Because Webber is an ordinary name its very had to discover who his wife Mary was or where she lived and married John Webber

 ISSETT  Webber was baptised 1st OCT 1788 TO JOHN & MARY WEBBER at St James church west Teignmouth Bb

Her mother may have died at her birth ;
There was Mary Webber buried St Marychurch Torquay  5 Oct 1788 

Their marriage remains uncertain -  only this one comes anywhere near .

John Webber married Mary Tucker 28 Oct 1770 at Wolborough Newton Abbot  which  was some18 years before Issetts  baptism.   

How they met and what on earth they were doing in Rotherhithe remains unclear .  Richard may well have gone to West Teignmouth to work. I like to think he went there and stayed with the Pomeroy family in West Teignmouth and met Issot there. How else might they have met?  BUT I cannot prove it .

I have yet to discover how they got to London but as Teignmouth was a busy fishing port and trading ships went regularly along the south coast to London it seems reasonable to surmise they travelled by boat.

In our process of discovery we have checked the transcript parish registers for Werrington.  It is a small parish and there are relatively few entries.  The parish clerk extracted all  the Pomery's for us. We have his marriage and his death certificate and the census return where we finally found him.   

His date of christening 7 Jan 1781, concurs with the age he gives on the census. He died in 1859 at his son’s home Albert Dock House in Liverpool . We have been unable to find a Will for him in the will indexes at the Family Record Centre so were very interested in the list of will abstracts that Virginia Graham has transcribed. This proved not to have a will recorded for Richard. However his son Augustus Stephen  and his grandsons are included.

We have quite a lot of peripheral information about Richard which Pat had found in SOG and  other places .
We know where he lived and worked in London and Pat  has been tracing that with the various sources in London. We know when and where he died in Liverpool . The census return for 1851 fitted him so well that we are satisfied that it is him  and it led us to Werrington.

 Richard Pomeroy and Isott Webber were married in Rotherhithe, (London) on 20th Sept 1807.  Their only child , a son & my 3x great grandfather, Augustus Stephen Jeffery Pomery was born 2 August 1817, some 10 years after Richard and Issott were married.
Augustus Pomeroy  married  Sarah Georgiana Moore in 1838 with her father present at the ceremony .   She was daughter of a remarkable woman. Our 3 times great grandmother Sarah Hornblow  married 4 times ( once bigamously) and had 11 children. First marriage was to George Moore in 1810 by whom she had 3 children Mary Catherine in 1811, Sarah Georgiana in 1813 & John Cotton Moore.   In 1816, Sarah married again this time bigamously  her new ‘husband’ was  John Cadle. In 1820  with the fist 3 of their 6 children , they migrated to South Africa taking only Mary Catherine and leaving Sarah and John behind presumably with their father George Moore.
Augustus and Sarah Pomeroy had eight children and he too started out in the Docks in London , moving to Liverpool in 1846 where he changed the spelling of family name from Pomery to Pomeroy  and took up a clerical post with Royal Albert Docks Authority.
He went on to become Superintendent of the Offices and Receiver of Charges for the famous  Albert Dock of Liverpool, until he retired  to Liscard on the Wirrel .

In the census of 1881 we find him living in Fountains Lodge Liscard with his widowed daughter- in- law Elizabeth Pomeroy nee Jackson and his two grandsons Edgar and Campbell.  These two young men migrated to USA with their mother in 1889 and settled in the Oakland area of San Francisco..

where they appeared in the 1900 census

The marriage of Richard & Issot was witnessed by Thomas Webber and Elizabeth Giles (the Giles name appears later in the family as a guest in the house in the 1881 census.  Why they were in Rotherhithe is a mystery. However it is a port and this theme runs throughout this family history.
Isset or Issot Webber, was from West Teignmouth (another port) born in 1788 to John Webber and Mary. John's parents may have been William Webber and Dorothy Skinner who were married in Stoke Damerel in 1761. They had at least 3 sons Thomas, William and John, born between 1762 to 1766 and both parents appear to have been born in Morval Talland Looe area of Cornwall where there is a cluster of Pomery’s

East India Dock Company in 1803. A parliamentary act of that year created the East India Dock Company and granted it a 21 year monopoly for trading with the far east. The HEIC's existing facilities at Blackwall (the old Brunswick Dock which was used for fitting out and repairing ships) were enlarged and became part of the new East India Docks

Almost everything came to London via the docks and quays of the Thames: tea, china, drugs, muslins, cotton yarn, pepper and spices, silks, sugar, rum, coffee, ginger, gums, elephants' teeth, palm oil, wine, skins, hemp, iron, shipping masts, and of course people. In the 18th century, congestion on the waterways led to major dock building such as West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs (1802), and Surrey docks at Rotherhithe (1807)

The tea trade alone was worth £30 million per year with other goods traded through the dock including  spices, indigo, silk and Persian carpets. Spice merchants and pepper grinders were situated in the general vicinity of the dock, ready to receive the goods to process and sell.

In 1807, the Commercial Dock Company bought the Greenland Dock at Rotherhithe. It was used for the North European trade in timber, hemp, iron, tar and corn. The company eventually owned all the docks built at Rotherhithe over the following 70 years. These included: the Baltic Dock (1809) the East Country Dock/South Dock (1807) the Norway Dock (1811) the Albion Dock (1860) the Canada Dock (1876).

In June 2 2003. Annie went to the Devon Records Office and found Richard in the Bishops Transcripts and in the South West Studies Library she found more of the family in Werrington transcription.

Pat contacted the OLPC and by 2004 we had a message from the OLPC in Australia. Then we had a whole lot more..

The Pomerys of our family who appeared in Lewennick in 1720's  They came from nearby Trewen and then there is a blank space because DNA reveals they line came from Holne and Ashburton which is close to Ilsington and the cadet line there

Pat Smith nee Moore & Annie, who has taken the Pomeroy name,  are 3rd Cousins, and with Richard Anthony Pomeroy, called Tony, in Australia  share a four times great - grandfather  Augustus Stephen Jeffery Pomeroy (son of Richard  and Issot Pomery)

On the other side of the Atlantic Front Royal in Virginia are DNA cousins descended from Richard Pomeroy who migrated from Millstreet in Cork in Ireland .There  was Charles Wilson Pomeroy,(Chuck) who died in 2008 , whose family tree goes to Cork  in Ireland from about 1750 - one or more of our ancestors having gone there from Devon and Cornwall  and DNA reveals from the Ashburton & Holne  group who were children of younger sons of the Ingsdon armorial family in nearby Ilsington Parish .

In Australia there was a direct descendent from our immediate family , Richard Anthony (Tony) Pomeroy  who had been hunting for our four times great - grandfather Richard Pomery's origins for a very long time. In 2003  Pat posted a message on the POMEROLOGY guest book and within days there was a message to say that he was in the 1851 census.  Tony had also been paying genealogist to find the connection that brought the Hornblow name into the family for years without success. Before he died Annie found that connection which led to Sarah Hornblow our 3x great grandmother, and extraordinary woman

1-The Family in Liverpool 2- Migration to California

My friend Jenny B did some research and discovered Elizabeth was  daughter of Pearce Giles .....his name was actually Thomas Augustus Pearce Giles born twin to Thomas Richard Pearce Giles St Dunstans Stepney s/o Joseph Giles ( mariner RN) and wife  Elizabeth .

Mother has to be  Elizabeth WEBBER!  She married  Joseph Giles in Stoke Damerel 1801.

The other witness was Thomas Webber  & Isott's father John had brother Thomas Webber ;

Elizabeth Webber OTP Marriage ( age 25 ) by Banns 11 Mar 1801 at Stoke Damerel (Plymouth ) to Joseph Giles Master of

the merchant ship Elizabeth;  her possible Aunt was Elizabeth Webber Baptism 14 Dec 1770 Father William Webber Mother Dorothy West Teignmouth County simple entry without elaborations and  likely sister to her father John  and his brothers William and Thomas

TWINS Thomas Augustus Pearce Giles Born 25 Aug 1816 in Stepney s/o Joseph Giles. - Master mariner in Royal Navy and his wife Elizabeth.

Also there was Thomas Richard Pearce Giles  b  St Dunstans Stepney baptised on the same day. I suspect these were twins because Mary Bertha had twin siblings

Thomas  Augustus P Giles Married Maria Mooney Hill

It looks like Giles family were living in Stepney around the same time as Augustus S.J.Pomeroy was born and they remained friends.

Thomas Augustus Pearce Giles was seemingly given the name Augustus  possibly naming  baby for a good  friend.

Thomas  a dock officer  & used his last christian name Pearce - in 1841 he shared a house with his widowed mother and sister

1841  Census Globe Terrace, Stepney, London & Middlesex, England -

today post war development gives little clue as to what this was like.  

Charles Twinning 30 B 1811 Middlesex, England  dock officer  (did he know Richard Pomeroy as a clerk for the EID C ??  )

Ann Twinning 30 B 1811 -wife

William Twinning 7 B 1834 Middlesex, England

Mary Twinning 5 B 1836 Middlesex, England

Elizabeth Giles 60 B 1781 -independent means - widow

Pearce Giles son 25 B 1816 Middlesex, England  occupation tutor

Emily Giles dau 20 B 1821

the record doesn't say if they were tenants or visitors

Elizabeth Giles nee  Webber OTP of Stoke Damerell Marriage ( age 25 ) by Banns 11 Mar 1801  to Joseph Giles recorded on the certificate as Master of the  Ship Elizabeth - both signed their names , witnessed by Thomas Webber and  Marina May

Joseph Giles the Master his ship the ' Elizabeth'  -  died 1818  Index of Death Duty IR27/165 - executor of his Will  looks like Hannah Giles 

 Mr Joseph Giles Born 1758 son of Joseph Giles of Westlake in Ermington died age 60 buried July 19 1818 in Ermington, Devon, England

The family home an estate called  WESTLAKE  for which, in 1774, Joseph Giles paid parish dues of 1s /7d 1/4 farthing in 1774

Joseph Giles is a church warden

 Parish records also show  that in 1788  the parish clerk received from Joseph Giles £ 4/3/4 d for his bastard child by Ann Sanover 

Thomas  Augustus Giles, his son, used his name Pearce  & gave his children unusual names.   He was a civil servant who worked in the prison service .

Pearce Giles was an accountant at Dartmoor prison in 1851 and in 1871 was civil servant in the prison on the Isle of Wight . Died 1887.  When at Dartmoor prison in Lidford his wife and children are recorded at being in 52, George Street, Stoke Damerel, Devon in 1851.

The Giles children

Percival Mordans Pearce  b 1842 married Eliza Moore b 1837 died 1921 Jamaica ( mother in law's maiden name )

Caroline Emma Gray Giles  1845

Alfred Asen Giles b 1847

Jennietta Edith    b1851

Josephine Blaugh b 1851 twin

Katherine Frances b 1852

Mary Bertha b 1854 d 1926 married  1874 in New Chicago Kansas USA to Luther Cone b 1842 d 1916

Edwin Bertram  Giles born  1855-born Gosport Hampshire by 1881 he seems to have become a cab proprietor  living at 15, Willow Plot, Plymouth St Andrew, Plymouth, with wife Mary Anne & son Fred. 
By 1901 he is a hansom cab driver and groom ( horse drawn cabs ) with 3 more children

Stoke Damerel directory

Giles John, Shopkeeper, Quarry street. ; Giles Joseph, Brewer, Market street; & Giles William, Baker, 11 Fore street.
Stoke Damerel here  

Family Search tree 

Alfred Ernest Giles was listed as an insurance agent at 25 Maristow Avenue, Ford, in 1914.  [1914/D&C]

Ann  Giles, aged  72 years, of Paradise Row, was buried at Stoke Damerel Parish Church on March 2nd 1836.  [DFHS/CD004]

Ida Giles, of Saint Austell, daughter of a Gunner's Mate, Royal Navy, was an inmate of the Royal British Female Orphan Asylum in July 1894.

Mary Giles, aged 77 years, of Granby Street, was buried at Stoke Damerel Parish Church on April 18th 1828.  [DFHS/CD004]

Mary Giles, aged 75 years, of the Workhouse, was buried at Stoke Damerel Parish Church on September 2nd 1830.  [DFHS/CD004]

Mary Ann Giles was listed as having lodgings at Mutton Cove in 1852.  [1852]

John Giles, shopkeeper, was listed as resident at 20 Quarry Street  in 1852.  [1852]

William Giles, baker, was listed as a resident of 11 Fore Street in 1830.  [1830]

William Giles, aged 80 years, of Charlotte Street, was buried at Stoke Damerel Parish Church on November23rd 1836.  [DFHS/CD004]