included the whole of Gallants Bower.

Nicholas Roope the Younger held "A very fair new built house and quay at Walflete". As a merchant trading extensively to Europe and Newfoundland, he could use his own quay and avoid paying dues to Dartmouth Corporation. It must have been busy with ships unloading their cargoes. The Roopes were buried in St. Petrox church, where there are fine brasses of John Roope who died in 1608, and his married daughters Barbara Plumleigh and Dorothy Rous.

The Civil War in Warfleet, 1642-9.

At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642 Ambrose Roope son of the above John owned Little Dartmouth while his cousin Nicholas Roope owned Warfleet Quay, the new house on it and the two farms at Week. Ambrose took no part in the war and may have been a Royalist, but Nicholas strongly supported Parliament as did Dartmouth Corporation. Having helped with building defences in Dartmouth, Nicholas then raised and armed a troop of 200 soldiers which he took to help defend Plymouth. While he was away, his property was attacked and plundered.

When Dartmouth prepared for the expected attack by the Royalist forces under Prince Maurice the area round Warfleet and the Castle was of vital importance. A road block was built above Warfleet mills. The old fort at Paradise was strengthened with ironwork and guns mounted there. The castle was manned, and guns supplied with powder, while the chain was stretched across the river to Godmerock on the Kingswear side. Prince Maurice besieged the town for a month before attacking it along the Warfleet valley in October 1643. Clearing the roadblock by the mills he next seized Paradise Fort, from where his guns could fire on the castle. The town was forced to surrender, and for three years was occupied by the Royalists.

Nicholas Roope who died in 1681 was never a member of the Corporation after the Restoration, when Charles II's Cavalier Parliament made a law that only Anglicans could serve on town councils.
When James II fled from England in 1688 and William of Orange landed at Brixham another Nicholas Roope,  junior, claimed that he was the first gentlemen who went to pledge his allegiance to him. In January 1689 he was rewarded by being appointed Governor of Dartmouth Castle by William as soon as he was accepted as king.

Jane  Reynell married Valentine Pomeroy 1615 Sir Richard Reynell built Forde House in Newton Abbott  nephews Richard of Ogwell and Thomas were servers to King Charles I.
Lucy Lady Reynell founded a hospital house 1638 NA. The family also owned the manor of East Ogwell  where Elizabeth the unmarried daughter of  Hugh  Pomeroy  and Barbara Southcot lived & died in 1627

 Between the reigns of King John and Henry V, the Reynells 'were ever men of great credit, fidelity, and service, to their Kings, country and state as well in peace matters as wars' They had great 'revenues, offices, lordships and lands, in sundry shires' including Somerset, Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire, but their greatest possessions were in Devon and Cornwall.

By the end of this period these included Malston (Old and New), Netherton, Frogmere, East Ogwell, Butterley, Sandhulk, Ellacombe, Crews-Morchard, Upton, Hidswell, Nootcombe, East and West Thwangley, Nassey, East-Raddon, Colebrook, Trebarch, Trebligha, Hyerland, Watringdon, Overcombe, Upbutterley, Nethercombe, Carpenters Fosse, Cottesbury, Ley, South-Downs, Shernewicke, Pittes, Eastabrook, Snedon, Penmalth, Overhosdon, Polhele, Tremollow, Wiero, St. Germans, Bodmin and lands in other villages and in Plymouth.

Sir Richard Reynell 4th son  of George Reynell of Malston by Joan, da. of Lewis Fortescue of Fallowpit or Fulpit, baron of the Exchequer. educ. New Inn; Middle Temple 1585, called to the bar on 1594. married  1593, Mary, da. and coh. of John Peryam, 2sons 7daughters Knighted. 1622. Died 1631

there was also  his distant cousin, Richard Reynell  of East Ogwell, Devon, had been a close friend of Sir Peter Carew, a relative of the patron.

Sir Richard Reynell (c.1558–1633), was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament,  was the third son of Richard Reynell (1519–1585) of East Ogwell in Devon.

Richard followed his two older brothers, Thomas and Josias into the Middle Temple and in 1617 he was a barrister and Autumn Reader there. In 1593 he was probably Member of Parliament for the Cornish rotten borough of Mitchell together with Walter Raleigh. In the same year of 1593 he was a clerk in the office of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and rose to the rank of senior sworn clerk, known as the "secondary".  On 25 July 1622 he was knighted at Theobalds House.