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1544 Richard Pomeroy
Richard Pomeroy, born 1492, grandson of Henry, Baron Pomeroy & his 1st wife Alice Raleigh.. by their 4th son Sir Thomas Pomeroy , Knight , of Cheriton Fitzpayne & much younger wife Agnes Kelloway who later became wife of Thomas Bowring of Bowringsleigh judge & Lord Chief Justice of Ireland .
Richard, their son, became a merchant in Totnes who Ist married to Eleanor Coker & had children ( NOTE they were not the parents of Etwyd or Eltweed Pomeroy of Beaminster .)
Richard's 2nd wife was Anne Wykes Arture
Sir Thomas Arture of Clapton in Gordeno, near Bristol & Anne, a daughter of William Wykes, were married 1539. Sir Thomas died in 7 October 1543 by which time there were 3 children & another expected. The widowed Anne, now with 4 children, married again in May 1544.
Her 2nd husband RICHARD POMEROY, was overseer of the Will of Agnes Wyke , Anne's mother, & successful & influential Totnes merchant. She came to the marriage with a dowry of £100 and moiety (share) of the manor of Henley in Clapton in Gordeno .
Richard Pomeroy, born 1492, grandson of Henry, Baron Pomeroy & his 1st wife Alice Raleigh.. by their 4th son Sir Thomas Pomeroy , Knight , of Cheriton Fitzpayne & much younger wife Agnes Kelloway who later became wife of Thomas Bowring of Bowringsleigh judge & Lord Chief Justice of Ireland .
Richard, their son, became a merchant in Totnes who Ist married to Eleanor Coker & had children ( NOTE they were not the parents of Etwyd or Eltweed Pomeroy of Beaminster .)
Richard's 2nd wife was Anne Wykes Arture
Sir Thomas Arture of Clapton in Gordeno, near Bristol & Anne, a daughter of William Wykes, were married 1539. Sir Thomas died in 7 October 1543 by which time there were 3 children & another expected. The widowed Anne, now with 4 children, married again in May 1544.
Her 2nd husband RICHARD POMEROY, was overseer of the Will of Agnes Wyke , Anne's mother, & successful & influential Totnes merchant. She came to the marriage with a dowry of £100 and moiety (share) of the manor of Henley in Clapton in Gordeno .
Richard the wealthy & influential Totnes merchant held Linridge Estate in Bishopsteignton which he sold in 1550 to Sir Andrew Dudley , the younger brother of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland. When Queen Mary Tudor, Bloody Mary, came to the throne the Dudley's were accused of rebellion and high treason for their part in resisting Marys claim to the throne and installing the unhappy 9 days queen Jane Grey, They &stood trial in August 1553. and were condemned but after his brother John’s execution the Queen pardoned Andrew . He died a free but sick man in 1559
As 103M-0/T/2 1550 Quitclaim : Richard Pomeroy, esq., a merchant of Totnes & his son & heir Henry Pomeroy, gent., to Sir Andrew Dudley. Manors of Bishopsteignton, Lyndridge and Radway, rectories of Bishopsteignton and Radway and all lands and tenements there.
The Church of St. Michael faces the house and was built by William Artur - its first priest was John Arture
Most of the records here were found by AML
Somerset. Record Office 1474-1687
Regarding North Wyke, "One messuage and four furlongs of land in North Wyke.
3799M-0/ET/2/36 Date: 1376 Week.
Grant for life. John of la Pomeray son of Henry of la Pomeray to
2. Stephen ate Brygg 3799M-0/ET/2/37
Date: 1396 Week. Lease for 60 years; John of la Pomeray knt., and Johanna his wife: to 2. Thomas Glaas:
c 1/944 Date 1538-1544: Somerset. This is sister of Anne, daughter of William: She married Humphrey Barnehous.
Humphrey BARNEHOUS, husband of Alice, daughter of William Wykes of Nynehead, v. William WYKES, son and executor of the said William.:
Money promised to complainant on his marriage by the said William, who died possessed of the manor of Withiel Florey (Withyll) and lands there and in Ilchester, Uphill, Matcombe (i.e. Mackham, near Dunkeswell ?), and Hemyock.:
circa 1480 Elizabeth Pomeroy a daughter of Sir Richard & his 2nd wife Elizabeth Densill married William Barnhowse of Kingstone House near Totnes
SOMERSET & DEVON.
Note: 1504 Sir Richard Pomeroy (c 1441-1496) had a daughter Elizabeth, who married William Barnhowse. They had two daughters the eldest Agnes, b c 1510 married John Rowe a Totnes lawyer who nearly bankrupted himself making improvements /building a new manor house at Kingston in Staverton
Their other daughter Margaret Barnhowse was disowned for marrying a Cruwys without her fathers permission
Luttrell Family of Dunster Manustcipts
DD\L/P37 Series Box 37. Repository Somerset Heritage Centre Ref No DD\L/P37/60
Title Deeds concerning lands in Colyton, east Devon.
Description 37/60/1 Conveyance of lands etc in Northcote in Inworthy in the hundred of Blaketoryton and Shaketail Morecokkeeshayes Envorland and Trehill in the Hundred of Colyton co. Devon.
1 Joan widow of John Crakeham, daughter and heir of John Luttrell
2 George duke of Clarence, Thomas lord of ?Matrefas, lord John Arundel Kt, William Cortenay Kt, Thomas Selanger Kt, Philip Courtenay Kt, Humphrey Canberry, Richard Pomeroy, Robert Palmer, Richard Chichester, John Toke, John Hayes, Nicholas Stukele, esquires, Nicholas Southcote, Richard Ayer, Robert Sporeway and Thomas Boys, gents.
Seal: broken [as next]. Morecokkeshayes 18 Feb 1475
Walton in Gordano - 12 S.W. of Bristol - overlooking the village are the remains of Ralph de Mortimer's castle which later was held by the Seymours, Thymes, and Richard de Walton.
Eastern in Gordano 7 N.W. of Bristol at the mouth of the river Avon where it flows into the Severn estuary
Weston in Gordano 9 miles N.W. of Bristol, The ancient courthouse, for many generations the seat of the Perceval family,
The river Severn had only 2 bridges crossing its lower reaches until 1960. One at Tewkesbury and a lower one at Gloucster. The 1st Severn suspension bridge was built in the 1960's
EAST DEVON CONNECTIONS
Strowthames turns out to be a Strowbridge property -Streethaynes near Colyton in East Devon a few yards down a country lane from Howberhaynes the Strowbridge family home
The view of Howberhayne Near Colyton in East Devon
Clapton is in the Doomsday Book listed as the smallest manor in the Gordeno valley - with 23 males it was more populous than Portishead which had only 14 males (women didn’t count ).
During the eleventh and twelfth centuries the manor of Clapton passed to various Lords and Bishops to be held by William Artur of Clapton in the reign of Henry III (1216 -1272)
It passed to his descendants until the C 16th, when it passed by marriage to the Wynters family.
The first document relating to the manor and the church is an agreement dated 1226 between William, son of Arthur de Clopton and Richard, the powerful Abbott of Keynsham. There are six Gordano villages,Portbury, Portishead, Tickenham, Wraxall and Clevedon and the Gordeno manors
A Glimpse into life in the C 16th
RECORD a receipt Of 1539 Thos. Arthur of Clapton, esq., for 100 marks paid him by Agnes Wykes, widow at the hands of Wm. Wykes, gent.her son, in satisfaction of the marriage portion of her daughter Anne who is to marry Thomas
Anne Artur nee Wykes daughter of Willam Wykes of Nynehead had three children by Thomas and when he died in 1543 Anne was expecting their fourth child . She also had a brother William Wykes.
1541 Of Thomas Arture of Clapton, esq., for £5 paid him by Wm. Wykes (exor.) his brother-in-law in part payment of 100 marks bequeathed to Anne his wife by his father-in-law Wm. Wycke
1543 Of Anne Arthur, widow, for £40 paid her by Wm. Wykes her brother, one of the exors. of the Will of their father Wm. Wykes, in part payment of the 100 marks bequeathed her by her father
Thomas Artur did what most landed gentry did and acquired lands after Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monastaries -
The Priory of St. Mary Overy, Southark, held the manor of Wexham, (Buckinghamshire.) and was dissolved in 1539.
In 1540 Thomas Artur and his wife Anne were granted Wexham Manor and also land and woods in Wexham with a farm called "Woodhouse",owned by the Priory of Merton in Surrey. His son John Arthur had possession before 1562-and died in 1606.
Edmund Artur, son & heir of John, conveyed Wexham to Edward Woodward in 1610
Anne Wykes's mother was Agnes Strowbridge Wykes, lso wrote a Will. dated July 30 1552, proved Aug 17 1554.
July 30th, 1552. Agnes Wykes, widow, late the wife of William Wykes of Nynhedflorye co. Somerset, esquier, deceased. My body to be buried in the churche of Nynheed.
To Alice Wykes my daughter £100, Thomas Wykes my son 2 oxen,
Androwe Wykes my son 2 oxen, Johan wife of Androw Wykes £40. William Wykes son of Androwe Wykes 20s., Anne Wykes daughter of Androwe Wykes .10,
John Wykes my son 2 oxen, Elizabeth Wykes wife of John Wykes 2os., John Wykes son of John Wykes 2Os., Alice Wikes daughter of John Wykes 2Os., Elizabeth Wykes daughter of Androwe Wykes 2os.,
my servant Elizabeth Combe one cow, Alice Wekes my daughter if that she be not married before my death my ground called Stowthames, and if she be, I bequeath the same to Adam Wykes my son. To Henry Wykes an ox, Henry Wikes a fetherbed, my servant Joane Norrice a cow;
Richard Pomerie esquier £6 13s. 4d. Adam Wykes son of John Wykes 4 shape ( sheep),
John Wykes son of Henry Wykes an ox ; John Wykes the younger, son of John Wykes the elder 4 sheep. The residue to Adam Wykes my son (executor).
Overseer : Richard Pomerie, esq . Witnesses : Richard Pomerye, esq , Andrew Wykes, gentleman, Laurence Porter, James Sparke, Hugh Evans, Richard Dudrige and Thomas Michell vicar there. Proved August 17th, 1554.
Agnes Wykes children were ADAM her eldest son and the heir, her executor ALICE, -THOMAS JOHN WYKES married to Elizabeth with children John, Adam and Alice, HENRY her stepson married with sons John, & ? Henry. ANDREW her stepson married to Joan with children Ann, William, Elizabeth
RICHARD POMEROY, Esq her son in law was Overseer of that Will.
There is no mention of daughter Anne Pomeroy nee Wykes widow Artur and one wonders why. Anne had married Richard Pomeroy Esq in 1544 , the overseer of her mother's Will .
There is a record of a Richard Pomeroy born in Clapton in Gordano in 1550 seven years after their marriage. Its possible that Anne died either in childbirth in 1550 ( unhappily a common occurrence) or in the years before her mother made her 1552 Will.
Property was everything
In 1550 Sir Thomas Arture mentions his manor "up north" called "Northweston."- North Weston is a village in the North Somerset between Portishead and Weston-in-Gordano and very close to the house at Clapton in Gordano. At the north end of North Weston village is Gordano School. To the west of the village lies Weston Big Wood. North Weston was historically a hamlet in the parish of Portishead. In 1993 the parish was united with Portishead.
https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwigs2/home
Weston Big Wood dates from the iron age is a 37.48 hectare woodland west of the town of Portishead, North Somerset.
A valuable resource in a time when all ships as well as most houses were built of timber
This woodland is now a nature reserve and SSSI (a Site of Special Scientific Interest, ) After the manor of North Weston was sold to the City of Bristol in 1637, marker stones were placed to mark a boundary across the woodland.
BRISTOL
An ancient Port & borough in 1545 Bristol had a population of about 11,000 Its fee-farm of £100 formed parcel of the jointure of each of Henry VIII’s queens, and Bristol believed that it enjoyed a privileged connexion with each successive queens. When Henry VIII's visited Thornbury Castle in 1535, he received only provisions his wife Anne Boleyn was given a gilt cup containing 100 ounces of gold.
History of Parliament
'Although Bristol was amenable to pressures from outside, it did not return strangers to Parliament.'
Background
The 1542 Will of Sir Thomas Artur put his brother-in-law in charge of his children by Anne.
The children were John Artur the son and heir, Thomas Artur, George Artur and Anne, his daughter. Thomas Artur died some time in 1553 and the Will was probated in 1544.
Thomas Lansden was husband of Thomas's sister Elizabeth Artur; MP , a Bristol Merchant & haberdasher he was given the charge of the 4 children with an income from Clapton to pay expenses. He had sometime before 1542 borrowed £70 for capital from his brother-in-law.
M.P. Lansden had a house on the Bridge & later one in Temple Street, Bristol..He married twice, had 4 children and was twice elected MP for Bristol
Richard Pomeroy Esq widower of Eleanor Coker married Anne Wykes widow Artur in 1544
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7497599
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceeds. C 1/1254/43
Richard HOPKYNS and Anne his wife, daughter of Thomas Arthur, esquire, deceased, v. Thomas HORNER, knight, feodary of Somerset. (Feudal tenant )
Thomas Horner MP was in dispute with Richard Hopkyns and his wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Arthur, about a legacy payable out of the manor of Clapton He was a merchant , a haberdasher & MP for Bristol .
Hopkyns appears to be of a merchant family' William Hopkyns may be his brother or his son & father of John Hopkins MP, a fishmonger & moneylender privateer. Privateering, legalised piracy, was rife during this time
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceeds. C 1/1256/46
Richard POMERYE, esquire, and Anne his wife, late the wife of Thomas Arture, v. John ARTURE, son and heir of the said Thomas.: the Annuity promised to the said Anne in lieu of dower.: SOMERSET.
Richard Pomeroy Esq seems to have been involved with the Artur family prior to the marriage of Sir Thomas Artur in 1539. Certainly by the time Anne's mother, Agnes, died in 1553 he was a significant part of the family . Married to Anne for 10 years and overseer of the Will of Agnes Wykes nee Strowbridge in 1552.
Richard POMERYE, esquire, and Anne his wife, late the wife of Thomas Arture,
Arture, v. George Forde son and heir of John FORDE.: Lease of lands (described) in the manor of Little Totnes, now claimed by John, earl of Bath.
DEVON.. Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceedings 01 January 1544 - 31 December 1551 Richard POMERYE, esquire, and Anne his wife, late the wife of Thomas Arture,
...Arture, v. John ARTURE, son and heir of the said Thomas.: Annuity promised to the said Anne in lieu of dower.
SOMERSET Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceedings 01 January 1544 - 31 December 1551. R ichard PO[MERYE] and Anne his wife, late the wife of Thomas Arture, v. Thomas
...Arture, v. Thomas HORNOR, knight.: One-third of the manors of Clapton and Weston-super-Mare assigned to the said Anne as dower.: SOMERSET. Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceedings, 01 January 1544 - 31 December 1551
The Athur Family- have a long heritage -in North Somerset along the coastal plain of the Bristol Channel.
Sir THOMAS ARTUR M.P. for Somerset in 1397 son and heir of Richard Artur of Clapton in Gordano and his wife Isabel, daughter of Roger Turtle a merchant of Bristol. He died intestate - probated by 31 Oct. 1404 and was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son, John.
Medieval Soldier - Thomas Arthur Esquire Man-at-arms was in an Expedition to France under Lord William Botreaux, commanded by Henry V in 1415
Sir John Artur married Alice dau of Lord James Berkeley in 1422 their children were
Sir Richard Artur - whose daughter Agnes married Sir Richard Percival who held Nynhead Flories ,Withele Flories, Avele, Bridcot & Weston in Gordano- he died 1433-36 his son Sir Thomas Artur Knt married a daughter of Kenn of Kenn and produced John - Thomas was killed in France
John Artur who inherited the manor from his father Thomas and married Margaret Boteler of Badminton d 1539
Thomas Artur –married Anne Wyke of Nynehead in 1539 and had four children before he died around 1543
Edmond Artur was married 1559 Nov 22 to Elizabeth James
Parish record have Edmund Artur et Elizabetha James vicessimo quinto novembris 1559 - died without issue
Isabel Artur & Julianne who married Richard Mead of Wraxell and had children
Margaret Artur, married Roger PORTER of Newent and, Somerset.
Elizabeth Artur married Thomas Lansden MP circa 1533, and had 4 children. A Bristol merchant he traded as a haberdasher, around 1542 he borrowed £70 for capital from his brother-in-law, Thomas Arthur. He was twice elected MP. Married twice.
( details from The History And Antiquities Of The County Of Somerset: by Rev John Collinson -
survey performed by Edmund Rack) THE WILL of Thomas Artur: (Arthure) Thomas Arture, husband of Anne Wykes
He died 1543 and requested that he was buried in the nearby parish Church of Porteshead leaving money to the parish church of Clopton (Clapton.)
RICHARD POMEROY Esq MARRIED ANNE WYKES daughter of William Wykes WIDOW OF THOMAS ARTURE in 1544
The Artur family and the Wykes family had several connection via marriages to other local gentry families
Sir Ralph Percival married Elizabeth Wykes daughter of Sir John Wykes of Nynehead - their children were Elizabeth, John, Richard and Walter -
Sir Ralph died in 1403 . Sir John Percival died without issue and his brother Sir Richard inherited -
Sir Richard Percival born about 1410 married Agnes Artur dau of Richard Artur of Clapton in Gordano
The Wykes family have a similarly long history in Somerset, although their family tree is larger and more affulent.
This 1544 marriage of Richard Pomeroy appears to create a new Pomeroy family group in the Gordano area
close to but predating a recorded group at Clevedon in the 18th century
seven years after this marriage of 1544 we find a collection of baptisms in Clapton in Gordano
Richard Pomeroy b 1550 in Clapton in Gordano
Portbury Hundred Church Records - Clapton in Gordano Early marriages recorded in Latin 1559 - 1624 by Art Lawton, Trenton, NJ
The record reads -marriage entries from 1559 through 1597 appear to have been re-copied by the rector who made the first original contemporaneous entry in 1601.
This resulted in several entries being made out of chronological order and, of course, the apparent recopying introduced the potential for scribal error.
Consequently, for these early entries the potential for error exists not only from this current transcription but also from the 16th century recopying. transcribed from the Latin
Problems arose when both Champernoun died “beyond the sea” and John Ford(of Bagtor near Ashburton) died , both without recording the lease agreements made to Pomeroy
Richard Pomeroy was called a “Powerful” man, who has Good Council. (Similar to the complaint Sir Edward made of Richard’s mother Agnes ; that she had powerful friends.)
The Records
File: C 1/1254/43. Date: 1544-1551:
Richard POMERYE, esquire, and Anne his wife, late the wife of Thomas Arture, v. John ARTURE, son and heir of the said Thomas. Annuity promised to the said Anne in lieu of dower.: SOMERSET.: 1544-1551
suggesting a connection with the family group in Totnes in Devon - the wealthiest place in Devon after Exeter at that time -
Lease of lands in the manor of Little Totnes, now claimed by John, earl of Bath.: DEVON. 1544-1551 (Little Totnes was the area outside the town walls mainly along the road to Plymouth )
C 1/1254/44 Richard POMERYE, esquire, and Anne his wife, widow of the late Thomas Arture, versus George, son and heir of John FORDE.
John Ford of Ashburton married Mary Pomeroy dau of Hugh of Ingsdon ( 1st July 1566 at Bickington ) their daughter Margaret Ford married John Rolle of Stevenstone and their daughter Honor Rolle born Abt. 1535 in Stephenson in Devon was married on 2nd November 1559 to Thomas Pomeroy born 1543 - died July 29, 1615 in Brixham, Devon.
File: C 1/1256/46: Richard PO[MERYE] and Anne his wife, late the wife of Thomas Arture, v. Thomas HORNOR, knight.: "feodary of Co. Somerset",
One-third of the manors of Clapton and Weston-super-Mare assigned to the said Anne as dower.
Date: 1544 - 1551 File: Receipt DD\SF/905 Of Anne Arthur, widow, for £40 paid her by Wm. Wykes her brother, one of the exors. of the Will of their father Wm. Wykes, in part payment of the 100 marks bequeathed her by her father. [Somerset Archive and Records, SANFORD FAMILY ?Date: 1543)
Whilst there are records concerning the estate of Thomas Artur referencing Clapton in Maperton, Somerset, there is no indication that Anne and her new husband Richard Pomeroy, esq. acquired any interest in them.
There is a group of Pomeroy at Maperton which is about 100 miles away near Wincanton
(AJP wonders if Pomeroy family members were given these to manage the properties )
The birth of Richard Pomeroy in Clapton in Gordano in 1550 would seem to indicate that they resided in the area -and if he was a child of Richard Pomeroy and Anne Wykes and Anne died at that time this would explain the absence of her name in the 1552 Will of her mother Agnes Wykes.
Nynhead Florey manor house
Alice Wyles sister of Anne Artur the daughters of William Wykes of Nynehead married Humphrey Barnehous.
c 1/944 Date 1538-1544: Somerset. Humphrey BARNEHOUS, v. William WYKES, son and executor of the said William.:
Money promised to complainant on his marriage by the said William, who died possessed of the manor of Withiel Florey (Withyll) and lands there and in Ilchester, Uphill, Matcombe (i.e. Mackham, near Dunkeswell ?), and Hemyock.:
SOMERSET, DEVON.
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings,
content Wykes v Wykes. Plaintiffs: Richard Wykes. Defendants: Henry Wykes.
Subject: property in Chagford, Shrowleigh [Throwleigh], Drewsteignton and South Stauton [South Tawton], Devon.
Family Connections
SIr Richard Pomeroy & his 2nd wife Elizabeth Densill had a daughter Elizabeth who married William Barnhowse of Kingston in Staverton near Totnes
Their daughter Agnes Barnhowse married Rowe a Totnes lawyer who rebuilt the medieval manor in very grand style, almost bankrupting himself in the process
Family Connections
The Barnhouse family connect to the Southcote family and the Kirkham family who connect to the Ingsdon Pomeroys -
Barbara Southcott of Indiho Bovey Tracey married Hugh Pomeroy of Ingsdon in 1543 - their daughter Mary married John Ford
Brother of Barbara, Thomas Southcote, married both Barnhouse and Kikham wives.
The Barnhouse family connect to the Southcote family and the Kirkham family who connect to the Ingsdon Pomeroys -
Barbara Southcott of Indiho in Bovey Tracey married Hugh Pomeroy of Ingsdon in 1543 - their daughter Mary married John Ford
Her brother Thomas Southcote, married both Barnhouse and Kikham wives.
A few Pomeroys within 30 miles of Clapton in Gordeno
Thomas Pamere married Johane Bondyge 21 Nov 1575 Cheddon Fitzpaine 2 miles N.E. of Taunton & 30 odd miles from Clapton in Gordano
Robert Pawmore buried12 Jun 1576 Bridgewater
Alice Pownire married to Henry Grave on 1 June 1571 in Spaxton almost 30 miles away & 6 miles from Bridgwater,
Thomas Pomeroy son of Thomas & Elioner Bb at Enmore, Som 11 Jane 1640- which is 4 miles from Bridgwater & 28 from Clapton in Gordano
Richard Penroe in Enmore married Maria Lington on 5 Feb 1598
Margery Pomry married 7 Jan 1610 to Edward Beecy in Nailsea, Somerset,
Joan Penrie Sept 1613 Married John Baker in Portbury, Somerset,
Joan Pomery died 8 June 1627 Buried in Kenn, Somerset
Pomery Nicholas Bb 16 May 1596 s/o Hugh in Kenn, Somerset,
Pomery Johane Bb 20 June 1596 d/o Hugh in Kenn, Somerset,
Pomery George Bb 5 June 1605 son of Hugh in Kenn, Somerset
Hugh Pomeroy father of 3 children above
candidates
Hugh Pomeroy at Ingsdon married Barbara Southcote at Indiho Bovey Tracey 1543
Hugh Pomeroy son of Thomas Bb 15 July 1590 Plymouth
Hugh Pomeroy in Paignton married wife Joan Rogers 1591
Hugh Pomeroy son of Thomas in Plymouth buried 1590
Hugh son of Thomas in Plymouth buried 1604
Hugh Pomeroy at Ingsdon buried Ilsington 1603
Figuring the Connections out - something AML is exceptionally good at !
1572 Apr 17, Richard Romsey & Isabella Hobbs
Ric Romsey et Izabella hobbs decimo Septimo Aprillis 1572
could this be a transcription error? and Richard Pomroy married Isabella Hobbs on 17th APRIL 1572
AML felt this is a likely and the baptisms in Clapton in Gordano followed
John to Richard Pomroy bapt Oct 20.1572
Robert to Richard Pomroy bapt Sep 15.1574
Richard to Richard Pomroy bapt Apr 29.1576
Edmund Pomroy and Agneta Pomroy to Richard Pomroy bapt Mar 20.1579 either double baptism or twins
100 years later further baptisms evidence of Pomeroy’s there
Edward Pomeroy born 1650 Clapton in Gordano spouse Grace children baptised in Clapton in Gordano
Anne, B 1677, Grace 1681, Hugh 1678, Nicholas & Patience 1683 again either double baptism or twins
Mother Grace was the only one apparently born 1650 and buried in Clapton in Gordano 1696
Their location in Gordano strongly suggests a connection with the Richard Pomeroy, esquire, who married 1544 Anne Artur nee Wykes.
Research by AML shows that this Richard Pomeroy who married Anne Wykes the widow Lady Artur, & Overseer of her mothers Will, was from Richard of Bowden House near Totnes son of Thomas Pomeroy by his wife Agnes Calloway who married Eleanor Coker. He was a man of considerable influence and local power.
AML writes of him in 2017
Latest batch of National Archive Records resolved some questions about Richard Pomeroy who married Anne Wykes Arthur.
He is the same Richard in the Visitations (Vivian) who married Elinor Coker. “Alive in 1531.”
HE was the Richard Pomeroy at Sandridge 1523, owing £8 to the King. (Powley).
His mother Agnes held Sandridge “by Gift,” and he by Inheritance, as her heir.)
HE was the Richard Pomeroy who held lease of the Grange at Garston from Champernoun, (C 1/1058/70) and who purchased a 25 year lease of the Manor of Little Totnes from John Ford;
Both were church properties subject to closure and made available by the King.
North Wyke, "One messuage and four furlongs of land in North Wyke. -
According to the Wykes researcher David -there is no apparent connection between the North Wykes family of Wykes and those of Nynehead - however I did find a referencefrom the 14th century suggesting there was a connection.
John Wyke b: Abt 1356 in North Wyke, Axminster, Devon, England Spouse Katharine Bonville b: Abt 1361 in Chewton Mindip, Somerset, England Married: Abt 1443 in Bindon, Devon, ( Bindon is in Axmouth south east Devon )
Children Ann Wykes b: Abt 1444 in Bindon, Devon, England
Ann WYKES b: Abt 1444 in , Bindon, Devon, spouse Thomas HORSEY b: 1443 in , Barport, Dorset, England
Anne Wykes daughter of WILLIAM WYKES b: in Nynehead Flory son of RICHARD WYKES b: ABT 1411 in Nynehead Flory married Thomas Artur in 1539 and in 1544 married Richard Pomeroy inherited BINDON- I thought this was through her mother Agnes Strowbridge but it seems as if this might be wrong. Higher Rowden is very close to North Wyke - a manor house that became is a farmhouse and which is a possible place for Richard Pomeroy of Rowden.
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, content Wykes v Wykes. Plaintiffs: Edmund Wykes. Defendants: Agnes Wykes widow and others.
Subject: personal estate of the deceased Henry Wykes, Devon. Document type: [pleadings]. Covering dates 1558-1579
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, S... C 3/186/96
Wykes v Wykes. Plaintiffs: William Wykes and Francis Wykes . Defendants: Robert Wykes . Subject: property in Hanham, Bitton and Oldland, [Gloucestershire] Document type: [pleadings]. Wykes v Wykes. Plaintiffs: William Wykes Date: 1558 - 1579
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings content Wysham v Wykes. Plaintiffs: George Wysham clerk. Defendants: George Wykes.
Subject: money matters, Herefordshire. Document type: [pleadings]. Covering dates 1558-1579
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files,... E 150/147/4
(1) Wykes, Joan, wife of William Wykes. (2) Wykes, Henry: {Henry?} Devon . (1) Wykes, Joan, wife of William Wykes. (2) Wykes, Henry: {Henry?} Date: 1506 - 1507
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