SOUTHCOTE
Southcote, or Southcott, originally of Southcote in Winkleigh. —
An ancient family the Southcote's appear in the reign of Henry III. The elder branch became extinct in the sixteenth century. The Southcote family into which the heiresses of Keynes & Pury, & a coheiress of Bosum.
John Southcote, appointed one of the justices of the King's Bench in 1562, was son of a younger brother of the last Southcote at Winkleigh.
Barbara Southcott daughter of John Southcott of Indiho married in 1543 1st wife of Hugh Pomeroy of Ingsdon in Ilsington by whom he had 6 daughters & 5 sons – she died in 1563
Their granddaughter Barbara Pomeroy married Stephen Southcott in 1611 & subsequently married Arthur Seccombe whose daughter Maria Seccombe married her brother John in 1621 Lynton
Jane Callard was daughter of John Callard & his wife Elizabeth Southcote dau & heir of William of Chudleigh, married John Stone . She remarried after 1573 & her 2nd husband was Thomas Hext merchant & Mayor of Launceston. She was mother of Mary Stone who married Digory Hext eldest son of her 2nd husband. Their daughter Jane Hext married Andrew Pomeroy at St Kew in 1601)
Indiho
In 1219 Henry de Tracy, feudal baron of Barnstaple and lord of the manor of Bovey Tracey, gave the church and some lands within the manor, including Indiho, to St John's Hospital in Bridgwater, Somerset. The endowment was confirmed in 1227 and continued until the Dissolution of the Monasteries circa 1540.
Indiho, Bovey Tracey may have been a grange farm supplying the Bridgewater monastic settlement.
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Indiho and Ullacombe, both in the parish of Bovey Tracey, were granted in 1544 to John Southcott of Bodmin and John Tregonwell of Middleton. The earliest recorded secular inhabitant of Indio was John Southcott (d.1556), who in the words of the Devon historian Pole (d.1635): "Bwilded a fayre howse & dwelled theire". He was a Clerk of the Peace for Devon, and was the 2nd son of Nicholas Southcott of Southcott, in the parish of Winkleigh, Devon.
As steward of Thomas Cromwell he obtained several monastic holdings in Devonshire on favourable terms. An ancient document exists, in connection with the Dissolution accounts, which refers to "Rent of a messuage in Yondyeo leased on 15 July 1531 to John Southcote, his wife Joan and Johns’s heirs for ever, 26s 8d".
Above the original, possibly monastic, house & below the Victorian that replaced it
The Southcotes of Indiho, in Bovey Tracey, & of Mohun's Ottery were descended from a second son. Mohun's Ottery was sold by Thomas Southcote, then the representative of this branch, in 1678. At Collumpton is a monument without date, said to be for the last heir male of the Southcote family; the last probably of this branch.
Sir George Southcote, of Shillingford, eldest son of Thomas Southcote, of Indiho, by his third wife, married a co-heiress of Cole, of Buckl& Touissaints, & was ancestor of the late John Henry Southcote, Esq., who sold Buckland, & died in 1820.
Southcote, Cole connects to Reynell & Hody are but a few with whom the Pomeroy family married.
Sir George Southcote, of Shillingford, eldest son of Thomas Southcote, of Indiho, by his third wife, married a co-heiress of Cole, of Buckl& Touissaints, & was ancestor of the late John Henry Southcote, Esq., who sold Buckland, & died in 1820.
Another branch of this family, descended from a younger son of Southcote of Indiho, was of Calverleigh, which was sold before 1700 to Sir Henry Fane: a co-heiress of Robins married into this branch.
A younger branch of the Southcotes of Calverleigh settled at Dulcis, in Kilmington, in consequence of a marriage with the heiress of Frye. The heiress of the elder son of this branch brought Dulcis to the Hallets.