CONNECTIONS

CONNECTIONS
to the Pomeroys of Collaton Manor in Newton Ferrers

STRODE

John Pomeroy of Collaton Manor near Newton Ferrers born C 1490 2nd son of Andrew Pomeroy d 1495 . He married Johane Strode circa 1510 & died 1518 Issue one son

William de Strode by a letter of attorney in the 14th year of Edward IV's reign authorises a person to deliver to William his son, lands in the manors of Chalmington, Debberworth, Buckham, Bell and Blackdown, County of Dorset; and Boyden, County of Wilts.
Records show a deed of feoffment made by William to his son William.

I suspect Johane was from the Strode connection nearer to home. The branch of the family at Newnham near Plympton seem more likely since its close to Collaton Manor in Newton Ferrers.

Newnham Park (before circa 1718 was called Loughtor until about 1700 -

Plympton St Mary church, tomb of Sir Richard Strode +1464 This historic estate is in the civil parish of Sparkwell, Devon close to Plympton St Mary

Sir Richard Strode was a Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle, Devon in 1512 and was also involved in the tin mining industry. He is best known for having instigated Strode's case, one of the earliest and most important English legal cases dealing with parliamentary privilege....he introduced a bill to alleviate the harsh working conditions of tin miners on Dartmoor. However, the local Stannary court had jurisdiction to enforce a law against the obstruction of tin mining and Strode was prosecuted and imprisoned before he could travel to Westminster to present his bill.

Parliament passed Strode's Act, now named the Privilege of Parliament Act 1512 (4 Hen. 8 c. 8):

He may have belonged to the family of Ermington and Newnham in Plympton St. Mary, but he cannot be confidently identified with either the younger son of the Richard Strode who had sat for Plympton in 1437 and 1447 or with a grandson of the same name, for the elder of these (who was dead by 1518) is likely to have been a man of some property and the younger was to inherit the estate at Newnham.

SLANNING of Maristow
2nd son of Andrew Senior of Collaton was John who married Maria Slanning

The Slanning family is first documented in 1538 and spanned nine generations until the extinction of the male line in 1700. It was granted or acquired land in Bickleigh, Walkhampton, Maybury, and Roborough, all near Plymouth.

John Pomeroy of Collaton Manor in Newton Ferrers 2nd son of Andrew Pomeroy Senior who died 1581.

He fell in love with Maria Slanning daughter of John Slanning and sister of Nicholas. probably of Maristow in Plympton St Mary.(seeking dates & details)

He caused absolute uproar in both families taking the deeds to the Collaton Barton to prove he had property and was worthy of Maria. William his brother and head of that family and her brother Nicholas were infuriated but in the end he married her in 1596.
She apparently died at the Slanning manor in Battisborough near Collaton Manor and was buried at Holbeton on 12 Nov 1633

A descendent of her immediate family was Anne Jenkyn Bb Newton Ferrers 24 Sep 1605 daughter of Andrew Pomeroy junior of Collaton by his wife Jane Hext. Anne married Peter Jenkyn of St Columb Major in 1628 ; they had one child, a son, James Jenkyn born 1629 who married and had 1 son & 5 whose daughter, Mary, became third wife of Sir Nicholas Slanninge, Knt. Bart. They had no issue.

Nicholas Slanning (1606–1643)’ was the son of Gamaliel Slanning of Hele and his wife and cousin Margaret Marler, daughter of Edward Marler of Crayford, Kent.

His name appears numerous times in the Plymouth Black Book records of the Plymouth Corporation

Nicholas Slanning inherited Maristow, Walkhampton, and Bickleigh in1612. He attended Exeter College, Oxford and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1628. However, he left the next year for the Low Countries "to learn the arts of war".

Slanning returned to England and was knighted on 24 August 1632 at Nonsuch. He was appointed to the Commission for Piracy in Devon and Cornwall and Vice-Admiral of the Southern Shores of both counties. He was subsequently appointed Governor of Pendennis Castle which guarded the entrance to Falmouth harbour, in 1635, in succession to William Killigrew.
During the Civil Wars the Western Royalists took Bath, and after joining Prince Rupert on 26 July 1643 they stormed Bristol.
Slanning commanded one of the three tertia of the Western Army which attacked the South Eastern defences at 3.00 a.m.

Bristol fell after some thirteen hours fighting, leaving both Slanning and Trevanion mortally wounded. Slanning's leg was broken by a musket ball, and he died a few days later quipping " that he had always despised bullets, having been so used to them, and almost thought they could not hurt him", and professing "great joy and satisfaction in the losing of his life in the King's service to whom he had always dedicated it

MATTHEW

Son of John was Andrew born circa 1515 died 1581 He married Anne Matthew dau of Sir George Matthew

Sir George Matthews Knight Birth Abt 1470 of, Radyr, Glamorgan , Wales Death 14 Nov 1558
Welsh Medieval Database

Father Sir William MATHEW Knight, b. Abt 1430, of, Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales d. 10 Mar 1528; Mother was Jonet ferch HENRY b. Abt 1430, of, Cwrt-Henri, Llangathen, Carmarthen , Wales
(ferch is Welsh for daughter- Ap means son)

Sir George had 6 wives and mistresses & 28 children (eight of whom were illegitimate) many of them daughters for whom dowries were required.

Spouse 1 Margred HERBERT b. Abt 1470, of, Coldbrook Y Fenni, Monmouthshire, daughter of Sir William Herbert, Knight.

Anne was the 4th daughter b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glam. Married Andrew Pomeroy of Collaton circa 1520 -
issue 3 sons 3 daughters

Sir George Matthews held the office of High Sheriff of Glamorgan 1545 OFFICE: Knight of the Shire, 1547. (MS. no. 11964, ped. Mathews) was Knighted. RESIDENCE: Radur. (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol. 6 p. 874) Mathew family - Effigies of Sir William Mathew(d.1528) and his wife. The latest of three surviving Mathew family effigies at Llandaf Cathedral
Radyr Court, an imposing manor house on the site of what is now the Radyr Court Inn in Danescourt. The house was used as a court and although it was destroyed by a fire in the 19th century. The three large dungeons survived and can still be seen at the Inn.
His younger son William Mathew( d.1528), was knighted by King Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Sir William accompanied King Henry VIII to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.
The descendants of Sir George inherited a diminishing fortune & the last of the family to live in Radyr, was Captain George Mathew, married Elizabeth Poyntz. The couple departed from Radyr to live on her estates at Thurles in County Tipperary, Ireland during 1625.

LEIGH

2ND daughter of Andrew was Mary who married William Leigh of Leigh Week St Mary .
Issue 2 sons
son William Leigh who married Elizabeth Searle

Week St Mary not far from Bude & Holsworthy.
Son Richard Leigh married Eleanor Bonython in St Columb Major 9 Nov 1601 and her sister Elizabeth Bonython married Henry Pomeroy of Tregony 5 months earlier on 15 April 1600 -parochial records - PR for St Columb Major)

The Leighs of Cornworthy have a connection with William & Mary;s son Richard

Original bundles 1-57 John Lancaster v John Perrott and Richard Leigh: Cornworthy, Devon.

Held by: The National Archives - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions

Date: 1652 Ref : C 10/15/78

Short title: Leigh v Perrott. Plaintiffs: Richard Leigh . Defendants: Robert Perrott and another. Subject: ...

Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Collins. Short title: Leigh v Perrott.

Plaintiffs: Richard Leigh . Defendants: Robert Perrott and another.

Subject: personal estate of the deceased John Perrott , of Cornworthy, Devon .

Document type: three Held by: The National Archives - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions

Date: 1670 Reference: C 6/47/87 25 February 10 James ( 1613) Counterpart lease for 99 years or 3 lives Lessee: Arthur Harris of Churchstow...

Fine: £160. Premises: The Lord's Woodde now in possession of Lord Petre with soil, pasture and

Held by: Devon Heritage Centre Date:1613 Reference: 123M/L499 VOLUME 5Reference: 123M/L499

Description:25 February 10 James 1613 Counterpart lease for 99 years or 3 lives Lessee: Arthur Harris of Churchstow gent. Fine: £160.

Premises: The Lord's Woodde now in possession of Lord Petre with soil, pasture and herbage, reserving timber and staddells or standards, but with power to fell coppice and underwood, and lessee may uproot all trees now growing and the motes or stubs of trees in six Acres, parcel of the wood demised, lying in East side of the same and adjoining the free lands late Leighes now Mr. Crokers, and make clean for meadow or pasture, and use the said trees for the repair and new building of Norton farm house, the cleaned part to be hedged and fenced, the overplus of trees to be at Lord Petre's disposition.
Lives: Phillippe wife of lessee, Arthur and Edward Fortescue sons of Henry Fortescue of Cornworthy. = grandsons of Agnes Harris widow Pomeroy nee Huckmore

Rent 40s., from Annunciation 1613 lessee is to live in Norton farmhouse.

Sig. and arm. seal. Date: [1613] Held by: Devon Heritage Centre, not available at The National Archives

INCLEDON

Wilmot eldest daughter of Andrew married Lewis Incledon & had 10 children

The manor of Buckland in Braunton North devon with an estate called Incledon, belonged to the Incledon family from an early period till the year 1759.

The earliest Incledon records are from the 12th century. They probably lived at the adjoining farm. Buckland was purchased in 1319 and Incledons have lived there ever since. Only once in seven centuries was the head of the house a Webber, because the elder daughter married Philip Rogers Webber of Loxhore near Barnstaple in the mid C18th Webber came from a pewterer family, and both his father and grandfather were Mayors of Barnstaple. Their portraits hang in the Guildhall at Barnstaple.

The Incledons suppled several Recorders of Barnstaple over a period of 79 years. In about 1746 Robert Incledon built Pilton House, Barnstaple, now an old people's home, and his son Benjamin, Recorder in 1758, was living there in 1770. The 1830 Recorder, Robert Newton Incledon, also lived there. The two stone falcons of the Incledon crest stood at its entrance gate, but were later transferred to Buckland. Philip Rogers Webber reconstructed the front of Buck

land in the Queen Anne style, completing it in 1762. They had 16 children, and rebuilt the east wing to accommodate them. His son Henry Webber was Caroline's Great-great-great-Grandfather.

Buckland had 650 acres of farm land and ancient farm buildings including one dating from 1660. The 1841 census lists 35 people living on the estate. While other places in Devon called Buckland are probably named after the male deer, it is believed that this Buckland was Boke-land, indicating that the estate is listed in the Domesday Book.

The manor of Buckland in this parish, with an estate called Incledon, belonged to the Incledon family from an early period till the year 1759.

Heanton Punchardon is the next village where branch of Pomeroy’s held a small manor

CAVILL

Jane Pomeroy daughter of William son of Andrew senior by his wife Mary Bevill

WILLIAM CAVELL bapt 24 Nov 1569 died 19 Dec 1647 married JANE POMEROY of St Columb on 12 July 1571 and she died 26 June 1652 St Kew

Children were
Francis, who died young 20 Nov 1607
Mary who married John Vivian 18th April 1615 at St Kew
Joane who married John Hore 10 Aug 1618 St Kew
In 1628 John Cavell, of Trehaverock, married Jane Robins at St. Mabyn ;

St Mabyn,. Date: 14-Jul 1623 GROOM: John CAVELL of St Eudeye Groom's residence: St. Eudye BRIDE: Jane ROBINS : Widow.

St. Mabyn parishes Colquite, Helligan, Tresarret, Trevisquite Madron Alverton, Boswednan, Corva, Lanyon, Mulfra - close by St kew

**St Kew, 18-Apr 1615 GROOM: John VIVIAN Gent married Mary CAVELL daughter of William Cavell, Esq.

& her sister Johanna married at St Kew 10-Aug 1618 to John HOARE, Esq.

Jane Pomeroy and William Cavell had children included b 1584

MARY CAVILL b 1584 m JOHN VIVIAN b 1584 Christening: 20 Feb 1584/1585 St Columb Major, Cornwall Death: Bef 18 1647 Nov . Father: Thomas VIVIAN Mother: Anne LOWRE

He married 1st Frances BULLER Marriage: Abt 1612 Of, , Cornwall

2nd Mary CAVILL Marriage: 18 Apr 1615 Of, St Kew, Cornwall,

Issue 15 children

Jane VIVIAN Born & Bap. 11 1620-1 Mar . St Columb Major, Cornwall, Buried: 2 Dec 1654 Place: At St Kew Marriage Thomas TREFFRY Marriage: 25 Apr 1641 Of, St Columb Major, Cornwall,

Issue 7 children

JENKYN

The only child of Andrew Pomeroy junior and his young wife Jane Hext to live into adulthood was Anne born 1604 .
She married Peter Jenkyn in St Columb Major in 1628 and had 1 son who married & had 1 son % 5 daughters . The connections are interesting & replete with names of landed families

Anne Pomeroy dau of Andrew Pomeroy junior and wife Jane Hext

Bapt 24 Sep 1605 Newton Ferrers ( Parish Register FMP) died age 78 burial 7 Mar 1682 in St Columb Major Cornwall Bb Source FMP parish register

Married 27 Oct 1628 St Columb Major- recorded on St Columb Major register -

Peter died 25th June 1659 St Columb Major.

Issue 1 son JAMES JENKYN born 25 Oct 1629 married at Weare Giffard on 14 Feb 1648 to Jane Fortesque dau of JOHN Fortescue of Filleigh- (Earls Fortescue of Filleigh ) He died 8 June 1658 his wife Jane died 25th June 1658 & their newborn daughter Frances died on 21 Aug 1658-

They left 5 Daughters as Co-heirs

Anne Jenkyn married Sir John St Aubyn bart.

Mary Jenkyn married Sir Nicholas Slanning Knt. Baronet as his 3rd wife ∆

Mary Jenkyn born 15 may 1650 bapt 18th May 1650 died as an infant

Katherine Jenkyn married John Trelawney

Elizabeth Jenkyn married Sir George Cary of Clovely

Frances Jenkyn no baptism found died 21 Aug 1658 a month after her parents

FORSTER

Edward eldest son of Andrew
married Julyan Forster
son Matthew who died in 1634

The Forsters show that they were for a long time seised of an estate in fee in Stoke Gifford, otherwise called Little Stoke in right of Sybil Forster, and were seised until Berkeley forcibly and riotously disseised them and ousted their farmers and occupiers wrongfully and without any just cause, and still occupies the same, and they can have no speedy remedy by the law of the land considering that Berkeley is of such great might in the county, and the petitioners do not reside in that county.

The Forsters request that letters missive be directed to Berkeley commanding him to appear before the prince's council at a certain day to answer the complaints, and to show his title if he has any, and if he fails to do so that further action be directed to be made as is thought right for the speedy relief of the petitioners.

Places mentioned: Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire; Little Stoke, Glos; Uley, Glos

Humphrey Forster, esq.; Sybil Forster, wife of Humphrey Forster, and widow of Robert Poyntz, esquire.

PITFORD

3rd daughter of Andrew was Thomasine who married William Pitford
No marriage found so far

I have found very little on this family and for a long time wondered if there had been a mistranslation from Putford.

But I did find some records Great PITFORD farm near Winkleigh- close to Great Torrrington and not very far from Abbots Bickington

Pitfords - in Bishops Nymphton in North Devon near Braughton & Barnstaple ,3 miles E.S.E. of South Molton in mid Devon

Ambrose Pitford Birth: 1567 in Bishops Nympton, Devon, Marriage 1 Agnes Denneys : 4 Feb 1593 in Bishops Nympton, Devon,

Joan Pitford Birth: ABT 1536 in Of Braunton, Devon, Marriage 1 Walter or John Wyatt b: ABT 1532 in Of Braunton, Devon, England Married: 17 Aug 1556 in Braunton, Devon

There are several records in A2A which indicate that William Pitford and his wife Thomasina Pomeroy had 3 sons

HEXT
Andrew junior son of William Pomeroy & Mary Bevil
married Jane Hext at St Kew in September 1601

Thomas Hext living in Launceston in 1573 (father of Digory ) was probably the 2nd son of the John Hext who sold Kingstone the house near Totnes, to the Barnhouse family in the 16th century. Thomas was an alderman & Mayor of Launceston & in 1588 his was one of the gentlemen who provided Elizabeth I with money at the time of the Spanish Armada - "March 27, 1588 - £25."

Digory son of Thomas Heckes / Hext Mayor of Launceston whose 2nd wife was Jane Stone nee Callard , mother of Mary Stone 1st wife of Digory Hext and mother of Jane.
Her grandfather was John Stone Born 1535 at St Miniver, Trevigo, Treago, Cornwall, son of John STEPHENS of Stone & Margaret NICHOLLS He married Jane Callard About 1561 in Devon She was dau of John Callard of Callard in Devon & his wife Elizabeth Southcote of Chudleigh .
John Stone & his wife Joan Callard had 8 children
Isabelle Stone wife of Anthony Roscarrock of Crowan ;
Jane Stone wife of Oliver Collins of Launceston
Winifred Stone died 11 JUN 1634 Saint Kew, wife of John Matthew of St Kew
Dorothy died unmarried ;
Honor Stone wife of Charles Prust
Ann Stone 1st wife of Digory Hext son of her mothers 2nd husband
Margaret wife of James Bagg of Plymouth
Thomas Stone married Elizabeth dau of William Harris of Hayne.
After John Stone died in 1573 Jane Callard Stone married Thomas Next of Launceston father of Digory Hext.
Digory Hext married 1st to Anne, daughter John Stone of Trevigo and they had 2 children. The burial register of St Thomas' church, Launceston has an entry "1586, Feb 22nd, Thomas Hecks, the son of Digorie Hecks" he therefore had at least 2 children. His daughter became sole heir and was a considerable heiress having inherited from her grandfather Thomas Hext will in 1595

After Anne died Digory married again on September 13th, 1596 his 2nd wife was Julian Wadham daughter of Sir George Wadham of St Stephen by Saltash & his wife Dorothy Hechin of Hole

Jane Hext married Andrew Pomeroy of Colliton, Devon 30th September 1601 in ST Kew. Presumably, because she was living in the household of her step-grandmother Jane Callard Hext, whose daughter Winifred Stone had married John Matthews, curate at St Kew. Jane Hext Pomeroy & Andrew had seven babies who all died in infancy except A son William born in 1606 who died in 1622 age about 16 & their 3rd child ,a daughter Anne . Mother Jane died nine years later in 1610 age about 25 and was buried in Newton Ferrers. The only child to survive into adulthood & marry was Anne who in 1632 married Peter Jenkyn of St Columb Majo. They had 1 son & 5 daughters. She died in 1682

Thomas Hecks/Hex of Launceston died in 1595 & left lands & money to Jaine (Pomeroy in 1601 daughter of Digory Hecks; Her father Digory, & his brother Thomas & George Hecks. were left tenements and houses. There were also left substantial legacies for his daughters 3 daughters
Florence wife of Mundy, a family that connects to Rialton near Newquay ; Grace wife of Thomas Isaacks (see Isaack Visitation pedigree page 501
Ephue Mrs Francis Holbyn, 2nd son of Richard Holbyn & his wife Philippa Pye,

Thomas Hext Will was witnessed & or drawn up by William Cavill, brother in law to Andrew Pomeroy husband of Jane Pomeroy

Beuill :or Boiville; variously spelt Boville, Boeville, Beeville, and Buvilla—in the Dives Roll it is Biville—from Beuville, near Caen. Two of this name are entered in Domesday: Humphrey de Buiville, a baron in Herefordshire; and William de Bocvilla, an under tenant in Suffolk.

Wolstone Manor was an important estate in North Cornwall is in Domesday Book as being owned by Saewulf before 1066

In 1993 an archaeological survey records a medieval motte, a chapel of St George and a Holy Well. Today the original Manor no longer exists; the farm now offers self catering holidays.
Bevill family held the manor at Killigarth in Polperro, Talland Parish in 1523, St Kew and a manor of Gwarnack in St Allen. John Bevill, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1495 and 1502 , lived at the manor house of Killigarth in Talland parish near Polperro.

Woolstone occurs in several places in England 'meaning Wulfsige's farm' a word that appears many times across the English countryside

John Bevill married Elizabeth Milliton at Killigarth

their children were
born about 1544 Elizabeth, married Henry Meggs
Born about 1546 Agnes, married Walter Kendall
Born about 1548 William Bevill married Jane Arundell
Born 1550 Joan married Humphrey Prideaux
Born 1555 Peter Bevill married Grace Viel. 9-Sep 1591
Their only daughter Elizabeth Bevill married Sir Barnard Greville son & heir Sir Beville Grenville father of Sir Bevill & Sir Thomas Bevill 2 of the West Country's leaders in the Civil Wars.
born 1556 Mary M William Pomeroy,
1558 Phillip Bevill married Elizabeth Berry
Online Parish clerks confirms that it was Peter Bevill married Grace Vyell or Viell

9-Sep 1591 St Breock,

Peter BEVILL, Esq married Mistress Grace VIELL, one of the co heirs of her grandfather William Vyell, Esq.

2 entries from parish register-
Maria 1633 and Elizabeth dau of Edward or Elys both buried at Holberton which is the parish adjacent to Newton Ferrers

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CONNECTIONS to the Pomeroys of Collaton Manor in Newton Ferrers