Richard's Daughter
Georgiana Augusta Pomeroy
who married
Dr George Shearer
https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwigs2/home
Before the Norman Conquest St Stephens was known as Lanscauestone, and across the valley to the south-east lay Dunhuet.
Launceston had a college of secular priests that flourished with its own mint and market, and a community thrived around it.
Dunhuet was of great strategic importance, standing on high ground and near the main crossing point into Cornwall .
Robert de Mortain built a wooden castle where he set up his court and administrative centre. This was replaced a stone castle in the 13th century.
The town grew in size around the castle at Launceston . First the market and then the mint operated from its old location until the end of the 12th century, later this transferred from Lanscauestone to Dunhuet as former settlement’s importance diminished & the latter’s increased.
In time Dunhuet became known as Lanscauestone, while the former settlement became known as St Stephens.
This was always an agricultural area although manganese was mined and limestone was quarried locally . In the past there were tanneries & a serge factory at Town Mills with woollen & wool combing establishments in the nearby in the parish of St Thomas-by-Launceston. Many of the women would have been employed in the making of straw hats since there was an abundance of straw in this farming area.
Richard's father John Pomery born in Lewannick in 1746 & maybe the John who was buried in Trewen on 8 Apr 1804.
Thus far I have found no record of Richard as an apprentice nor there is no indication as to when he left home but the death of his father may have been what prompted Richard to move away from the agricultural life & the countryside.
Spain declared War on England in December 1804 and the Napoleonic War were raging and Richard was was 23 years old.
Where he went and what he did is still unknown but he married in 1807 in Rotherhithe so he might have been working in the docks there, possibly as a clerk. His marriage to a girl from West Teignmouth and the witnesses might hold clues.
The 2 years later he found work at the newly opened East India Dock Company from 1809 as an extra check clerk ( recording /checking goods entries) in the Docks.From Aug 4th he was paid £1.11.6 ( a week?) and by 1815 he had been promoted to a permanent check clerk. By June 12 1827 he had been promoted to a 3rd clerk 3rd division in the General Office and on 8 August 1828 was a 2nd clerk 2nd division in the General Office. He was obviously doing well at this point because in 1829 he became a ships ledger clerk with a wage of £140 per annum.
He was pensioned off on 21st October 1853 when he was still a ships ledger clerk and earning £175 p.a. After being pensioned off he was paid a pension of £60 p.a.
19th century and the Census
1841 census 46 Green Street Stepney
Richard Pomeroy age 55 clerk
Issot age 50
Augustus age 20 son clerk
Sarah Georgina ( nee Moore) Dau. In Law age 20
Georgiana Augusta age 1 grand daughter
Mary Livermoor age 15 servant
His wife Issot died of typhoid in 1850 age 62 in Stepney. St Mary Parish ...
but then there was a brickwall . We knew quite a bit about his life but not where he originated from
until someone spotted the 1851 census
Once we broke the brick wall that had held researchers back for many years - we could look for his parentage ...Werrington in Devon
1851 Census Mitre Square, Saint James Dukes Place, City of London, London & Middlesex,
Daniel Simmons Head Married 48 1803 Porter Dedham, Essex, England
Sarah Simmons Wife 41 1810 - St Osyth, Essex, Eng Harriet Skipper Visitor Married 38 1813 Straw hat maker St Osyth, Essex, William Harder Visitor 4 1847 - St Osyth, Essex, England Richard Pomeroy Lodger Wido'd 70 1781 Ret. Clerk in W- India Dock born Werrington, Devon,
East India Dock entrance
Richard Pomery in Electoral registers:
1834 Holme’s Street Mile End, Old Town. (Only Pomeroy listed.)
1841 Green Street, Mile End, Old Town: 1841 see here
1842 Mile End Old Town: on Green Street
1845 Clarence Place
1851 Census: St James Dukes Place,
Green Street Stepney
Richard went to work at the East India Docks offices as a check clerk and remained there until he was retired. His wife Issot had died of typhoid in 1850 in Stepney & in 1851 he was still in London, Then his son took him to Liverpool the family home there where he died in in 1859
His SON Augustus Stephen Jeffrey Pomeroy also begun his working life employed by the East India Dock Company, as an extra check clerk in 1832 at a wage of £1.11.6 .
In 1838 in Stepney he married Sarah Georgina Moore. Dau. Of George Moore and Sarah Hornblow. and in 1841 was living with his parents in Green Street Stepney
In May 1839 Augustus's job was made into a permanent position (they obviously had to prove themselves in those days - or maybe it was waiting for dead man's shoes so that everyone could move up the ladder).
However Augustus was ambitious & had other ideas & on 24 July 1846 he resigned & moved right across the England to Liverpool to take up the job with Mersey Docks and Harbour Board at the Albert Dock in Liverpool where he would earning £100 p.a.
Liverpool Royal Albert Docks
SNIPPETS
The mid-1860s workers in London received the following wages for a 10-hour day and six-day week
:common laborers 3s. 9d
excavators wearing their own "long water boots" 4s. 6d
bricklayers, carpenters, masons, smiths 6s. 6d.engineers 7/6 (= £110 pounds/year) .
These wages reflect weekly pay in the mid- to late '60s (various sources listed below)
Mail Coach Guard ... 10/0 + tips
Female telegraph clerk ... 8/0
London artisans ... 36/0
London labourers ... 20/0
Farm hands ... 14/0
Sailors ... 15/0
Seaman on steamers ... 16/4
In better paid positions, particularly the professions, salaries were indicated in annual amounts.
Two positions for which information is available are Army Cornet ...£200/0/0 & Indian Civil Service officer ... £300/0/0
Annual Cost of Living for a senior clerk (1844)
Rent £25/0/0 per annum
Taxes £5/0/0
Savings £6/0/0
Maid £7/0/0
Coal for fires £6/5/0 for 5 tons
Candles and Wood £ 2/0/0
Tea £ 7/16/6 Sugar £ 6/14/2 Butter & Eggs £9/12/0 Meat £ 18/6/0 Fish £2/0/0 Vegetables £ 5/0/0
Beer £ 6/10/0
Washing woman soap and her meals. £6/13/0
Ironing and mangling £1/0/0
Clothing £23/6/0
Church and charity £3/10/0
Doctor £5/0/0
Misc. £1/8/0
Amusements £1/19/4.
Total OUTGOINGS £150/0/0 per annum