INGSDON in ILSINGTON Parish
the Manor House

Robert Pomeroy married Elizabeth Beaumont granddaughter of William Beaumont daughter of John Beaumont
Married in about 1471 when she was 19.
Elizabeth brought Ingsdon in Ilsington into the Pomeroy family with the small nearby manor of Colsworthy ,with its farm
see lower left
Robert Pomeroy was oldest son of John of Cornwall , 2nd son of Sir Edward Pomeroy,& his wife Margaret Beville ,
baron from 1426 until 1446.

His older brother was the 10th successive Sir Henry Pomeroy & we believe it was he who , with the dowry of his wife Alice Raleigh, began the building of the castle at Berry Pomeroy.

From 1471 Ingsdon Manor was occupied by the Pomeroys for seven generations until it was sold in 1662.

ILSINGTON PARISH & Ilsington Manor House

The Pomeroys did not live at Ilsington Manorhouse , they lived at Ingsdon in the parish of Ilsington

Recorded in Domesday Ilsington Parish was held by the Beaumonts & occupied by their tenants the Dynhams ; the last Lord Dynham dying there in 1501.

At that time the Ilsington estate was split into 2 parts.
One was bought by John Fforde the Ashburton Lawyer, the other part went to George & Thomas Fforde, his sons.
It was George Fford who built a vast E shaped mansion in the village .However Ilsington Manor House appears to have slowly disintegrated through the C17th until, by the C18th, the Manor House at Ilsington had all but disappeared. Its remaining two wings were little more than cottages . There are the remains of the walls in the churchyard and these indicate a house of huge proportions .

John Ford the Ashburton lawyer who died in 1538, was the son and heir of William Ford a wealthy wool merchant of Chagford. Ford purchased the estate of Bagtor and remodelled the C14th manor there.
His children by his 4 wives were born there. His youngest son by his 4th wife was John Ford who in 1566 married Mary Pomeroy daughter of Hugh Pomeroy of Ingsdon- across the valley

Ingsdon Manor when it was a Convent & School for Girls in the 1903's

Ingsdon Manor lies above Bickington , on the other side a wide valley from Ilsington Village. The valley is transected by the Devon Expressway and nearby is the Stannary & Wool town of Ashburton which was a key stopping point for the horse drawn coaches travelling between Exeter and Plymouth, being roughly equidistant from both.

On the C19th map, here near to the Manor House was a place called Burn Farm.
Since the manor house was demolished Burn Farm has been renamed, Ingsdon House.

There were 2 lodges marked on the map of Ingsdon manor. Up the lane from the manor house entrance is Upper Ingsdon where, on the other side of the road, the map has marked ' lodge'.
No sign of the lodge remains today but there is what appears to have been a wide drive from Upper Ingsdon over the hill and down towards the manor house. seen here top left

The South Lodge was, until 2021, an ivy clad derelict , almost invisible when the Google mapping camera drove past in 2009. Since then its been restored & added to, as seen here left.

here

The manor house itself, after a long & chequered history was demolished and replaced with 'executive housing'

All that remains are the gate posts and the park with its walls.

Robert & Eliazabeth produced 2 sons of record
Sinclere and John Pomeroy the younger , later called "The Elder." who married and had sons.
Visitations gives Christopher as the only son of John & buried at Ilsington 15 Aug 1590 but records indicate that there were other sons Robert & Henry who became highly litigious.

AML who digs into chancery records & found there were more sons for John in Ingsdon - Robert, who was son and heir of John and another son Henry.

Robert inherited Burnes Place from John, his father. and said his grandfather had given Burnes Place "and other lands" to his father in 1500.

Over Ingesdon in now called Upper Ingsdon there is also Burn Farm and Burnes Place.

By one of those curious quirks of fate in 2016 I happened across a sale notice for BURNS PLACE in Islington -Having had great fun chasing around for details, & it was very interesting , wondering whether or not it had a role in the Pomeroy's mining interests in uncertain I finally realised it wasC19th and thus far too recent. It wasn't the right place. However Checking the map in 2021 I spotted a farm adjacent to Ingsdon Manor in the 19th C called Burn Farm -
THEN i noticed map dotted lines indicating driveways from Lodges and realise Ingsdon Manor had driveways each with a lodge.

Documents from AML : Chancery Charge and answers. Hugh Pomeroy vs Henry and Robert Pomeroy:

Hugh Pomeroy, grandson of Sinclere the eldest of Robert & Elizabeth sons claimed that Over Ingsdon had been illegally diverted from his inheritance. He kept up the Chancery suits his entire life. An iron mine with a processing plant was a valuable asset.

These suits caused the younger Robert to spend all of his money. His brother Henry gave evidence which defended his brother. They must have been successful often enough for the patrilineal heir to take them to Chancery. The law of the land was family land and it supported keeping the patrilineal lands together.

Robert Pomeroy & his wife Elizabeth Beaumont created an entail for their sons Sinclere & John Pomeroy in November 1481 giving themselves the manor of Ingdon for their lives.

Their Eldest son, Sinclere, the heir would inherit that estate, married Johanna Young but died before his father leaving his son John Pomeroy to became heir to his grandfather age 26 in 1518.

Calendars of the Proceedings in Chancery in the reign Elizabeth I 1558-1603

In 1542 Hugh Pome parted with the manor of Chillaton; 10 messuages, gardens, orchards, 300 acres of land, meadow, pasture, wood and heath.

Sold manor of Innelegh, Nether Innelegh, Innelegh Higher, Innelegy Seyntrudge, and Broadwood Kelly to John Peeyrson, 1554.

Secured from George Forde of Ilsington, the manor of Woodhuysshe and premises in Brixham. 1554.

Also 1552 purchased Kenn, Exminster Trusham, Islington, Huish, Kingsteignton.

He purchased woods and Lake Tenement in Cornwall of William Yarde of Wodelond. near Ashburton

1386-1558 about Hugh Pomeroy

Hugh Pomeroy Devon Date: 1547 Volume: 9 Page:156 Bundle: 1182 Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Procee... C 1/1094/100

Hugh, son and heir of John POMERY v. Oliver BENET.: Tenement in complainant's manor of Chillaton in Milton Abbot demised to defendant by Richard Pomerey.: DEVON. . Detailed description at item level Hugh, son and heir of John POMERY v. Oliver BENET.:

Date: 1538 - 1544

Hugh Pomeroy married Barbara, dau. of John Southcote of Indiho in Bovey Tracey, 5 Feb. 1543-44, at Bovey Tracy.
She died and was bur. 4 April 1563, at Ilsington. He married again. 2nd wife was an Agnes who died 1560.
Hugh died 7 was bur. 3 March 1602-3, at Ilsington. Will 6 Nov. 1602, pro. 27 May 1603. P.C.C. (Bolein 34.)

It was from this cadet line arose from a 3rd son of cadet line of the family at Ingsdon Manor in Ilsington on the edges of Dartmoor near Ashburton This was created in Ireland and became the lineage of Lord Harberton.

However with the advances in DNA it is beginning to look as if there may be other Pomeroy families that all connect back to a common ancestor and maybe the armorial tree. The hunt is ongoing. 2016 & we do have a DNA breakthrough that shows how the modern Pomeroy's link back to the armorial family
LAKE TENEMENT, WOODLAND. near Bovey Tracey

Cornwall. 372/1/4/4 1563 Contents: Bargain and sale

1 William Yarde of Wodelond, gent 2 Hugh Pomereoy of Dugysdon, Ilsyngton, esq Lake tenement, Woodland

Sir Philip Champernon. Annuity of £4 13s. out of the issues of cåertain lands and tenements which John Sowdon, John Skeyms, and Ric. Cocke now hold, with 4s. 8d. annual rent fromå a corn-mill, parcel of the manor of Ingesdon, in Ingesdon, Devon, late of John Pomery, deceased, during the minority of Hugh Pomery, son and heir of the said John ; with the wardship and marriage of the said heir.

Westminster, 3 July 25 Hen. VIII. Del. 4 July.—P.S. Pat. p. 2, m. 22.

Hugh Pomeroy died age 81 in 1602 - his Will was PROBATED in 1603.

To poor of Islington, Bovy Tracy, Ashburton, Highweek and Bickington.

To John Gilbert parcels of goods he had of mine when we went to "house keeping from Hengescott."
To Grace Gilbert, my daughter £10 ( youngest granddaughter & wife of John Gilbert of Bridgerule married at Bradford near Holsworthy in 12 Mar 1581)

To sons RICHARD AND JOHN: £20 apiece, and to the longest liver of them, all profit of my TIN WORKS which I have in Devon."
John also to have the lease of "my Mills" with appurtenances for 40 years... unless my heir buys him out."

To Thomas Pomeroy, son and heir, all other goods, cattle, chattel, etc..."

Antonnie Rowse, Thomas Rennell, John Tawe and Otes Peeter esq's and John Wolstone, overseers..

Colsworthy Farm and the view across the valley towards Bickington

Ilsington Church, School & Church house

This Cadet line at Ingesdon in Ilsington parish a manor near the village of Bickington just north of the busy Stannary and wool town of Ashburton in Devon.

This Ilsington branch of the family became extinct in the 17th century.

In 2012 we researched a group of Pomeroys who descended from the Ingsdon branch and moved to Landrake in Cornwall, their descendants going into the East India Company and moving to London.

The Pomeroy's who went to Ireland fared better. Some went off the West Virginia in the 1750’s and those who remained became a newly created armorial line the Ingsdon cadet branch
This is the current Viscounts Harberton line descending from the 3rd son of the cadet line at Ingsdon.