HOLSWORTHY

     Earliest found record John Pomeroy Marriage 13 Jan 1687 Holsworthy to Rebecka Cleave  

According to Chris Pomery  this is the earliest found record & considered head of this family the next generation 

John Pomeroy Baptism Nov 1688 Place Holsworthy County Devon - Father John Pomeroy Mother Rebecka 

Richard Pomerye Birth: abt 1588, Bickleigh, Devon child bp  Death: 23 Mar 1639, Bickleigh, Devon Abbots Bickington

children

Christopher Pomeroy b. 7 Jul 1616, Abbots Bickington, Devon, BAPTISM son of Richard

Baptism Andrewe, s/o Rycharde Pomerye. Nov. 1616

MARRIAGE Pomeroy John 13 Jan 1687 Marriages to Rebecca Cleeve Holsworthy, Devon 

Pomeroy John            Bb Nov 1688 Place Holsworthy  Father John Pomeroy Mother Rebecka

Pomeroy Mary        Bb 1696 Father John Pomeroy Mother Rebecka Holsworthy, Devon, England

Pomeroy Grace Bb 12 Jan 1705  Father John Pomeroy Mother Rebecka Holsworthy, Devon, 

other baptisms locally

Baptism 1610 Aug 7th Bb Phillipp son of John Pomery - Abbots Bickington

baptism 1614 March 9th was John son of John Pomeroy - Abbots Bickington

29 July 1655 Hugh Pomeroy and wife Frances Vaughan ( of Ingsdon in Ilsington South Devon ) had a suit against a Charles Vaughan esq regarding a tenement called Loveland in Bickington Devon.

Record Confirmed in National Archives at Kew

Pomeroy v Vaughan. Plaintiffs: Hugh Pomeroy and Frances Pomeroy his wife.

Defendants: Charles Vaughan. Plaintiffs: Hugh Pomeroy and Frances Pomeroy his wife. Defendants: Charles Vaughan , John Bennett and John Cosh .

Subject: property in Bickington, Devon. Document type: bill, answer. ...

Collection: Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions

Date range: 1654 Reference:C 6/125Pt2/41 Subjects:Litigation

1654 was during the rule of Parliamentarians called the Interregnum or the Commonwealth

HOLSWORTHY, near the Bude Canal, 9 miles E. of Bude Haven; 10 miles W. by S. of Hatherleigh; and 42 miles W. by N. of Exeter.
Described byDevon historian WG Hoskins as ... the dullest town in Devon , having scarcely a single building of the slightest architectural merit. 

The church (St. Peter and St. Paul) has a noble W. tower of granite, built c.1500, but the rest of the church has been so restored that it is of little interest, except for the handsome organ

The parish is in Black Torrington Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Totnes and the Diocese of Exeter and contains about 8800 acres of land, including a tract of hilly moorland; the hamlets of Staddon, Chilsworthy, Dunsteep, and Chesty; and many scattered farms. . . .

19th C & Earl Stanhope was lord of the manor, which anciently belonged to the baronial family of Brewer, and afterwards to the Chaworth, Paganell, Tracey, Holland, and other families. . . .

During the civil wars Devon and Cornwall were ravaged by the conflict . Holsworthy was occupied for the King, till February, 1646, when Sir Thomas Fairfax sent a party to take possession, after the victory of Torrington.

Thorne was a Domesday manor,and has some remains of a medieval chapel is now a farmhouse.
Chilsworthy was a Domesday manor.
Arscott (now called South Arscott) was the original home of the Arscotts, who began here in Henry III's time, and rose rapidly in the 16th.,partly on a fortune made in the law.

Soldon was a manor house of the Prideaux in the 17th cent. and contained a considerable amount of work of that date.

WIKI

In 1066 the lord of the manor was Earl Harold and in 1066 it was William I.[1] It was given by Henry II to Fulk Paganell. He gave it, with his daughter Gundred, to Matthew del Jartye. Their daughter and heiress brought it to Chaworth. Henry de Tracey purchased it from Chaworth, and it descended to the baronial family of Martyn. From them it passed by marriage to the lords Audley, and by an entail to the crown. King Edward III granted it to his son, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. John Holland, Duke of Exeter, possessed it by a grant from the Crown, and in 1487 the manor was given for life to Margaret, Countess of Richmond. In 1621 Sir John Speccot (d. 1645) of Speccot in the parish of Merton, Devon, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1622,[3] was lord of the manor. After that it was purchased by the Prideaux family of Soldon, Holsworthy. In about 1713, the manor of Holsworthy was sold by Prideaux to Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry, from whom it descended to Earl Stanhope.[4] In 1932 Holsworthy Urban District Council purchased the manorial rights from Lord Stanhope and so became lords of the manor.

Holsworthy was part the Hundred of Black Torrington. In 1614 King James I granted a charter for an annual fair to be held in Holsworthy. During the English Civil War Holsworthy was held by Royalists forces until, on 17 February 1646, Sir Thomas Fairfax, after his victory at Torrington, sent a party to take possession of the town.[4]

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