Rev Joseph Pomeroy
of  St Kew



The Reverend Joseph Pomery of St Kew

Joseph Pomery born Liskeard  28 Nov 1749 son of John  & Grace Pomery

Ordained 20 June 1772 at Exeter  his Deacon’s salary was £30 with fees for surplice

curate at Liscard  1772  Ordained Priest 1774 curate  St Just in Penwith 1774

curate  Bradoc with Boconnoc 1775 -  stipend £40 a year paid quarterly

by 1778 an new curate  in place at which time Joseph married 

Rev Joseph Pomery of St Kew married by licence on  31 Dec 1778 to Melloney Scobell OTP of Penzance at Madron witnessed by  Frances  & Lydia Veale  & Mary Scobell
  Melloney Pomeroy born Scobell in Madron in Cornwall in 1752,  record not found in baptisms DOB given in burial record


Joseph & Melloney  had 9 children in 10 years  children were 3 sets of twins , all boys and 3 other children  
 by 1797  Melloney was considered a chronic invalid.

 Melloney Pomeroy nee  Scobell wife of Rev Joseph Pomeroy born in Madron in Cornwall in 1752, 
died age 47 at St Kew  buried  5 Sept 1799-  

Rev Joseph Pomery of Bodmin, for  60 Years Vicar of the Parish St Kew lived on, presumably in the care of his daughter Mary.

He died age 88 and was buried 13 April 1837.
His youngest daughter Mary lived only 7 months after her fathers death  and died age 53  buried 24 Nov 1837 at St Kew 

His eldest daughter Melloney Scobell Pomeroy married Thomas Trood, gentleman, in Bodmin in 1809. Her daughter Melloney Grace Trood was born  1810 at Pough Hill

 https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwigs2/home 


OPC Cornwall has The Will of Joseph Pomery, dated 27 January 1837

William by Divine Providence, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, do by these presents make known to all Men, that on the thirteenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty seven at London, before the Right Honorable Sir Herbert Jemfer Knight, Doctor of Laws, Master, Keeper, or Commissary of our Prerogative Court of Canterbury, lawfully constituted the last Will and Testament of The Reverend Joseph Pomery Vicar of St. Kew and late of Bodmin both in the County Cornwall Clerk deceased hereunto annexed, was proved, approved, and registered: the said Deceased having whilst living, and at the time of his Death, Goods, Chattels, or Credits, in divers Diocese or Jurisdictions, by reason whereof the proving and registering the said Will, and the granting Administration of all and singular the said Goods, Chattels, and Credits, and also the auditing, allowing, and final discharging the Account thereof, are well known to appertain only and wholly to us, and not to any inferior Judge; and that Administration of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, and Credits of the said Deceased, and any way concerning his Will was granted to

The Reverend John Pomery Clerk the Son of the son Deceased the Sole Executor named in the said Will he having been already sworn by forminsson well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the said Goods. Chattels, and Credits, and to exhibit the same into the Registry of our said Court, on or before the last Day of March next ensuing and also to render a just and true Account thereof. Given at the time and place above will in and in the Tenth Year of Our Translation//

Chas Duneley

John Leggutieu Deputy

W.F.Gostling Registrar

This is the last Will and Testament of me Joseph Pomery Vicar of the Parish of Saint Kew in the County of Cornwall Clerk but now residing in the Borough of Bodmin in the said County I will and in direct that my Body be interred in a Stone Coffin or Receptacle which I have already provided for that purpose and now lying in the Church Yard of St Kew whereas on the marriage of my Daughter Mellony Stobell Trood the Wife of or: Thomas Trood I advanced a large Sum in order to obtain a handsome jointure for her life on the sofa of her husband and who has since by a Deed of Separation secured to her ninety pounds a year and whose oldest daughter now living with me have provided for and educated since she was a child search for her own sole and separate use and benefit and not to be subject to the debts control or engagements of her said husband and her receipt alone notwithstanding her Coverture shall be a good and sufficient discharge for the payment thereof………
and so on - a long deed  without punctuation..


Office copy of will and codicil of John Pomery, gentleman, of Lantoom, Liskeard 1838

Eight labourers to act as bearers to whom 5 shillings each instead of mourning.

Son Joseph Pomery, clerk amply provided for by St Kew and testator's marriage settlement and entitled to Davises tenement in Trewint and Great Marshes in Menheniot after deaths of testator and testator's wife subject to £150 payment. Also entitled to Penhale, St Cleer as heir at law to grandfather Peter Truscott, gentleman deceased Interest in Great Parkes adjoining Penhale during redress of leasehold term.

To daughter Grace £150 due out of Davis's Trewint by marriage settlement until paid by son Joseph Pomery.

To son Philip Tingcomb Pomery, mercer: Narwood Arundells Parks. Two plots in East Draynes and Netherton, St Neot bought of Heames and Deeble. Leasehold premises called Lantoom and Blackwater after death of wife Grace.

To daughters Mary Grace and Sarah Pomery £300 each. To be raised by grant to the Reverend John Jope, vicar of St Cleer and Thomas Hobling of Liskeard, gentleman of Kelles Trewint, Menheniot (formerly belonged to brother in law, Philip Tingcombe, surgeon deceased). In trust.

Premises devised to Joseph Pomery, clerk for ever. Trustees to sell, mortgage and raise money to pay off mortgage due to Francis Beauchamp, esquire, then to pay daughters' legacies.

To grandaughter Mellony Scobell Pomery £20.

To grandson John and godaughter Mary, son and daughters of Joseph Pomeroy, clerk £5 each, from money son Joseph Pomery, clerk owed testator. Sir Joseph Pomery to place these legacies at interest until they were of legal age.

Daughter Elizabeth Pomery handsomely provided for by uncle Tingcombe, £20 for a suit of mourning and `a ring to wear in remembrance of me.'

Residue of estate and tin bounds to wife Grace, executor

Witnessed: Charles Danger, Thomas Eliot, William Reynolds, junior, 24 September 1783.

Codicil (7 March 1787).

Wife dead. Residue to two sons, Joseph and Philip Pomery and three daughters Mary, Grace and Sarah.

Executors sons Joseph and Philip

Legacy to goddaughter Mellony charged to £5.

The Reverend John Hony of Trenant replace Thomas Hobling as trustee.

Witnessed: Charles Pomery, senior, Charles Pomery, junior, William Reynolds.

Proved 1 November 1788 (Archdeaconery of Cornwall. Extr. 24 April 1838.

Reference number CY/641 Date 1783-1788

Format Manuscript Extent 1 piece Level Item Access status Open

 

 

What on earth were Joseph & the pregnant Melloney doing in EXETER in 1790 ??  More than 70 miles from home over some of the worst roads in England ?

Did he go to Exeter meet  Joanna Southcott ? she was  a Very Unusual woman  and it seems unlikely since he dismissed her  unless  Joseph was meeting someone else to discuss her.   Maybe  Archdeacon of Cornwall ,George Moore, who was Exeter cathedral, prebendary  29/05/1770 - 21/03/1807  

Joseph Pomeroy & Archdeacon of Cornwall George Moore held a special place in the mission of Joanna Southcott a Methodist & rather strange  woman who promoted herself as a Visionary & who, shortly before she died age 64  declared she was going to give birth to the new Messiah.

 Joanna Southcott a Very Unusual woman  57. The Book of Wonders, Marvellous and True

Prophecy and the Politics of Salvation in Late Georgian England: The Theology and Apocalyptic Vision of Joanna Southcott (I.B.Tauris Studies in Prophecy, Apocalypse and Millennialism)

Joanna Southcott (1750 – 1814) remains one of the most significant and extraordinary religious figures of her era. In an age of reason and enlightenment, her apocalyptic prophecies attracted tens of thousands of followers, and she captured international attention with her promise to bear a divine child. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Southcott

Having first  been employed  as a shop-girl in Honiton, Joanna Southcott  moved from Gittisham to  Exeter in 1777 and was employed as a domestic servant to an upholsterer in Southgate Street .  She was eventually dismissed because a footman, whose attentions she rejected, claimed that she was "growing mad”.  Her version was that she disapproved of the upholsterers behaviour and he sacked her. He then pursued her with fabrications about her character when she sought  employment elsewhere. This was ultimately resolved when she sued him for defamation & assault ! 

1790  Joanna  abandoned Methodism and began attending services at the St Pauls Cathedral in Exeter whilst petitioning the clerical establishment, including Rev Joseph Pomeroy, who dismissed her .

Age 64 She announced she would give birth to the New Messiah &19 October 1814 was that fixed for the birth;  when the birth didn’t occur her followers said that she was in a trance.

Joanna Southcott died before  27 Dec   1814. The date is apparently uncertain because her followers kept quiet about her death believing she would rise from the dead - 




Feb 12 2020 just found - The answers may lie here