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Shropshire is 1,343 landlocked miles on the Welsh Border between upland Wales and lowland England. There is a long & significant history of conflict & the Marcher castles , many of which still exit were buil along the border to defend against Welsh incursions.
Marcher districts were established & the cities of Chester, Shrewsbury & Hereford were administered by the powerful earls.
Shrewsbury is the county town Shropshire complex & turbulent history. Over the ages the town has been the site of many conflicts, particularly between the English and Welsh. The Angles, under King Offa of Mercia, took possession in 778 Just 5 miles to the south-east is the site of the fourth largest cantonal capital in Roman Britain, Viroconium,. The importance of the Shrewsbury to the Roman era is underlined with the discovery of the Shrewsbury Hoard in 2009.
In the C14th, when Sir John Pomeroy and his wife Joanne de Merton held the Pomeroy barony, “Harry Hotspur” ( 1364 – 1403) as Henry Percy of Northumberland was called, was in rebellion against the Lancastrian king Henry IV. This culminated at the Battle of Shrewsbury, fought on 21 July 1403 when Hotspur died, shot in the face with an arrow, & the king , Henry Bolinbroke, Henry IV, very nearly lost both his life and his throne, having taken the throne from the tyrannical Richard II in 1388
When looking for C16th Pomeroys the names POMOORE & POWMERE caught my eye ;
At first I discounted it then realised that when spoken aloud, with the E sounded, they become 3 syllables, Pomoor-ee which could easily become Pomeroy.
This was a time when few people could read or write the spoken word made a difference to the spelling when written ; & dialect made a difference- the dialect of the south coast of England is definitively different to that of the Midlands / Black Country-) As demonstrated here }
Pamoore Edward 1564 Married Elizabeth Ladicot at Munslow, Salop his son Richard Pomoore Bb 8 Sep 1571 son of Edward was regenerate , at Shipton Shropshire
23 years later 10 miles away in Condover
Richard Powmere Marriage 24 Sep 1594 Anglican Marriage in Condover to Katheryn Mynsterley in county of Shropshire
Anne Pawmery buried on 29 Jan 1574 in Dymock in Gloucestershire. She Anne Wykes & the young widow of Sir Thomas Artur mother of John Arthur when, in 1544, she married Richard Pomeroy of Totnes. She was living with relatives in Dymock at the time she died in the reign of Elizbeth I - 1558 -1603
Geographically - Dymock which is south & right on the border about 40 miles north of Newport, Shrewsbury is 52 miles upstream from Dymock on the navigable river Severn & about 40 miles from Shipton just south of Shrewsbury.
Roads were awful and rivers were highways
Connections C16th
AML found this
1. C 1/695/22 Description: Short title: Arthur v Thornes.
Plaintiffs: Thomas Arthur, esquire, son and heir of John Arthur.
Defendants: Robert (Roger) Thornes, gentleman, Richard Mytton and nine others, bailiffs of Shrewsbury.
Subject: Issues and profits of messuages, shops, garden, land, and rent in Shrewsbury, taken by defendants at the instance of Antony Rawly, esquire, and Edward Rawly, gentleman. Shropshire
Date: 1532-1538 Held by: The National Archives, Kew
ALBERBURY PARISH REGISTER. The Church was connected with the courtyard of the small ruined castle of the Fitzwarines by a flying buttress.
About two miles from the Church stands the White Abbey, long ago turned into a domestic dwelling; but some fine 13th century vaulting, the traces of a large east window and piscina, and an Early English doorway still exist. The history of its foundation by Fulk Fitzwarine in the time of King John is so quaintly told by a troubadour in the " Gestes of the Fitzwarines " that it may be worth recording here:-
"Fulk bethought him that he had greatly sinned against God as by slaughter of people and other great offences and in remission of his sins founded a Priory (in the honor of our Lady St. Mary of the Order of Grandmont) near Alberbury, in a wood on the river Severn, and it is called New Abbey ... and he saw in his chamber so great a light that it was wonderful ... and after that light Fulk could never see more, but was blind all his days This Fulk remained seven years blind and suffered well his penance. Lady Clarice, his wife, died and was buried at the New Abbey: after whose death Fulk lived but a year and died at White-town (Whittington), and in great honor was he interred at the New Abbey; on whose soul may God have mercy. Near the altar lies the body. God have mercy on us all alive and dead, Amen." In the year 1858, the east end at the Abbey was altered by its owners, All Souls College, and under the altar were found five skeletons; they were taken up and buried in the orchard.
Alberbury in Shropshire is partially over the Welsh Border, 9 miles west of Shrewsbury.
Formerly a Royal Manor,- in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, a dwelling place of the warlike family of Fitzwarine, Alberbury is said by the Antiquary Evan "to have a history of surpassing interest to those who would study the principles and workings of the feudal system".
The original Saxon Church was collegiate and dedicated to St. Michael. It now consists of a fine ancient Nave, a Chancel rebuilt in the middle of 19th century, a saddle-back fortress Tower on the north of Nave, and a 14th century Chapel (tithe free) on the south side belonging to the Leighton family
Domesday is REALLY Interesting
Alberbury at that time was Bausley
Lord in 1066: Siward ( the fat).
1068 held by Roger son of Corbet - 2 households occupied by 2 welshmen with 1 plough team worth 2/shillings
Bausley has all kinds of interesting connections causing me wonder if the 16th C Pomeroy Powmery's in Shrewsbury area connect to the armorial tree.
There is a direct connection between Corbet in Shropshire and Tremerton Castle & Pomeroy;'s in C14th.
- Isabella de Valletort Born about 1203 in Shropshire, daughter of Roger de Valletort and Alesia de Valletort. Married Thomas Corbet sibling to Roy Valletort [half brother), Reginald de Valletort, Ralph de Valletort & Joan de Valletort wife of Henry Baron Pomeroy
A long Running Court Case in 1316
A long Running Court Case in 1316
The Pomeroy & Corbet court action of 1305
Peter Corbet and Henry de la Pomeroy by right of their wives petitioned Parliament for the revision of a deed alleging that the nephew of Roger de Valletort, who was recorded as insane for having, before his death circa 1275, sold the feudal barony of Tremerton for £ 100 which In 1166, comprised 59 knight's fees, thus about 59 separate manors.
What was left of the estates eventually found its way to the descendants of two daughters of Ralph de Vautort . Descendants of Joel de Vautort, a younger son of Reginald de Vautort held lands in Somerset centred on the manor of Currypool in Spaxton until about 1332
Tremerton Castle in SALTASH Cornwall seen above left was established by Robert, Count of Mortain soon after the Norman Conquest.[2] From the Conquest until 1270, the rights for the ferry from Saltash Passage on the Plymouth side of the River Tamar to Saltash belonged to the Valletort family. When Roger de Valletort sold Trematon Castle and manor to Richard Earl of Cornwall, the rent was paid to the Earl's bailiff. In the thirteenth century, this amounted to nearly seven pounds sterling.
The Manor and Castle of Trematon was the cause of a court case on 16 February 1270.
. Richard Plantagenet (created Earl of Cornwall 1226), the son of King John of England, was the claimant and Roger de Valle Torta the opponent regarding this land, 60½ knights fees in Devon and Cornwall, and the Manor of Calstock. The land was said to be the right of the said king as those which he had by Roger's gift.
Following the endorsement of this foot of fine it says: And Henry de la Pomerai and Peter Corbet put in their claim. They did not agree with the decision and lodged notice of their rights to a share of the lands. It was an argument was to continue for three generations..
Additional details appear in the Fine Rolls Vol. 1 1272-1307 order: In 1274, Thomas Corbet died in 1300 & the executors of his WILL were ordered to deliver to his son & heir Peter Corbet, the lands which had belonged to his father. Peter Corbet born in 1298 was still a baby when his father died . Peter's first wife was Joan Mortimer.
A page note in the Feet of Fines confirms that Peter Corbet was the grandson of Isabella Corbet (formerly Valletort). This Peter, in 1315, was to petition Parliament for the recovery of the Trematon estate, alleging that when Roger de Valletort made a deed of gift in favour of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, he was non compos mentis. ( Insane)
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol9/pp1-14
Shropshire Corbets
Roger Corbet was the third son of t he. Sir Robert Corbet (died 1375) of Moreton Corbet The Corbets of Moreton Corbet were descended from the Corbet family of Caus Castle, who had been important landowners in the Welsh Marches from the time of William the Conqueror.
The senior line of the Corbets at Caus had petered out in 1347 and the properties passed to Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford The cadet branch made their home at Moreton Corbet Castle, then a significant stronghold in north Shropshire.
Roger Corbet had two older brothers, Thomas and Fulk, as well as a younger brother, John, and a sister, Joan.
He inherited most of the family estates only because of a complex series of arrangements made by his parents. As the eldest son, Thomas, predeceased his parents, they were concerned to keep the estates in the Corbet family by preventing their going to Elizabeth, Thomas's daughter, who had married Sir John Ipstones, Later he was twice elected MP for Staffordshire..
They initiated a series of transactions, some involving their daughters, intended to put most of the estates intail, and favouring in particular Fulk and Roger . However, some of the provisions were mutually-contradictory, generating the disputes Roger pursued in the 1380s and 1390s. In fact, litigation began even before the death of Sir Robert. In 1374 Elizabeth and Ipstones went to the Court of Common Pleas to try to get possession of the manor of Braunstone in Leicestershire, which had been given to Thomas Erdington, the son of Roger's sister, Margaret.
Isabella Valletort Born about 1203 in Shropshire, Daughter of Roger Valletort and Alesia de Valletort wife of Thomas Corbet — married 1218 in Caus, Shropshire, Eng sister to Roy Valletort [half brother , Reginald Valletort, Ralph Valletort. & Joan Valletort wife of Henry Baron Pomeroy ,
Sir Robert Lee, alderman, Sir John Watts, alderman, George Hanger, George Collymere, Robert Cobb, Arthur Jaxon, Andrew Banning, John Dorrington, who with other English merchants of the society, being free of Spain and Portugal entreated Richard Langley, 'the Solicitour of the Citties lawe causes', to ascertain how the company might procure from the king a confirmation of the charters and liberties previously granted by the king's ancestors to the English merchants trading to Spain and Portugal. They also asked Langley to become the secretary of the company,
which he dowbted he should not be hable to dischardg by reason of other ymployments unlesse he gave over some other place or office which he enioyed. Yett neverthelesse he thought himself so much bound to the said woorshipfull parsons for their love and good opynyon conceyved of him that he would discharge himself of some other employments and accept of their loving and kinde offer.
He then informed the company that the old charter was shortly to be presented to the lord chancellor, who would give orders for the drawing up of a new charter of confirmation which would soon receive the great seal. It was therefore agreed that a committee consisting of Sir John Watts, Paul Banning, Thomas Wilford, John Harby, George Hanger, Richard Weech, John Dorrington, Roger Howe and Laurence Greene, or any six of them, accompanied by Richard Langley, should attend the chancellor on the matter of the charter. In addition it was agreed to levy 20s. apiece on the following persons, to cover the charges thereby incurred:
Sir Robert Lee, Sir John Watts, Paul Banning, Richard Staper,
John Harby, George Hanger, George Collymere, Richard Weech, Robert Cobb, William Gore, John Dorrington, William Towreson, Francis Barnes, John Bate, Arthur Jaxon, Roger Howe, Joseph Jaxon, Thomas Bostock, Edward James, William Cokayne, Laurence Greene, William Stone, Andrew Banning, Jeffrey Kerby, Robert Bowyer, Thomas Allabaster, Leonard Parker, Robert Jenny, William Jennings.....
in Time of James I 1603 -1625
'A Generall Courte holden at Pewterers hall on Munday in the afternoon before the Ascentian day, the 14th day of May, Anno Domini 1604 . . . being also th'election day appointed by the letters patents.'
The following worshipful members of the company were present: Thomas Wilford the last president, Sir Thomas Pullyson, Sir Robert Lee and Sir John Watts, William Cokayne, John Hawes, George Collymere, George Hanger, Robert Cobb, Robert Bowyer, John Bate, Robert Savage, Nicholas Peele, William [p. 6] Stone, John Brooke, Nevill Davis, William Jennyngs, Allen Thompson, George Samuell, 'and dyvers others who were sonnes and servaunts to freemen, and may laufully be admytted into the freedome by patrymony or service'
1604 & 5 In Time of Plague
22 burials marked as deaths from plague in Condover 1604 & 1605
It appears the Powmere's in the area escaped this fate
1604,
*" Mar. 19. Robt. Ryder, of C
*" Mar. 22. Raffe Ryder ... bur.*" Apr. 8.
1605 Yevan Vaughan, s'vaunt with Raffe Rider, deceased ... bur. *" Apr. 18.
Rich. Wylding, of C. ... bur. *" Apr. 18.
Jonathan, s. of Gregorie Englishe ... bur. *" May 3.
Alice Phillipps ... bur. *" May 11.
Thomas Cowdale ... bur.*” Sep. 10.
Marie Foxe ... bur. *" Sep. 12. Moyses, s. of Rowland Foxe ... bur. *" Sep. 14.
Rowland Foxe ... bur. *" Oct. 11.
Olyver, the servaunt of Rich. Sturchley ... bur. *" Oct. 13.
John, s. of Richard Sturchley ... bur.*" Oct. 20.
John Mathoes, of C. ... bur. *" Nov. 17.
Marie & Lucy, daus. of Thos. Maull, of Great Lythe ... bur.*" Dec. 17.
Ann, wief of Georg English ... bur.*" Jan. 28.
Rich., s. of Thos. Mau11, of Great Lythe ... bur. *" Apr. 8.
Yevan Vaughan, s'vaunt with Raffe Rider, deceased ... bur.*" Apr. 18.
Rich. Wylding, of C. ... bur.*" Apr. 18.
Jonathan, s. of Gregorie Englishe ... bur.*" May 3.
Alice Phillipps ... bur.*" May 11.
Thomas Cowdale ... bur.
Shipton is 13 miles south of Shrewsbury Alderbury is about 20 miles away to the north west
BHO
SHIPTON- ('sheep estate') was so called by 1086. In 1272 there was a Little Shipton, but no later reference to it is known. (fn. 19) Shipton township had at least 11 houses in 1540. (fn. 20) Henry Mytton, lord 1688-1731, stopped letting smaller farmhouses when they fell vacant but dwellings remained in view of the Hall across the road until they were demolished in the later 18th century.
PONTESBURY is 7½ miles S.W. of Shrewsbury, inhabitants chiefly engaged in the coal, lime, and lead mills.
"SHIPTON, 6½ miles S.W. of Much-Wenlock, with mainly agricultural occupations
Aldersley is on the flood plains of the river Severn on the Welsh Borders and once had a small Marcher castle. It's one of those neat well cared for villages obviously dominated by the huge estate at its heart which has been owned by the Leighton family for 700 years.
Nearby is an area spelled BAUsley on 19th C maps -
There are a great many quarries in the area
Thomas Pamoore married 5 June 1592 at Worthen in Shopshire to Mgar Betchfelf (? Margaret Betchfield ) FMP
Richard Powmere Marriage 24 Sep 1594 Anglican Marriage in Condover to Katheryn Mynsterley in county of Shropshire Archive reference P81/A/1/1 Page 33 Record set Shropshire Marriages
Katheryn Mynsterley Bb 25 May 1558 at Chelmarsh father Thomas 18 miles from Condover
I noticed that there is a place called Minsterley on the map just south west of Pontesbury.
Minsterley Hall, a Grade II* listed house built in 1581, lies on the edge of the village. Formerly the Shropshire seat of the Marquess of Bath, the house was greatly extended in 1653 for Sir Henry Frederick Thynne,
CONDOVER, a parish in the hundred of Condover, in the county of Salop, 4 miles S.W. of Shrewsbury with townships and hamlets of Bayston Hill, Boreton, Chatford, High and Low Condover, Dorrington, Lyth, Ryton, Westley, and Wheathall
1613 -20th May Richard Pamore son of Richard Pomere and his wife Alice was Regenarate ( baptised )
Shipton Hall is a grand Elizabethan house with a huge stable block , magnificent barns & adjacent church; evidently a substantial estate which was the seat of the Mytton family until it passed by marriage to the Samuel More family, of Mayflower pilgrims fame, in 1795
At Domesday Alderbury was held by Roger son of CORBET who had 37 manors all in Shropshire from the tenant in chief was Roger Montgomery 1st Earl of Shrewsbury who held most of the land in the area who was father of William was the son of Robert, Count of Mortain, the half-brother of William I of England by Maud de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
A Curious Arrangement
Larden Hall,(above) Richard More of Nether Larden in 1463 settled the manor house on his grandson Richard More, also of Nether Larden. Richard More's brother William had lands there by 1489, and the estate passed from father to son, through William's son Edward (d. c. 1554), to Thomas (d. 1567), and Jasper, at whose death in 1614 Larden passed to his kinsman and son-in-law Samuel More of Linley.
In 1622 Samuel More having divorced Jasper's daughter consigned her bastard children to the Mayflower !
Elinore More, Shipton, Shropshire) age 8, assigned as a servant of Edward Winslow. She died from illness sometime in November 1620 soon after the arrival of Mayflower in Cape Cod harbor and likely was buried ashore there in an unmarked grave.[
Jasper More (Shipton, Shropshire) age 7, indentured to John Carver. He died from illness on board Mayflower on December 6, 1620, and likely was buried ashore on Cape Cod in an unmarked grave
Richard More (Shipton, Shropshire) age 6, indentured to William Brewster. Survived his childhood & married twice. He is buried in the Charter Street Burial Ground in Salem, Massachusetts. He is the only Mayflower passenger to have his gravestone still where it was originally placed sometime in the mid-1690s. Also buried nearby in the same cemetery were his wives Christian Hunter More and Jane Crumpton More.[
Mary More (Shipton, Shropshire), age 4, assigned as a servant of William Brewster. She died sometime in the winter of 1620/1621. She and her sister Ellen are recognized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb in Plymouth.
FMP BMDs
Pamoore Jocosta widow 1544 Married William Jorden at Shipton, Shrp
Pomeroy William 1562 Married Anne Lake at Sutton Maddock Shrop
Pamoore Elizabeth 1548 Married Thomas Tylor at Shipton, Salop
Pamoore Thomas 1552 Baptised a son of William in Shipton, Shrops.
Pamore Alice 1547 wife of William Pamore buried Oct 1547 Shipton
Pamoore Anna 1579 Burial wife of William in Shipton
Shipton is 13 miles south of Shrewsbury
Alderbury is about 20 miles away to the north west
Pamoore Edward 1564 Married Elizabeth Ladicot at Munslow, Shrop
Pamoore Margareta 1573 Married Robert Lewes alias Vaha , Shipton,
Pamore John 1572 Married Joyce Pennyfather in Claverley, Shrp
Pamore George 1595 Married Alice Cardington at Diddlebury
Pamore Roger 1601 Married to Maria Hamons at Lydbury North
Powmore Francis 1630 Married to Wills Gardener in Worthen Salop
BAPTISMS
Pamore Richard 1539 Bb to John & Jouse (Joyse) in Shipton, Salop
(earliest record found so far)
Pamoore Margaret 1548 Bb dau of William in Shipton, Shrop
Pamoore Thomas 1552 Bb son of Willioma in Shipton Shrop
Pamore Joanna 1557 Bb at Pontesbury
Pamore Johannes 1566 Bb at Muslow
Pamoore Richard 1571 Bb son of Edward at Shipton, Shrops
Pamore Rolander 1560 Bb son of Richard at Pontsbury
Pamore Richard 1562 Married Alice Barber at Pontsbury
Pamore Roland 1562 Bb son of Richard at Pontsbury
Powmere Joan 1600 Bb daughter of Richard Pommowe of Dorrington in Condover,a
large village 6 miles south of Shrewsbury
Pamore Francis 1608 Bb son of Richard
Pamore Anna 1610 Bb dau of Richard in Shipton
Pamore Richard 1613 Bb son of Richard in Shipton, Shrops ,
Pamoore Richard 1614 Bb son of Richard & Alice at Shipton,
Pamore Jacosa 1617 Bb dau of Richard & Alice at Shipton
Powmere Richard 1594 Married Katherine Mynsterly in Condover, Salop
Powmere Roger 1595 Bb son of Richard in Condover, Shrop
Powmere Thomas 1597 Bb son of Richard in Condover, Shrops
Pamore Henry 1593 Bb son of Thomas at Worthen
Pamore Brigetta 1614 Bb dau of John in Lydbury North -
3 miles from Bishop's Castle in Salop
Pamore Francis 1597 Bb son of ? in Worthen
hamlets of Bay stop, Boreton, Chatford, High and Low Condover, Dorrington, Lyth, Ryton, Westley, and Wheathall.
Pamoore Alicia 1547 Burial wife of William in Shipton, Shrop
Pamoore Anna 1579 Burial wife of William in Shipton
Pamoore John 1543 Burials Shipton, Shropshire, England
Pamore Richard 1585 Burial Shipton, Shropshire, England
Pamoore Edward 1587 Burial Shipton, Shropshire, Englan
Powmere Maria 22 Oct 1613 Baptised dau of John Powmere of Balsey in Alberbury, Shropshire,
Powmere Dorothea 17th May 1614 burial wife of John Powmere of Balsley in Alberbury, Shropshire
Powmere Johanes of Balsley buries 18th May 1614 in Alberbury, Shrops
IGI has the Transcribed register; typed in Latin which confirms the above as does Genuki
PONTESBURY HILL,above, has an iron age fort atop it
A rural parish to the southwest of Shrewsbury & contains a number of villages and smaller settlements, including Pontesbury, Pontesford, Plealey, Asterley, Cruckton, Cruckmeole, Arscott, Malehurst, and Habberley.
DORRINGTON, a township in the parish and hundred of Condover, in the county of Salop, 7 miles South. of Shrewsbury,on the A49 road & 6 N. of Church Stretton
Situated on a branch of the river Severn, in the neighbourhood of the Lawley, Caradoc, and Longmynd hills.
"CONDOVER, a parish in the hundred of Condover, in the county of Salop, 4 miles S.W. of Shrewsbury,
Bay stop, Boreton, Chatford, High and Low Condover, Dorrington, Lyth, Ryton, Westley, and Wheathall. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield,
The more than forty listed structures in Condover range from six separate early cruck-framed buildings and many black-and-white timbered cottages to the present-day vicarage and several funerary monuments in the churchyard. Of the early half-timbered houses, the most impressive are Church House, the Old School House and the Small House that is now known as Condover Court
https://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/Condover.html#vI
Condover is the birth place of Thomas Owen, a learned judge, who was educated at Oxford; from whence he removed to Lincoln's Inn, where he became Lent reader to the society, in 1583. In 1590, he was made Serjeant at Law, and afterwards a judge of the Common Pleas. He died in 1598, reports were printed in 1654.
Raglan Castle near Monmouth
The Welsh Border castles include
Chepstow Castle ; Goodrich Castle; Powis Castle ; Ludlow Castle ; Shrewsbury Castle;
Stokesay Castle; Raglan Castle; White Castle,
Raglan is one of my favourite castles . The first time I visited. I felt a strange connection to the place, one that gave me goosebumps, As I stood by the well in the central courtyard for a fleeting instant I heard the echoing sound of horses hooves on the cobbles . More than 40 years later I discovered there was a lateral Pomeroy connection to Raglanin the shape of the mother of one of the Pomeroy wives. Anne Matthews who married Andrew Pomeroy son of John of Collaton Manor
She was granddaughter of Sir William Herbert of Coldbrook, Monmouthshire, a son of magnificent Herberts of Raglan in Monmouthshire on the Welsh border..
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