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WEYMOUTH in DORSET was originally called Melcombe Regis & it was here that the C14th Black death arrived in England .
Carried in a cargo of woollen cloth from Genoa the deadly infection spread rapidly across England
causing the deaths of 40% of the population between 1346 & 1353.
It returned in 1361 & this time causing the death of a further 20% of the population.
Between then & 1666 there was hardly a year without some palgue deaths.
Social change in the C14th, caused by the huge reduction in population was inevitable. The men who worked on the land began to demand payment for their toil from those who owned the land & the fuedal system, which had governed England for centuries, began to breakdown.
For a long time the rats were blamed but more recent research indicates it was more likely to have been the lice that infested the rats and the people as well as every dwelling transmitted the disease that killed them so rapidly & so horribly.
The worst outbreaks of the Bubonic or Pneumonic plague in England was the Great Plague of London in 1665–1666,
Bubonic Plague still occurs in some parts of the world, with over 80% in USA ! but never with such devastaing effect because today antibiotics can cure it.
Weymouth was the largest port on that part of the coast & is some 20 miles from Beaminster where several Pomeroy families settled
As fishing town with shipbuilding, sail-making, and rope-making, and seaport with considerable coastal trade, it also had foreign trade, chiefly with America and the Mediterranean The principal export was Portland stone quarried from nearby Portland Bill, used in many public buildings in London including St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace.
ROYAL ANNE a 96-gun 1st Rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, Built at Woolwich Dockyard by Christopher Pett completed by Jonas Shish. as ' the Andrew' & launched in 1670 she was rebuilt & renamed HMS Royal Anne in 1703 and broken up in 1727.
1770 WILLIAM POMERY Captain of HMS ROYAL ANNE - with his brother Thomas Pomeroy chursurgeon, on board .
Colonel Edward Popham & Colonel Richard Deane were appointed by Parliament as the first Generals at Sea and Commissioners for the Admiralty and Navy. After Popham's death in 1651 he was succeeded in 1652 by General George Monck, later made Duke of Arbemarle
PCC Will of 13 feb 1770. his brother Thomas POMEROY, was chirugeon of Weymouth & Melcombe Regis,
brother Administrator with Charles LANGRISH, [illegible] of Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 13 Feb 1709/10 DA/A/1710 39I found Pomeroys living in Weymouth & Melcombe Regis inland at Ryme Intrinseca & at Bere Hackett in Dorset some 25 or 30 miles inland from Weymouth .
14 JUN 1646 William was baptised at Beer Hackett, son of SAMUELL POMERY -
born during the Civil War Period he would have been 20 in 1666 and the Anglo Dutch wars.
The Will of Anthony SMITH - 24 April 1760 West Lulworth Dorset -(near Swanage & Weymouth).....Rent due to me from William Pomeroy of Greenwich in the County of Kent for my Two Houses in Greenwich aforesaid And also all Moneys due to me from the Custom House at Weymouth for Seizures Sallary or otherwise
The earliest BMDs for Pomeroy in Melcombe Regis / Weymouth
Pomroy John marriage to Edith 1695 not in FMP
Pummery John son of John Bb 18 Dec 1695 Melcombe Regis Dorset
Pummery Ann dau of John Bb 5 June 1697 Melcombe Regis Dorset
Pomery Leonard son of John Bb 2 Sept 1702 St Mary;s Melcombe Regis Dorset
Pomeroy Linard son of John died 24 Nov 1709/ Melcombe Regis Dorset
Pomroy Edith wife of John buried 14 Oct 1721 Melcombe Regis
Pomroy John married Elizabeth Samways 26 May 1724 Melcombe Regis with Radipole
Pomroy Edith dau of John Bb 22 April 1725 Melcombe Regis
Pomeroy Thomas married Mary Russell Bb 4 June 1706 at Buckland Ripers,
Pomeroy Richard son of Thomas & Mary Bb 23 Oct 1707 Melcombe Regis
Pomeroy Esekiel son of Thomas & Mary Bb 24 Feb 1709 Melcombe Regis
Pomeroy Thomas son of Thomas & Mary Bb 24 Nov 1710 Melcombe Regis
Pomroy Tammey dau of Thomas BB 23 March 1713 Melcombe Regis ,Dorset
Pomroy Ann dau of Thomas Bb 27 Feb 1715
Pomroy Richard son of Thomas 15 Sept 1718 Burials
Pomroy Ann 1717 Burial Dorset, England
Pomroy Mary wife of Thomas Buried 16 Oct 1731 Melcombe Regis, Dorset
Pomroy Thomas marriage to Susanna Moors 1733 Melcombe Regis ,Dorset
Pomroy Ann dau of Susanna Bb 1734 Melcombe Regis
Pomroy Thomas burial 26 Oct 1738 Melcombe Regis with Radipole, Dorset
Pomroy Thomas junior burial 26 Oct 1739
Pomroy Nanny (Ann) burial 8 Dec 1740 Melcombe Regis Dorset, England
Pomroy An 10 Jan 1722 married Joseph Webb Melcombe Regis with Radipole, Dorset
Pummery John married Grace Swayne dec 1692 Whitchurch Canacorum
Edith Pomeroy married Richard Dunsterville 6 June 1748 in Wyke Regis
Weymouth
Harbour entrance today
The Olde Town Hall
Dorset PCC
WILL of POMEROY Robert of Knighton/ son Robert POMERY,death 22 Jul 1657 folio 169
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beer Hackett like this:
BEER-HACKETT, a parish in Sherborne district, Dorset; on the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, near Yetminster station, 5 miles SE by S of Yeovil. It includes the hamlet of Knighton; and its Post Town is Yetminster, under Sherborne.
903 Acres, Rated property, £1,024. Population., 96. Houses, 16. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory & a church in need of repair.
possible the same place as Samuel POMEROY of Knighton buried 21-Mar-1697 Netherbury
DENNYS Jonas of Waymouth/Weymouth/ Grantee John POMERY, guardian of Thomazine DENNYS, daughter of the deceased, during her minority and that of Dorothy, Frances and Elizabeth DENNYS, also daughters of the deceased DATE 17 May 1646
John Pomeroy Bb 10 May 1701 son of William Pomeroy in Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset, around 25 miles from Weymouth
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