Samuel Pomeroy

Samuel Pomeroy a contentious gentleman
The claim that Samuel Pomeroy' was of the Brixham Pomeroy armorial tree is probably unfounded
or at very least the connection point was misrepresented. 

Landed ESTATES

Claraghmore

Note from Harriett -
Pallice, Pallis, Pallas and other variations occur in a few places in Ireland. The Wexford one appears to be a town land but I think that the Co.Cork one applied to the house and estate. Pallas of the Holmes Pomeroy family is about 5 miles west of Mallow in North Co. Cork.
The last of that family was Amelia who married Robert Phayre of Co. Wexford. A marriage settlement deed of 1811 when her son married mentions lands in Co. Cork that came to him from Amelia Holmes Pomeroy but does not specify Pallas among the various town lands.

Grove-White records many of the larger estates of North Cork and says that Pallas was also known as Park. ( One of my school mates in the distant past came from Palace, near Bantry, Co. Cork)

I found Pallice  Co. Wexford by looking for Griffith Valuation on www.askaboutireland.com  This valuation was done about 1850 prior to establishing local rates on land instead of tithes. Maps of the locations can be examined though personally I find them very difficult.
As far as I can see Pallas is in the north of the county near the border of Wicklow.                            

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 It is said that Arthur Pomeroy presented the College of Heralds in Ireland  with family documents  that demonstrated that Samuel Pomeroy was a son of Edward Pomeroy and Wilmot Peryam.  Based on this evidence the first Viscount Harberton was created, descendants of whom still carry the title. 

The evidence    http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_harberton_t2954-2.pdf

However there has long been a dispute over this pedigree . Both sides of this tree descend from Edward Pomeroy and Margaret Bevill.    One side comes down from  the primary son, the other from a 3rd son of  cadet side

There is mention of a John Pomeroy of St Cleer but there is NO  Arthur in the cadet line of Collaton Manor 

AJP input

John of St Cleer 1618 could be a misreading of St Kewe or St Kew . I have extensively researched this tree, and that family had connections in St Kew.    On the other hand St Cleer is only 4 miles from St Neot  His  Will CLEARLY relates to the Collaton Manor family. John was brother Andrew Pomeroy of Collaton -  

Observation regarding the Will off John Pomeroy  of (St Cleer)  in 1618.  He was 2nd son of William Pomeroy and his spouse  Mary Bevill. He had brothers Edward & Andrew and a sister Jane Caville - His uncles were Edward & his wife Julian Forster, whose son Matthew in mentioned;   John who married Mary Slanning  and had children in Plympton ; Wilmot Incledon;  Mary Leigh & Thomasin Pitford .  John died without living issue or a spouse.

In his Will of 1618 he appears to have no connections with Ireland although if there was an IPM that might reveal if he did have any Irish connectionsVisitations says he DIED in Ireland  16 June 1618 -  with the army - whether or not he bought property or married  is unknown.

John of Collaton Manor - Will of 1618   son of William Pomeroy & his wife Mary Beville

 Will of John Pomeroy of St. Cleere, Cornwall, gent., June 16, 1618:

To William,(d 1622)  son of my brother Andrew Pomeroy, Esqr.(d 1639), chattle lease called Bellensan in Mawgan in Meneage which I had of Elizabeth Meggs, widow, deceased.

To Jane Cavell, wife of William Cavell of St. Kewe, Esq., my sister, £40.

To Mary Vivian, wife of John V'ivian, of St. Colomb the Higher, Gent.,£20.  (daughter of William Cavill by wife Jane Pomeroy - Johns sister )

To Joane Cavell, daughter of the said Wm. Cavelle, £20.

To Anne Pomeroy, daughter of Andrew Pomeroy, £20. (wife of Peter Jenkyn 1628)

To Mathew Pomeroy, son of Ellis(Edward) Pomeroy deceased, £10.  (died 1634)

Residue to my brother, Andrew Pomeroy, executor.

Witnesses Pascowe Vivian, Pascoe Vivian, Junr., Richard Vivian.


The pedigree Edward Pomeroy and Wilmot Perryman  has an Arthur, in a pedigree lodged in Ireland he has a brother Samuel. No RECORD FOUND  in Devon.. I could not find Samuel said to have been born in 1620 in Brixham, so before the 'absences ' cause by the Civil War; 

In 2011 AJP went to DRO and actually searched all the published parish transcriptions for Brixham as well as the microfiche - twice  I found no sign of Samuel HOWEVER the other children of the Edward & Wilmot  marriage are there.

The Ingsdon line has John, 3rd son of Thomas Pomeroy & his wife Elizabeth Hengscot of Bradford. John married Mary Seccombe in 1626. This record AJP found  that marriage in 1621 in Lynton North Devon - see foot of page-Their children were Mary who died as a child, Dorothy B 1631 married Sir James Langham and moved in illustrious circles  &  Arthur became Dean of Cork.  His grandson, son of John who was Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Viscount Harberton (16 January 1723 – 9/11 April 1798) Another interesting person with Irish Connections has been subject to the scrutiny of AML . Mary Slaughter wife  of Thomas Pomeroy 


Charles Wilson Pomeroy’s research the 1970's  found :

 "Another early Pomeroy visitor to Ireland was John Pomeroy of  St. Clear, Cornwall, (the second son of William Pomeroye and  Mary Bevill of Colliton in Devon) died in Ireland. His will of 16 June 1618 was probated 12 March 1619 P.C.C. (Parker 49)

No further record or accounting of children could be found and  since he willed all his estate to other relatives, it is assumed that he died childless."

Falley, Margaret Dickson, Irish and Scotch-Irish   Ancestral Research  p.150

  Falley gives abstracts obtained from the Genealogical Office  in Dublin. This seems to come from pedigrees worked out from  Wills by somebody in the G.O. in the past.

 G.O. 205 Will Pedigrees, Vol 3 pp. 112-115

               Draft pedigree of Pomerai; afterward  Pomeroy..................................................

                 "In addition, the issue of grandchildren of Valentine Pomeroy  of East Ogwell, are recorded and on this is a faint pencilled  addition affiliating Samuel Pomeroy of the County of Cork to  Edward/Edmund Pomeroy, brother of Valentine Pomeroy. There is also a  trick of arms, Pomeroy, quartering Valletort, Bevill and   Collaton.

The connection of Samuel of Pallice  to Brixham and Edward & Wilmot Pomeroy was falsified .Alma LaFrance in 2018  has done extensive research on this subject, the results of which will in time appear on her site Pomeroy ConnectionsOn page 116 is a pedigree (a continuation of that on   p. 113) showing the affiliation of Edward Pomeroy (brother of Valentine Pomeroy) to Sir Thomas Pomeroy. A tentative affiliation line links Samuel Pomeroy of Pallice, Co.Cork to this Edward Pomeroy.

Details of Samuel Pomeroy's issue are given..............

                 Page 117 gives the pedigree of Colleton in Devon; five generations, down to William Pomeroy aged 14 in 1620.

It is stated that John Pomeroy (uncle of this William & his wife Mary Bevile of the Collaton Manor  in Newton Ferrers branch) died in Ireland, having come over (briefly in the English military forces)  with Arthur Chichester, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and that  his son Arthur was Dean of Cork."

                 G.O. 243 Will Pedigrees Vol 21 pp. 304, 305 "p. 304 contains pedigrees based on the will of Samuel Pomeroy of Pallice, Co. Cork. dated 1703.............

                 p. 305 contains a pedigree showing the descendants of Rev. Arthur Pomeroy, Dean of Cork 1672 for three generations (his grandson Arthur Pomeroy was created Lord Harberton).

A line which affiliated The Rev. Arthur Pomeroy to John Pomeroy of Devonshire (son of William Pomeroy and Mary Bevill) has been crossed out as has a line indicating that the Rev. Arthur Pomeroy was a brother of Samuel Pomeroy of Pallice, Co. Cork"

      Q        **    Why does John's will 1619 not leave a legacy to the Rev. Arthur if he was his son as in GO 205? And in G.O. 243 the line of affiliation Rev. Arthur / John crossed out, also crossed out the line Rev. Arthur/Samuel as brothers. ??