Pomeroy Family #515
Researching forward from Richard son of John Pomery by his 2nd wife Elizabeth Evens Bapt 7 Jan 1781 Werrington Devon /now in Cornwall
Youngest of 8 children Richard at some point left Devon & the countryside, possible after his father died . He went to London, where in 1807, age 26 , at on the Thames at Rotherhithe he married Devon girl Isott Webber, born 1788 West Teignmouth; The marriage was witnessed by Thomas Webber & Elizabeth Giles...more on that below.
They had one son Augustus Stephen Jeffrey Pomery born in 1818 in Stepney . In 1837 Augustus was married in Stepney to Sarah Georgiana Moore born Colchester 1813 .
He too worked at the East India Dock as a clerk where they started their family.
In 1846 Augustus changed the spelling of his name to Pomeroy & moved the family to Liverpool to work for Royal Albert Docks where he moved up the organisation .
Richard went to work at the East India Docks offices as a check clerk and remained there until he was retired. He died in Liverpool in 1859
His wife Issot had died of typhoid in 1850 in Stepney
St Mary Parish Rotherhithe Surrey south bank of the Thames Rotherhithe, or, as it was occasionally called, "Redriff,"
Worthy of note as the first place where docks were constructed for the convenience of London.
July 1 2021 just found - this might explain why Richard was there at that time. The Greenland Dock.
I think Richard might have gone to London via the port of Teignmouth which would explain how he met Issot Webber from West Teignmouth
For many years there was a brickwall regarding Richard Pomery. Then we found him in 1851 census - Died Liverpool 1859 Married Rotherhithe 1807 to Isott Webber born 1788 West Teignmouth who died of Typhus 1850 In Stepney -
Their only recorded child was
Augustus Stephen Jeffrey Pomery Born Stepney 1818 Married in Stepney 16 Sept 1838 to Sarah Georgiana Moore daughter of George Moore and his wife Sarah Hornblow in Colchester
He changed the spelling of the family's name to Pomeroy & moved to Liverpool to work for the Royal Albert Dock Company becoming Superintendent of Royal Albert Dock Offices Liverpool. Died Birkenhead 1884
Their Children were
Georgiana Augusta Pomeroy, their only daughter ,was born almost exactly a year later Stepney 8 Sept 1839 who married Dr George Shearer in West Derby in 1868. They went to China in 1869 where the first four of their seven children were born there including my grandfather James Augustus Shearer
They returned to Liverpool in 1875 where Dr George had a medical practice and gave lectures on botany at the Univerity of Liverpool . He was a friend of Robert Dick, the noted Victorian botanist , and, with his brother Professor William Shearer, contributed to the biography of Robert Dick. He was a member of the Linnean Society and knew Charles Darwin.
Dr George died in 1859 and Georgiana died in 1920
Augustus Frederick Brett Pomeroy Born Stepney 1841 married Elizabeth Jane Jackson 1867 St Pancras Middlesex sons Edgar Born 1869 Campbell born 1870 Augustus FB died of TB in 1871 shortly after his second son was born. His sons and his widow migrated to California in 1889
James Richard Webber Pomeroy Born Stepney 1845. Married in Calcutta to Eliza Culloden 1873 returned to England for the birth of their first child . He died of typhoid and pneumonia at the home of his brother the Rev Walter W Pomeroy in 1880
Harrison Albert Pomeroy Born 1850 Clerk of Holy Orders Married Mary Jane Irvine - Died 1927
their Daughter Mary Elsie Irvine Pomeroy born 1890 died unmarried 1967
Walter William Pomery Clerk of Holy Orders B 1855 married in 1884 to Martha Maria Wire d 1936. Became a Canon but had No Children Walter died 1913
Harrison Hornblow Pomeroy Born Liverpool 1847 Died in Infancy
Edmund Molyneaux Pomeroy b 1851 Liverpool Died in infancy
John Pomery Born 1855 Died in infancy
Marriage in Rotherhithe 1807 to Isott Webber born 1788 West Teignmouth; witnessed by Thomas Webber & Elizabeth Giles - i found this marriage in 1998 & wondered about these two witnesses for a long time.
I found some of this but never quite got a clear picture until
my good friend Jenny B looked & found them in 2018
Mary Giles in 1871 Census visiting the Liverpool home of Sarah Georgiana & Augustus Pomeroy.
She 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 . She had to be Elizabeth WEBBER!
She had married Joseph Giles in Stoke Damerel (Plymouth) in 1801.
Isott's father John had brother Thomas Webber ; was he the other witness ?
Elizabeth Webber OTP Marriage ( age 25 ) by Banns 11 Mar 1801at Stoke Damerel (Plymouth ) to Joseph Giles Master of the merchant ship Elizabeth
The Giles family were living in Stepney around the same time as Augustus S.J.Pomeroy was born and they remained friends as Mary Bertha Giles visited them in 1871.
Thomas Augustus Pearce Giles was seemingly given the name Augustus & families did sometimes give their children the name of a good friend. Thomas used his last christian name Pearce & in 1841 he shares a house with his presumably widowed mother and sister and an dock officer
1841 Census Globe Terrace, Stepney, London & Middlesex, England
Charles Twinning 30 B 1811 Middlesex, England dock officer ( ? East India Dock Company? )
Ann Twinning 30 B 1811 -
William Twinning 7 B 1834 Middlesex, England
Mary Twinning 5 B 1836 Middlesex, England
Elizabeth Giles 60 B 1781 -a widow of independent means
Pearce Giles son 25 B 1816 a tutor Middlesex, England tutor
Emily Giles dau 20 B 1821
Thomas A. Pearce Giles gave His children odd 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 at Lidford his wife and children are recorded at being in Stoke Damerel in 1851.
their children were
1. Percival Mordans Pearce b 1842 married Eliza Moore b 1837 died 1921 Jamaica
2. Caroline Emma Gray Giles 1845
3. Alfred Asen Giles b 1847
4. Jenrietta Edith 1851
5. Josephine Blaugh 1851 twin
6. Katherine Frances b 1852
7. Mary Bertha b 1854 d 1926 married 1874 to Luther Cone b 1842 d 1916
8. Edwin Bertram Giles born 1855- Gosport Hampshire
Georgiana Augusta Pomeroy,
b Stepney 8 Sept 1839
and
Dr George Shearer B Thurso Scotland 1836
married in West Derby, Liverpool in 1868.
The Shearers have a page of their own HERE
Augustus Frederick Brett Pomeroy Born 1841 married Elizabeth Jane Jackson 1867 St Pancras Middlesex
sons Edgar Born 1869 Campbell born 1870 Augustus FB died of TB in 1871 shortly after his second son was born.
For a while they lived with her father in law at Liscard Lodge then after his death in 1884 the widowed Elizabeth & her two sons now adults in about 1889 migrated to California More HERE
James Richard Webber Pomeroy Born 1845. Married in Calcutta to Eliza Culloden 1873 returned to England for the birth of their first child then returned to India for a while They had 4 children their father James died of typhoid and pneumonia in 1880.
1. James Pomeroy born & died 1875 Liverpool
2. Mabel Pomeroy born 1877 Calcutta Married 1896 Edward Moore 2 children
Cuthbert Grafton Moore born 1901
Hedley Grafton Moore born 1905 school master and amateur painter in Liverpool.
this Line descends to Pat Smith nee Moore
Paintings by Headley Moore on exhibition in Maritime Museum Liverpool 2009
3 .Walter Pomeroy born 1879 died 1920
4. Harrison Hornblow Pomeroy born 1880 Calcutta married 1907 to migrated to Australia 4 children
There are Descendants in Melbourne Australia
Harrison Hornblow Pomeroy & his colourful life