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LOOKING for a the connection between Baron Sir Richard Pomeroy' s Will of 1496 in which he left a farm recently given to him by his sister Anne to William Nicholls
The 1st husband of Anne/Agnes Pomeroy BudockshideRobert died about 1452
her 2nd husband was Nickalus Stukely whose his 1st wife Thomasine died 1477
There is agap of many years between 1st husbands death & her 2nd marriage in 1478.
Q Was she allowed by the head of the family, her brother Baron Sir Richard, to remain unmarried for many years after her 1st husbands death ?
IF so Anne Agnes would have had dower lands & or properties from that marriage - death Stukely died in 1488
When Anne Pomeroy married George Maleverer in unclear but a year or so after the death of Stukely . George died before her and she died 1502 . That is shown ion several records that she was sister of Sir Richard Pomeroy
Elisabeth Budockshide daughetr of agnes married John Amadas, of Plymouth,
Margaret Amadas married 1st John Heath & 2nd Nicholas Slanning
John Pomeroy of Collaton 2nd son of Andrew sen. married Mary Slanning sister of Nicholas of Maristow
John Amadas circa 1553 son & heir of 2nd son Will Amadas by Margaret Budockshide married Jane Nicholls dau of John Nicholls of St Tudy d 1581
March 19th 2022
Children of Agnes Pomeroy Budockshide
children were
Elisabeth Budockshide wife of Amidas of Plymouth,
Phillip died without issue.
THOMAS Budockshide wife Margaret Halwell; .
Agnes Budockshide wife of Oliver Hill of Shilston, Devon, son Robert married Ursula Southcote daughter of Thomas Southcott & Thomasine Kirkham 1576 in Bovey Tracey.
Robert Budockshide the 1st husband died 1452
Her 2nd husband was Nicholas STUKELY whose 1st wife Thomasine Cockworthy died 1477 Nicholas & Agnes married in 1478 and had at least one son William b 1479 and 1 daughter maybe 2
Nicholas died 1488
this may have been Agnes or it may be a sister called Anne as well , the names were interchangable
Anne Pomeroy sister of Baron Sir Richard married the Yorkshireman George Maleverer son of Halneth Maleverer and died in 1502
Alexander Merle, an Exeter city merchant, possibly a Scottish freebooter , by October 1382 was an MP for Devon with Bonville in favour with Edward III
1367 Elizabeth Courtenay widow of Roger Carminowe widow of Baron Henry Pomeory marriedAlex Merle
1377 King Edward III, granted his esquire Alexander Merle of Scotland an annuity of 12 pence or 1 shilling a day for his services in wars making about £20 a year
1378 Oct. 1- October 9:—mention of Alexander Merle, an esquire of Scotland, & his annuity
15 years later
1382 Elizabeth was dead &Merle married Johan widow of Sit Thomas Pomeroy MP
1384 Member of Parliament Ferrers†, Robert Chalons and Alexander Merle†, along with at least four men who sat in Parliament for local boroughs
1385 Alexander Merle esquire, cost and expenses in the safe carriage of 2000 marks brought by him from London to the Scottish March for the pay of the army invading Scotland,
1387 Members of Parliament - Bonville with Alexander Merle in October
1384 Member of Parliament Among the 44 esquires listed next were Hugh Courtenay (the earl’s brother), Martin
26 April 1392: The homage presents that Alexander Merle and Johanna his wife held certain lands and tenements Atte Wille for the life. After Johanna’s death the reversion is to the heirs of Thomas de la Pomeray to be held by Knight Services. (Johanna widow of Thomas married A. Merle).
Alexander Merle.1st married the widow of the Baron Pomeroy , Elizabeth lately wife of Sir Henry & then 15 years later after Elixbeth died he married his step daughter in law, Johane Pomeroy the widow of Henry's 5th son Sir Thomas.
21/3/22
William Mylle Mayor of Launceston 1539 & 1544 son of Richard Mylle
Richard Mylle and his son William were both Mayors of Launceston as was Thomas Hext & his son Digory Hext
.......Jane Hickes the maiden and daughter of Digory Hickes, one Tennemente with the appurtenaunces in the High Markett Streete in the Borrough of Donevett now in the tenure of Ann Seymour widowe, together with one close of land lying at windmyll head nowe in the tenure of Sir William Churton Clarke,
Likewise I geve unto her the one Moytie or halfendeale of all such landes lying in St Stephens by Launceston as I bought of Sir William Symon Clarke, and some other lieth in Boightley which was the landes of William Mill, the other Moyety is to descend to Digorie Hickes as his mothers landes being the daughter and heire of the sayd William Mill. All which moiety of the sayd landes which I had of the sayd William Symon with the other tennement in the High Streete and meadowe of Windmyll head with the Appurtenaunces
The only clue I have found to the possible ancestry of Thomas Hext of Launceston – is the use of the name Florence
AJP surmises that Thomas Hext Mayor of Laun 'son & influential merchant of that town could be
2nd son of Thomas Hext, wife not recorded in Visitation page 222 , who was 2nd son of Thomas or John of Kingston House, Staverton, Totnes; Thomas was a son by his 1st wife Florence Bonville.
Is he the one who married a Mylle and called his daughter Florence who married to Mr Mundy
Florence Hext Hickes Mundy married before 1595 ??
does she connect to
• John Mundy of Markeaton and Rialton, Cornwall. Admitted to the Middle Temple and married Joan Way,
whose children included
Katherine Mundy, who married Lawrence Kendall, esq , of Withiel, Cornwall.
Joanna Mundy, wife of William Prideaux (died 1564) of Trevose, St Merryn, Cornwall, who on 20 October 1537 received a 99-year lease of the manor of Padstow from Thomas Munday, the last Prior of Bodmin.
William's nephew Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550–1627), MP, built Prideaux Place in 1592 within the manor of Padstow.
Julia Wadham , 2nd wife and widow of Digory Hicks (d 1600) married on 22 Jane 1601 at Boyton to John Cottell the 3rd son of Walter Cottell by his wife Jane Browne ; they had a son Thomas & 2 daughters Dorothy & Hester
1558 the Register of St. Melton, from 1558: marriages: Johanus Pomery & Johana Cottell, July, 1570; (entered also in Pillaton Register as 31 July. St Melton is St Mellion near Saltash
Banns read in both parishes which are adjacent to each other
OPC /cornwall confirms marriage Mellion, St. Date -Jul 1570 Johanus POMERY married Joana COTTELL
Digory Hext son of Thomas Hext Mayor & Merchant in Launceston Ist wife was Anne Stone; his 2nd wife 1596 was Julia Wadham whose mother was a Dorothy Hechen /Hitchen 3rd dau of William Hitchen Gent; of Hole Farm near Saltash, now lost under C20th industrial estate.
The Will of William Hitchen shows Dorothy as the youngest daughter - she got 12 sheep whilst her older siblings got gilt cups with lids and silver spoons......... and her mother, who just got a gilt cup without a lid !
William Hechin and his wife Frances Dynham of Wortham; d 1593 beneath it a slate to his daughter Dorothy and her 11 children -and next to that one a memorial to her husband George Wadham of Catherston ; a third monument is the Arms of Hechin (argent a cross potance quarterly gules & azure between four lions' heads erased sable) impaling Dynham (gules four fusils in fess a border ermine)
The1566 WILL of William Hechens of Hole mentions son William and John and 3rd daughter Dorothy and Elizabeth Cowling wife of Thomas Cowling
Cottell W. H. A history of the Cotel, Cottell, or Cottle family, of the counties of Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, and Wilts, compiled from county histories, heralds' visitations, public records, wills, etc., London, Taylor and Co. (1871) 23 pp. [New York Public Library]
Cotell, William Henry. Pedigree of the family of Cotell, Cotele, Cottell, or Cottle of the counties of Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, and Wilts. London: Mitchell & Hughes, [1891] [BL 1856.d.1.(74.) ]
EXETER Merchants
Digory HEXTE (d 1600) owed 27 shillings to Thomas Greenwood of Exeter a haberdasher 1593 His father Thomas Hext of Launceston is also mentioned as a debtor
The haberdasher was a merchant who sold all kinds of things used to make clothing, including fabric, buttons, ribbons etc - a gentleman would visit his local haberdashery to pick out all the items he would need to have an outfit custom made by hand.
Source PhD dissertation of Kate Osbourne
Richard Izacke , Esq ; Chamberlain of Exeter 1676
Hicks/ Heckes/ Hext Hickes of Launceston & Cornwall
Hicks and Hearsey. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 5:6, (1909) pp.216. [See query, vol.5, p.177, par.107. Erratum, vol.5, p.296, par.161.] [Hicks Family] by J.G.Hicks
Thomas Hext's daughters married a Munday ,a Holbyn & an Isaacks - looking at those families
Nicholas Isacke, Mayor of Exeter. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 9:1, (1916) pp.7-12. [Includes pedigree and abstracts of wills.] [Index] by AJP Skinner.
Richard Izacke and his "Antiquities of Exeter". Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 25, (1893) pp.449-469. [Historian, 1676-1757] [Index] By T.N. Brushfield,
Perryman
Edward Pomeroy 2nd son of Thomas of Sandridge by his wife Honor Rolle , married Wilmot Perriman in 1602 at Drewsteignton
The Perryman family and the Exeter Canal. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 39,1 (2002) pp. 4-7, refs. [Article about the history of the Perryman family of Devon and their connection with the Exeter Canal, alongside which many of them lived.] Trott, John. Bu not available on line Try Library - Article about the history of the Perryman family of Devon & the connection with the Exeter Canal, alongside which many of them lived.
BHOL . 273. Chiswick, Jan. 6, 1624–5.—Francis Lord Russell (see p.II) writes to the Mayor and deputy Lieutenants of Exeter:
"After my hartie commendacons I received from you latelie a letter with a Recognizance wjerein Mr. Willyam Perryman, Schoolemaister of Exeter, was bound to appear before me together with your informacion against hym towchinge the cause of his byndinge over;
Also found George Perryman Mayor of Exeter 1577
PERRYMAN in Drewsteignton
Susanna Perryman buried Crediton 1625
Richaurde Perryman married John Wadlande at Drewsteignton 4 Nov 1611
Margery Perryman buried 1622 where?
Nicholas Perryman buried 3 April 1608 ? where?
http://www.newcombe.info/Newcombe%20of%20Chagford.html
George Perryman Mayor of Exeter 1577- in 1602 he was appointed schoolmaster the Exeter free Latin High School however over time he seems to have become rather stiffed necked and beat his pupils remorselessly; this roused enmity from both pupils & their parent resulting in a controversy that lasted 10 years.
FOUND another St Cleer WILL & Probate - St Cleer close to St Neots where we have the family group- possibly the nearest lawyers office
This one we have John Pomeroy gent Will Probate 1620 St Cleer
Additional information no court shown / Source (see list) Viv/ Doc form Abstract or Extract/ Record set / Devon Wills Index, 1163-1999
Doc ref Vol. 5, f. 101 Place St Cleer Wills & Probate
This one is new to me - FMP
Thomas Pomeroy 1622 Doc type Will/ Source (see list) / Fryb /List Entry / Doc ref 250 W.
Probate year 1622 Place St Teath or St Cleer or ??
Record set Devon Wills Index, 1163-1999 Court (Episcopal) Consistory Court of (The Bishop Of) Exeter FryB
Fry, E.A. (ed.) Calendar of Wills and Administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Exeter, 1532-1800. British Record Society Index Library Vol 46 (1914)
The FRYB Calendar, together with the FRYA and BECK Calendars, having been compiled before World War 2, provide the only overall record of the Exeter and Barnstaple wills that were lost through the destruction of the Exeter Probate Registry in 1942. There are of course no original wills or administrations to make copies of. However, copies of the FRYB Calendar (BRS Vol. 46) are held by a number of major reference libraries and various record offices. The volume is available on the National Wills Index as part of the British Record Society Probate Collection.
Provided by Ian Galbraith, of the National Wills Index, and edited by Richard Grylls and Brian Randell
Elizabeth Southcott married John Callard of Southcott as his 1st wife , son of 3rd son William
page 12 CAllard Southcott page 697 circa 1546
for searching purposes Southcott is a hamlet near Okehampton & Callard is in Ashreigney North Devon east of High Bickington
daughter Jane CALLARD Bb circa 1546 married circa 1560 to John Stone Esq who died 1573 - 7 children making her in her mid 20’s when she married Hext .
Did she have children by Hext? Its impossible to tell for sure Without knowing if they lived outside Launceston where he was a leading member of the town Alderman, Mayor, merchant. Wealthy merchants bought land & built houses out of town to demonstrate their wealth . The seems to have used the town house as a place of business with accommodation Over the Shop.
1581 Blisland Dorothia HICKES father Thome
1583 Blisland HICKES Thome
1587 Blisland Thamsina HICKES Thome
1584 Golant Jane HICKES father Thomas
1587 Golant Anne HICKES Thomas
Blisland is 16 miles from Launceston, maybe an hours ride if the tracks were good