Roger of Sandridge

under research & construction  

Roger Pomeroy, M.P. Baptised on 20 Sept 1626 2nd son of Valentine Pomeroy by his 2nd wife Margaret Whiddon  whose 1st son Valentine  born to his 1st wife in 1621 had died as a baby, his mother Lucy Reynell having died shortly after his birth.
Roger became head of the Pomeroy family whose  antiquity make the Courtenays look like newcomers and the Seymours rank usurpers. 

His ancestor is recorded in Domesday Book as holding 59 manors in chief, and between 1377 and 1413 the family regularly represented the county.  However they failed to weather the political and economic storms of the 16th century, and in 1547 Berry Pomeroy, their principal residence, was sold to the Seymours.3

He married Joan  Wylls or Willis daughter of Elias of Saltash in about 1630 
MP for Dartmouth 1685 Commr. for assessment, Devon 1673-80, Justice of Peace 1678-89, freeman, Dartmouth 1684, Totnes 1688; mayor, Tiverton June-Oct. 1688. Died 1708

Roger Pomeroy  remained a J.P. throughout the civil wars, and in 1685 he was returned as a Tory for Dartmouth, three miles from his residence. He was appointed only to two committees in James II’s Parliament, to recommend expiring laws for revival and to consider the bill for this purpose. He seems to have been the only Devon Protestant to give unqualified affirmative answers to the lord lieutenant’s questions on the repeal of the Tests and the Penal Laws.
However he was not popular among his constituents, who were reported in 1688 to be ready to elect any court candidate except Pomeroy and John Beare. A non-juror under William III, he is unlikely to have stood again, though he was restored to the commission of the peace in 1703. He was buried on 23 July 1708 at Stoke Gabriel, to which he gave a communion flagon. 

AJP The crest is odd.

Unless they were laying claim to Henry I and the Pomeroy decent from his illegitimate daughter  in the C12 th
3 lions passant is the Royal coat of arms.
The Lion Passant engrailed is the Pomeroy Crest -
It might be 3 leopards passant but  that get s me no further 

Joans mother was Joan Dawbyn  her father was Elias  Wills her mothers 2nd husband  who was probably a merchant in Saltash. her  step father was Thomas Wyvell was a gentleman.

Wyvell source s   http://www.trease.org.uk/traies/txt/txw00.htm

 Brixham: 1490:  Gift from Richard Pomeroy to John Wyvell and William his son of the manor of Down Thomas and the wardship of John Barnehouse 1 August 6 Henry VII  (1490)

Before 1496 Richard’s daughter Elizabeth married William Barnhowse of Kingston in Staverton 

Reference:1221/1

Description: aCartulary of land in the manor of Down Thomas and Plympton. Compiled in the early to mid sixteenth century probably on behalf of John Wyvell, John Casswill and John Barnehouse as proof of title to the services and dues on the land. The document recites deeds, inquisitions and papers associated with the rights of the property from 1294 - 1519. Recitals are in Latin and French.

1486/93 John Wevell or Wyvell and Cristyan Prall  his wife & sister of Thomas Gill (Gile)), (NAI C1/111/38)  and John Wulston, son of Johane Wolston, daughter of the said Jane. v. Thomas Pomerey and Agnes, his wife:

Detention of deeds relating to a messuage and land in Great Totnes, Bowdon, Ashprington, and Langton, late belonging to Thomas Gill, the younger, late of Hacch Arundell.: Devon

John Carswell of Totnes (Tottones) and John Wolston of Staverton, heirs of Thomas Gyll  the younger, esq., late of Hatche Arundell. v. Agnes( Bowring) late the wife of Thomas Pomeray, esq.: 

Charters, muniments, &c. concerning a messuage and lands in M ...., Bowden (Bowdon), Ashprington (Aschprengton ) and Langdon:(with writ annexed).  23 Henry VII:  (1505) Early Chancery Proceedings-Bundle 13. 

ROGER POMEROY Bb Sept 1629 Sole heir of cousin Hugh of Tregony married Jane Willis Wyvell of Saltash daughter of Elias Willis B 15 Feb 1625 St Stephen by Saltash died 13 Jul 1660 Stoke Gabriel. Roger died 1708 Stoke Gabriel.

 Oliver Wivell of Marystow, the father of Thomas Wivell of Wiveliscombe (the country seat near 

Saltash/St Germans in Cornwall NOT the Somerset village) whose lineage ended with his death in 1632.

North Petherwin parish registers prior to 1653 have not survived. Bishops Transcripts from 1611-1673 and from 1676 onwards have survived. 

Currently apart from Wills, only records available on-line have been inspected, namely :-

Baptism records from BTs for period 1676 - 1772 (available on IGI)

Burial records from 1672 - 1864 (available from Cornwall OPC database (COD))

Other possible sources of information yet to be inspected include:-

Baptism, marriage, and burial records from 1611-1673 from BTs.

Baptism, marriage, and burial records from 1653 from parish registers or transcripts thereof

Church accounts (exist in a very fragile state back to early 16th century)

Property Records 

1524 Subsidy, 1543 Subsidy, 1581 Subsidy 

Thomas Wivill

1st married Thomasine Whitford they had 1 daughter Frances Wivell who married Gifford Wills

2nd married Joan Dawbyn widow Body & of Elias Wills in 1618

Joan & Elias Wills had 8 children only 2 of the boys are in OPC/C 

Peter = 1616 OPC/Cornwall

Elias 1618 OPC/Cornwall

Margery 1620

Eliz. 1623

Joan =  1625 married Roger Pomeroy

Francis 1631

Cath. 1632

  Joan Dawbyn Body Wills 3rd marriage was to Thomas Wivill in 1628

Frances Wyvell was the daughter and heir of Thomas Wyvell, of Wyvellscombe, gent., and Thomasine his wife, whose burial is recorded in these Registers as Thomasine, wife of Thomas Wyvell, gent,, buried 9th May, 1598. 

By this marriage Wyvellscombe came to the Wills family.' 

: 'Wills of Landrake, now of Saltash, whose family, in the visitation of 1620, are traced five generations before that period,

 married the heiress of the ancient family of Wyvel or Wyvells of Wivelscomb in St. Stephen's, near Saltash. 

The present representative of both families is Francis Wills, Esq. of Saltash.' (Magna Britannia: volume 3: Cornwall (1814)

1605 i.  8Jun 1605. St Stephens by Saltash Frances, wife of Gifford Wills, gent. (HCN)

NOTE: Year 1604 (VC)