COPLESTONE
of Yealmpton

Begun April 2024


COPLESTONE

1463 july 12     William Bourchier of Fitz Waryn knight , John Denham, Henry Pomeroy, John Cheny, St Clere Pomeroy and William Champenoune were dispatched to arrest  John Coplestone gent and bring him before the king in Council

1602 Richard Pomeroy of Ingsdon married Anne /Agnes Coplestone daughter of Henry of Bowden in Ermington .
They had 4 sons & 5 daughters all were under age when he died in 1616. 

Agnes then married James Lowman Esq  of Whitstone in Feb 1619 in St Mary Major church in Exeter

John Pomeroy a Farmer, son of James a farmer & OTP of Woodbury Salterton married by banns in 1862 to Sarah Coplestone dau of Richard Copplestone a farmer in Woodbury Salterton

Edward Chichester 3rd son of 9 daughters & 7 sons of Sir John Chichester & Gertrude Courtenay , afterwards Viscount Chichester, married Anne Coplestone heiress and inherited Eggesford through her in 1606. Their issue became Marquise of Donegall & Baron Templemore
 2nd wife Mary Denham

Lowman of Whitstone Pedigree page 533 Visitations
James was eldest of 7 sons of Phillip Lowman by his wife Anne Giles dau John Giles of Bowden ( the richest man in Totnes  )

The co-heiress of Pomeroy of Ingsdon:  

TRichard Pomeroy & His wife Agne or Anne  had  3 daughters & 4 sons

Amy ; Elizabeth b 1608 & died 1642 & Agnes Bb1612 died 1617

sons were THOMAS the heir  Richard  b 1604 ; Henry B 16906 & Hugh who married Frances Vaughan

Thomas mthe heir  attended middle Temple in 16289 Marrued Ist Mart Drew who  died without issue presuabley i child birth the Jane family unknown . Thomas died in May 1662
his children by hias 2nd wife were the last at Ingsdon

Sir John Stowell, knight. v. Francis Moore, clerk, and his wife Jane, Geo. {George?} Irish and his wife Agnes, Henry Sheeres and his wife Maria, Jane Pomeroy.:

 Value, &c., of the barton, demesne, and manor of Engesdon (Devon), late of Thomas Pomeroy
Date range: 1667 - 1669.  Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives


Immediately after of their father  Thomas in May 1662, Charles and Thomas Pomeroy sold Ingsdon estate inpart to W. Gasconthe bulk to John Stowell who  bought  the barton, (now called Burns Farm), & the demesne of  the manor of Engesdon /Ingsdon.  Stowells family M.Ps for Ashburton & farmers at Bickington.

 
Thomas Pomeroy & his 2nd wife Jane - 4 daughters who were co-heiresses.
 After Thomas's death in 1662 the widowed Jane  married Rev Francis Moore         see right

Agnes Married George Irish. Alive 1667.  

Maria   married Henry Shears.
 Jane born 19 June 1641 married in Bickington in 1668 to  Rev Richard Woolcombe of Bickington  

see panel right
Elizabeth married twice  1st to John THOMAS Esq of Langford Budleigh in Somerset. Died 1689
daughter Grace born 1654 married  Alexander Blanchflower, Gent., daughter of a co-heiress of Pomeroy of Ingsdon .
their children took the surname Flower


In 1701 an Elizabeth Pomeroy  of Bickington married  Walter Couch in Bickington Feb 1701 Without certificate of banns. Putative son  James Couch Bb 19 Apr 1703 at Bickington. Elizabeth was widowed  in 1706 

Charles was the eldest son & heir.

To the Fowerteenth Interry. 14th  this Deponent sayeth that there was a survey for the sale of the Barton and Demeasnes of Engesdon aforesaid Caused to bee published by Charles Pomeroy the heire and Thomas Pomeroy his brother two of the def’ts, to be held att the New Inn by Draper’s Crosse  And sayeth that the said survey was obstructed by the absence of the said Charles Pomeroy who as this Deponent hath heard was perswaded to withdraw by one William Easton by which meanes the said survey was not held  And sayeth that there were seuralrl pesons came thither to the said survey with an Intent as hee beleiveth to profer money att the said survey, but were therein disappointed by the meanes aforesaid 
And more to this Interry hee Cannot depose

Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission E 134/19&am...

&
 Reference for previous message. Quoting disposition showing Charles was  heir. 

Item were not you present when Charles Pomeroy sonn & heire of ye said Thomas Pomeroy Esqr deceased did contract & agree with the Complt. to grant & conuay to the complt. ye Barton demesnes and Mannor. of Engesdon   is not ye. paper now shewed to you ye contract between [them]   is not yor name subscribed as a witnes therto 


Held at New Inn in North St Ashburton - see below now a chemist shop


Rev Francis Moore who married Jane , the widow of Thomas Pomeroy.Gent.

Rector : Exeter St Leonard 6/11/1661 - 26/10/1671   resigned
Perpetual Vicar  Bovey Tracey 27/12/1668 until his death 

Prebendary : Exeter cathedral, prebendary 19/06/1669 until his death.
Rector Whitestone  8/9/1671 until  1/06/1681 his death
Source C of E Database
Note Whitstone which was where the 2nd husband of Agnes Coplestone,  James Lowman was from & where they may have lived after their 1619 marriage

Notes
John  Stowell Bb 1704 Ashburton  son of Hugh Stowell MP for Ashburton 12  times
William Stawell Birth 5 Jan 1668 Baptism 21 Jan 1668 North Huish son of Hugh Stawell& his wife Elizabeth . He lived at Herebere a farm just south of  Bickington & close to Ashburton. He was several times MP with Thomas Reynell of East Ogwell
Herebeare is an isolated farm  east of Bickington
Wiils
1666. The last Will of Samuel Tidball of Ashburton, Gentleman. 2Oth May, 1666. To the poor there, 3. To sister Martha Tidball he leaves all -his fee-simple lands in Ashburton, with remainder to Hugh Stowell, Esq., and his heirs. Residue to said sister Martha, who is Sole Executrix.   Witnesses Wm. Denet, Dorothy Griffin.

Proved I3th July, 1666.l.
Hugh Stowell was of Herebeare in the parish of Bickington, was of a younger branch of the Stawels (pronounced Stowel) of Cothelstone, Som.  his immediate relatives were long resident at Herebeare.nesr Bickington

STRAYS
Thomas Pomeroy Year 1682 Type Administration bond, inventory

 Knighton, Beer Hackett County Dorset England Occupation -

Series title Probate records of the court of the Dean of Salisbury 

Date 1682   Series P5 Archive Wiltshire and Swindon Archive Archive reference P5/1682/79  Source Record set Wiltshire Wills And Probate Index 1530-1881


Notes DREWE

Sir Thomas Drew (died 1651), his eldest son and heir, who served as Sheriff of Devon in 1612 under King James I, and was knighted at the coronation of King Charles I.

 He sold Killerton to Sir Arthur Acland (died 1610), Knight,  of Acland in the parish of Landkey, Devon, who used it as jointure for his wife Eleanor Mallet.

 

Having sold Killerton, Sir Thomas Drew moved his family's residence  to Broadhembury, where in the words of the Devon historian Sir William Pole (died 1635) he "hath builded a fayre howse in this place & hath large demesnes & nowe dwelleth theire".  

 The Grange, which remained long after the seat of the Drewe family. 

Thomas Drewe (1635–1707), eldest son and heir, Sheriff of Devon 1688–9 under King James II and Tory MP for Devon 16 May 1699 to 1700. 

He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1652 and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1655. Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, Devon, formerly of Raleigh, Pilton who built the surviving grand mansion of Youlston Park.When he died the Drew estates passed, presumably under a tail male, to his younger brother

In 1661 he married Margaret Prideaux (1631–1695), daughter of Sir Peter Prideaux, 2nd Baronet (1596–1682), of Netherton, Farway, Devon, MP for Honiton in 1661, Sheriff of Devon in 1662 and a poet. 

He left no surviving male children, only two daughters, the eldest  

Elizabeth Drewe became wife of Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet (died 1717),    

Mary Drewe dau of Thomas Drew & his wife  Elenaor Huckmore of the Sharpham, she was daughter and co-heir of William Huckmore.
Mary Drewe married Thomas Pomeroy circa 1636 and a year later was dead, presumably in childbirth 


Ingsdon POMEROY pedigree from 1602 until the sale of the estates in 1663

Daughters of Thomas Pomeroy of Ingsdon by his 2nd  wife  Jane later wife of Rev Francis  Moore

 Maria  married Henry Sheer  where & when unknown possibly before her father died in 1662 . In 1657 Henry Sheere Henry son of Christopher, Thorverton, Devon, gent (deceased) was  apprenticed to Lancelot Rider, on 8 Jun 1657of the Fishmongers' Company London
 Apprenticeship Abstracts, 1442-1850

Christopher Sheere gent of Thorverton near Crediton died 1687
 court record: case concerning legacy, involving Dennis Melhuish, legatee, and Elizabeth Gill executrix of Will.
A Henry Sheere buried 1674 at Ipplepen 

 
Agnes   married George Irysh of Ashburton. 7 Dec 1655 at Buckfastleigh by banns   

George Irysh gent died 1675 at Buckfastleigh; court record: Robert Warren and Richard Eales cited to show inventory and account

 son George Bb 18 May 1658

 An Agnes Irysh was buried in wool at Broadhempston  25 Oct 1684  4 miles from  Ashburton


Jane Bb 1641 married Rev. Richard Wolcombe 1668


Elizabeth married twice
In 1701 to Walter Crouch in Bickington widowed in 1706
Date unknown to  John Thomas of Langford Budleigh , Som.  daughter Grace Thomas married Alex Blanchflower of Kingsbridge 

 

A Charles Pomery married Anne Pomeroy
 20 Nov 1655 in London

  

Ambrose  buried 1645 in Ilsington probably died as an infant  t sister Jane was baptised in 1641 



WHERE DID THE POMEROYS GO
AFTER THIS ?

Hugh Pomeroy married Frances Vaughan
 daughter Welthen Bb Bickington 28 Jan 1648  who was married at Withycombe Raleigh (Exmouth)  on 29 Sept 1668 to William Gilham