St Budeaux & Budockshide
St Budeaux is one of the ancient parishes of Plymouth Saint Andrew,
Stoke Damerel, East Stonehouse, Saint Budeaux, Eggbuckland, Tamerton Foliot, Plympton Saint Maurice, Plympton Saint Mary and Plymstock, which make up the modern City of Plymouth,
within the ancient County of Devon,
The centre of settlement in St.Budeaux was originally around the parish church, standing on a splendid site overlooking the river Tamar. The church is famous for being the the place where Sir Francis Drake married Mary Newman, in 1569, and also as the burial place of his wife.
The present church dates from 1563, probably built upon the site of an earlier church to one side of the remnant of the village green, not far from the route of the busy A38 as it passes through Plymouth (The Parkway) en route to the Tamar road bridge. The Manor of Budshead formed an important centre of business. Remains of the manor house and outbuildings can still be seen at the head of Budshead Creek, where it joins Tamerton Lake.
The Church at St Budeaux has a monument to its builder, Roger Budockshead Esq ob: 1576
Budshead was Bucheside in Domesday Book, with variations on the name Budockshide between 1242 and the C15. The name means 'the hide of land of St Budoc'; a Cornish saint who gave his name to the parish. A small ovoid enclosure on Warren Point, 1.2km to the west, may have been an early Christian site associated with the veneration of this saint, possibly dating back to the C5th-C7th; it is possible that the site of Budshead represents a very early farmstead belonging to it.
The present church was built on land purchased by Roger Budockshide in 1566.
Budshead Manor of which just a footprint & the gate remains.
Budshead or Buttshead Barton. A narrow lane (Cliffe Lane) led up the hill to St. Budeaux from the farms on the Tamar at Ernesettle. The two farms, Great Ernesettle and Little Ernesettle were both named after William Ernstell, a freeholder of Budshead, who owned land here in 1428.
In the middle of 19th century there were more than ten farms in St. Budeaux, including part of the Manor of King's Tamerton with Bartons and Manor Houses at Barne and Kinterbury and part of the Manor of Budshead.
Robert BUDEOKSHED we learn from Prince (pp. 143-'4), was born in Devon about 1360, "at the ancient mansion-house of the family, called by the same name, lying in the parish of St. Budeaux on the east side of the river Tamer, over against Saltash .
In his piety Robert was the sole founder of the parish church of St Budeaux and was buried in his own church.
As far as we can work out , as of 2024 , there may have been an Anne & an Agnes Pomeroy ,
two names that are frequently interchanged, which adds to the confusion.
This is a work in progress
The family of Budockshide of St Beaudeax by generation
William Budockshide Birth: 1210 in Godrevey, Gwithian, Redruth, Cornwall, OR was he of Budockshide? Spouse Unknown had Children
Alan Budockshide b: 1245 in Godrevey, Gwithian, Redruth, married had children
Nicholas Budockshide b: 1270 in Godrevey, Gwithian, Redruth, spouse Joanna b: 1275 in Cornwall,had children
Thomas Budockshide b: ABT 1298 in Godrevey, Cornwall, married Elizabeth b: ABT 1300 in Godrevey, Cornwall,had children
Their daughter Elizabeth married Sir John Bassett co hier to his uncle Phillip Beaumont who died age 30 in 1473
Nicholas Budockshide b: ABT 1324 in Godrevey, married Cicely de Trevalard b: ABT 1328 in Godrevey had children -
there is a Trewellard in St Just in Cornwall.
William Budockshide b: ABT 1355 in Godrevey, married Joanne Prowze b: ABT 1359 in Godrevey,had children
Thomas Budockshide b: ABT 1386 in Godrevey, married Joane Trenkreek b: ABT 1390 in Godrevey, had children including...
Robert Budockshide b: ABT 1417 d circa 1452 who married in Godrevy, West Penwith of Cornwall to Agnes de la Pomeroy probably his 2nd wife when she was age 12 or 15
they had children
Elizabeth Budockshide married John Amydas
Thomas Budockshide son and heir who married Margeret Hallwell
Phillip Budockshide married Margery Smith but died without heirs
Winifred Budockshide
Agnes Budockshide married Oliver Hill of Shilston
Their son Thomas Budockshide born about 1447 married Margeret Hallwell
whose son Anthony married Elizabeth Strowde dau of William of Panham
whose son Roger Budockshide married Frances Champenowe
their children were
Winifred Budockshide who married William Gorges
Ann or Agnes married Oliver Hill of Shilston and had 6 children
Elizabeth Married John Amydas
Phillip married Margery Smith & fought in France alongside Henry Champernowne He died without children.
Feb 1573. Lease to Agnes Hill, wife of Oliver Hill, and Arthur Hill and Roger Hill, sons of Agnes and Oliver, of (1) the tithes of fish in the parish of ...( presume St Budeaux )
(Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office. 1939. Page 4.)
Winifred married William Gorges (later Sir William) of Bristol, Vice Admiral of the Fleet; a Gentleman Pensioner of Queen Elizabeth, a member of the Gorges family of Wraxall in Somerset. - more of Winifred below
The Gorges family in the Elizabethan era included Sir Ferdinando Gorges, founder of the Province of Maine,
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After Robert Budockshide’s death in about 1452 his widow, Agnes, waited almost 2 decades before she remarried. In 1478 she married Nicholas Stukely as his 2nd wife . They had a son William Stukely born a year later in 1479 and a daughter Elizabeth before Nicholas died in 1488
Budshead Mill - the King family, were millers was a tide mill. operated by tidal waters trapped in the mill pond at high tide,and allowed to escape to drive the millwheels as the tide fell.
Clearly, this was a 24 hour a day job, since the mill could only operate when the tide was low, whether that was in the day or at night.
Local historian Marshal Ware recorded that Budshead Mill was fitted with three pairs of stones for grinding wheat, barley and oats, and was built by John Gonk in 1791 for George Leach, the owner of the farm, wh rented the Mill and tidal basin of over 6 acres to him for a nominal consideration in the first three years.
Subsequent owners were Richard Hall Cross of Pennycross, in 1798, followed by Lord Ashburton in 1840, and Earl Compton, his kinsman, succeeded him.
His tenants were Walter King (1805-1869) followed by William King (1832-1912). William King retired from the milling business prior to 1887, when Budshead Mill was taken over by Harold Doney, the last miller to run the mill; it finally closed in 1927.
The Mill was admirably situated with regard to river transport links up and down the rivers Tamar and Tavy since it was situated just inside Tamerton Lake, just a few hundred metres from its mouth on the River Tamar and accessible on every high tide.
The great granddaughter of Robert Budockshide & his wife Anne Pomeroy was Winifred Budockshide born in Godrevey, to their grandson Anthony & his wife Elizabeth Stroud .
Her dowry gave the Manor of Budockshede to her husband Sir William GORGES of Charlton Knight) B circa1530 in Charlton Manor, Greenwich, Middlesex.
He was son of Sir Edward GORGES of Wraxall & Mary POYNTZ . Knighted in Ireland in 1579, Vice Admiral of the Fleet in 1580 (Hen. VIII) Constable of the Tower of London. Dec 1584 at the Tower Of London, when he died and was buried although I cannot discover why. Not listed as a prisoner but neither is he listed as one of the Constables of the Tower of London which is even more curious !
Children
Tristan GORGES (Esq.) M Elizabeth COLE 2 Feb 1571/2, St. Budeaux. Had 10 children .Captured by Francis Drake his cousin Richard Drake entrusted Tristam with the custody of Don Pedro de Valdez captured in during the attempted invasion by the 1588 the Spanish Armada.
Tristan took Don Pedro to the Tower of London where he detained as a a trophy in some comfort and finally repatriated in 1593 for a ransom of £1500 .
Robert GORGES Arthur GORGES (Sir) Edward GORGES (Sir) Elizabeth GORGES
Husband Sir William Gorges Between 1584-1585, a commission was appointed to examine Sir William Winter, consisting of Burghley, Francis Walsingham, Sir Walter Mildmay, chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Lincoln who was Lord Admiral, the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Hunsdon, who chose a jury of sea captains: Sir Thomas Cotton, Sir William Gorges, Sir Francis Drake, Richard Bingham, Martin Frobisher, Fulke Greville, Carew and Walter Raleigh, Henry Palmer, George Beeston and Thomas Ellis. The Commission found Sir William Winter "at fault". This meant even less of the Winters in naval management circles.
1585 was a busy year indeed...but William Gorges was dead by then apparently
St Budeaux - a majority of the surviving ruins of the Manor House appear to date from the late C16-mid C17, when the Gorges family lived there.
In the late C17-early C18, Budshead was occupied by the Trelawney family, Sir John Trelawney laying out 'extensive formal gardens' there in the 1720s.
Church has memorials to
Roger Budockshead of Budockshead Esq ob: 1576
Sir William Gorges Kn: ob: 1583
Dame Winifred Gorges, ob: 1599
Tristram Gorges of Budockshead Esq: ob: 1607
Mrs. Elizabeth Gorges ob: 1607
The past - waterside at ST Budeaux, the Mill and Manor
An interesting letter of his wife, the Lady Winifred, may be seen among the Landsdowne Manuscripts, 109, foL 187. It is as follows: —
Cousin Hicks, — Though I clame nor know any debt due, yet finding this among many others of greater value, I pray you keep it for a remembrance when occasion shall serve to speak a good word to the Lord Treasurer, who ought to be pricked in confidence to helpe me, considering how many paynfull journeys Mr Gorges served in his chargeable sute & long delayes, what toyle bellowed on the Tower which I nor any of mine might enjoy. If I could have forgotten for every thousand but a hundred, it w<* have pleafea me, though the recompense had been (malle. I have beene & am very ficke, wd fayne go to Bathe to get helthe, but my purse is fo weake I am not able. I lye in an odd corner of my Lady Russiell's as much as I shifte to pay hir rente.
I spoke to my Lord; he will go to His Majelty— a Tutor wanting helthe & money (hall get little at the Courte but more griefe. I hope if any wd remember his Honour, he w*1 shewe some pytyfull favour. If you will be the instrument you (hall ern onner for a recompense, besides the poor widowes prayers. I doubt not but God will prosper you the better for my hartes commendations. bid you farewell. My lodgings by Russell Houfe this VI of April.
Your cosin & friend, Winifred Gorges. Endorsed: Lord Stafford.
The Lady Russell above mentioned was her sister in-law.
The Lady Winifred's appeal, it is pleasant to record, was not unnoticed since in the Signet Book in the Public Records Office. under date of April 6th, 1586, appears the following entry:
“ A gifte to Ladie Winifred Gorge of such forfeitures as may happen to the value of £300. Moreover, as (he “ w* fayn go.” (he evidently went “ to Bathe to get helthe,” since .... (he died there and was buried at Bath Abbey Church in 1599.
Vide alfo Lansdowne Manufcripts, XLIX. fol. 28; Ibid., “Observations on a Seafight,” by Sir Wm. Gorges ; Ibid., Burghley Papers, British Museum.
AJP note - Cousin Hicks, ,could be Thomas Hicks, Hickes or Hext , Mayor of Launceston d 1595 - His granddaughter Jane Hicks married a Pomeroy in 1601. Her father being Digory Hicks who also became Mayor of Launceston, dying in office in 1600, who had married his 2nd wife Lady Julia Wadham daughter of Sir George, just across the Tamar at St Stephen By Saltash in 1596.
Date: 1504 - 1515
Leonard Pomeroy Merchant and Mayor of Plymouth in 1623 connects to St Budeaux. It seems to me its highly likely he had business dealings with Ferdinand Gorges whose great great grandmother was a Pomeroy.
In the year 1620 King James 1 granted a charter to the "Northern Company", consisting of the Earls of Arundel and Warwick, other noblemen including Sir Ferdinando Gorges and certain private gentlemen who were called "The council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the planting and governing"-" of New England in America." Full details of this patent and its history may be found in the publications of the Maine Historical Society.
Under this patent, on Dec. 1, 1631, the rights "to fowle and fishe" on a grant of land including Cape Elizabeth and Richmond Island were granted being signed by the Earl of Warwick, Edward Gorges and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, (great grandson of Winifred Budockshide daughter of Ann Pomeroy by her 1st Husband Robert Budockshide)
His early involvement in English trade with and settlement of North America as well as his efforts in founding the Province of Maine in 1622 earned him the title of the "Father of English Colonization in North America," even though Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.
"Thos. and Nic. Sherwell erected, founded, and established the Hospital of Orphan's Aid" in Plymouth City.
Leonard Pomeroy was a member of the Council in 1612, and Mayor in 1623.
On the 22nd of March, 1630, the ship "Johnathan of Plymouth," of 150 tuns, is mentioned as owned by Nicholas Sherwell and Abraham Colmer. "Mr. Fowell," probably John, one of the witnesses to the sealing and delivering of the indenture, was "Town Clarke" of Plymouth in 1612.
Source: The New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Vol. II; Dover, NH; July 1904
Notes from Alma.
Nicholas Stucley of Affeton: married first Thomasin Cockeworthy of Yardscombe, and widow of Robert Chudleigh. She died 1477. He was son and heir, aged 16 years at this mother’s death. they had son and heir.
> Nicholas married 2nd Ann, da. of Sir Henry Pomeroy of Bery Pomeroy, and widow of Robert Budockshyde.
> they had Anne M William Dennis.; William, M Joan Stowell; Mary, m. Henry English.; Elizabeth, M. Thomas Oore of Taunton.; Christopher: M Mary da of Edward Forde of Plymtree:
> ELIZABETH STUCLEY (d.c.1526)
> Elizabeth Stucley (Stuckey/Stucle/Stukey/Stewkley) was the daughter of Nicholas Stucley of Affeton Devon (1451-May 27, 1488) by his second wife, Anne Pomeroy. She was born no earlier than 1478 and no later than 1489.
Before 1512, Elizabeth married Christopher Fleming, 8th baron Slane in the Irish peerage (1473-August 1517), but she was not the mother of his son and heir, James, variously said to have been born in 1508 or 1510. Together, Lord and Lady Slane they founded a friary at Slane.
In 1518, following Slane's death in London, Elizabeth married Thomas Dudley, a member of Cardinal Wolsey's household. She had inherited the manors of Highbray and Credihoo in Devon for life but had to take her case to the Star Chamber to win control of them. Dudley and his wife, Lady Slane, seem to have held the wardship of Thomas Fitzgerald, one of the late earl of Kildare’s younger sons, and in 1519 were paid by the duke of Buckingham to give it up in his favor.
Some online records state that it was Elizabeth's mother, Anne Pomeroy, who married Thomas Dudley, but Buckingham's accounts are quite clear that Dudley's wife was Lady Slane, not her mother. She died before April 7, 1526.
Sir William Gorges resided at Charlton Manor, and role to distinction in the British navy. His name appears in the roll of royal penfioners, 1556-1582.He is mentioned in the Landsdowne Manuscripts, Britisih Museum, as Captain under Admiral Winter in 1560. Six years later he was a volunteer in the war between the Hungarians and the Turks. In a letter of September 20th, 1568, from Maximilian II. to the queen, the latter is requested to how favor to the bearer, William Gorges, who has well behaved himself at his court, and during the last expedition againft the Turks. He soon returned to England, as we find him granted a license in 1572 to import barrelled fish, and in 1579 was knighted in Ireland by Sir William Drury. The next year he was sferving as admiral of the fleet on the Irish coast. On his return to England he captured a noted English pirate named Derwall.
He married in March, 1565, Winifred, daughter of Roger Budockihead and Frances Champemoun, aunt of the Gilberts and of Sir Walter Ralegh. His death took place in 1584 in the Tower of London, where he was buried.
Alma LaFrance found this which she felt confirmed that Anne Pomeroy who married Robert Budockshide was sister to Thomas, Richard, John, Elizabeth & St Clere and therefore daughter of Henry Pomeroy & Alice Raliegh rather than daughter of Edward and Margaret as others have recorded
John Courtenay of Molland's testimony in Thomas Stewkley's Proof of Age tells a different story for Elizabeth Pomeroy Courtenay's parentage (as well as that of Anne Pomeroy Stewkley, Thomas's stepmother):
"John Courtenay of Molland (a juror aged 46 and more) says that the said Thomas is aged 21, and this he well remembers, because the said Nicholas [Stewkley] had issue the said Thomas by Thomasine his wife, and a year and more later had issue by her a daughter called Joan, and again a year or more later another daughter called Margaret. And afterwards the said Thomasine died, and the said Nicholas married Anne the relict of Thomas Butside, one of the daughters of Edward Pomerey, esq., and sister of Elizabeth late the wife of Humphrey Courtenay, esq., deponent's uncle.
And he says that eighteen years have elapsed from the time when, after the death of the said Thomasine, the said Anne took the said Nicholas to husband; and this he knows well, because the said Nicholas and Anne a year after their marriage had issue a son William Stukeley, who is now seventeen years old. And he well remembers the foregoing particulars because he has been constantly at the house (conversans in domo) of the said Nicholas since the marriage of the said Nicholas and Anne, and has known the said Thomas Stukeley all the time." [CIPM Henry VII, Volume 1, p. 559]
It also make me wonder if Robert & Anne lived in St Budeaux near Plymouth rather than the very remote Gwithian in south west of Cornwall
