WHITCHURCH Nr Tavistock

2018 - 2020 Genuki tells us 

"WHITCHURCH is  2 miles S.E. of Tavistock and a small scattered village  of  6450 acres of land, including 2523 acres are open commons and wastes, on the borders of Dartmoor. 

There are several lead and tin mines, the largest of which is the Wheal Anderton Tin Mine. The parish is in  Roborough Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Totnes, and the Diocese of Exeter. 

Not far away is BUCKLAND MONACHORUM   sometimes called Buckland Drake .

a village 4 miles S. by E. of Tavistock. parish includes a great part of  the large village of Horrabridge, which is partly in the parishes of Sampford-Spiney, Whitchurch, and Walkhampton; 6838 acres of land, including about 2000 acres of open moorland, woodland,  two copper mines and a tin mine and a woollen factory.

 WHITCHURCH near Tavistock   Slate was quarried, and there were several tin, copper and lead mines  which were  worked at different periods. By 1868 Tavistock United Tin Mine was the only one in operation.

More here    The Devon Association.

There was Ralfe Pomery Bb 19 Feb 1592 son of Henry at Shaugh Prior

a  mining district this one  on the south of Dartmoor close to Plymouth

and  Ralph Pomeroye  married Jone Guskett 2 Feb 1601 at Whitchurch 

obviously not the same man but the only one in FMP but possibly a connection

but who this Ralfe was I cannot discover 

 Henrye son of  Ralphe Pomeroy      Bb 25 Feb 1566 at Whitchurch 

Anne dau of Ralphe Pomeroy          Bb 6 June 1568 at Whitchurch 

Jone dau of Ralphe Pomeroy          Bb 23 Aug 1573 at Whitchurch 

Jone dau of  Tamzyne Pomeroy      Bb 20 April 1573


Thomas Pommery married 22 June 1588 to Alice Hedd at Shaugh Prior 

Henry Pomry married at Whitchurch 20 Jan 1622 to Thomsin Bickford 

Whitchurch Marriages

Pomeroy Tamsyne    1584 married William Jope 2 May 1584 at Whitchurch

Pomeroye Ralph       1602 married Jone Guskett 2 Feb 1601

Pomerie  Jane           1615 married Matthew Drake 29 Jan 1615

Pomerye William      1624 marriage Thomasine Blackdown 5 April 1624

Pomerye John           1631 marriage Frances Rundle 28 Aug 1631

Pomery Margarett    1641 married  Andrew  Kingsman 18 Jan 1641

Pomerie William      1649 Marriage Thomasin Adams 10 Nov 1649 

Pomerie John          1660 Marriage Margery Reed 5 Feb 1660

Pomeroy William   1660 Marriage Tryphena Halelldon( Stapledon)  11 June 1660 

Pomery Agnes        1655 marriage Charles Stevens 30 Oct 1655

William  Pomerye  1649 Marriage Thomasin Adams 10 Nov 1649 Whitchurch

William Pomery   23 May 1681 Buckland Monachorum  marriage to Blanch Davy

Births &  baptismsFMP _ 

John Pomeroy may be  John Pomeroy  Married to his wife Alyse  at St Andrews Plymouth 10 Sept 1582

Pomeroy Dorothie   daughter of John Bb 4 April 1585 at Whitchurch

Pomeroy John  son of John Bb 23 Jan 1588 baptism Whitchurch 

Pomeroy Thomas son of John Bb 14 March 1590 baptism Whitchurch

Pomeroy John   son of John  Bb 9 Nov 1661 Whitchurch      

 Guilielmus Pomeroye Marriage  17 Jul 1591 Buckland Monachorum to Anna Creese - Guilielmus = William obviously 

 Guilielmus Pomeroye   Bb  4 Feb 1592 Buckland Monachorum son of  Guilmi Pomeroye

 Elizabetha Pomeroye   Bb  20 Aug 1594 Buckland Monachorum dau of  Guilmi Pomeroye

Peter  Pomeroy              Bb 17 July 1596 baptism  - 

William Pomeroy            Bb 19 March 1602 Baptism

Pomeroy William      son of William Bb 5 Dec 1624 Baptism

Pomeroy Nicholas      son of William Bb 26 Dec 1626 baptis


Whitchurch deaths & burials
 Pomerey  Richard Buried 5 June 1580 at Whitchurch, Devon   

Pomerey  Thomas  Buried 31 Dec 1585 Whitchurch, Devon,  

Pomery    John Buried 19 Oct 1586 Whitchurch,   (adult)

Pomery  Jone  Buried 15 Oct 1602 daughter of Ralfe Pomeroy Whitchurch, Devon, 

Pomery  Ralfe   Buried 22 Dev 1606 at Whitchurch, Devon, 

Pomerie Mareine Buried 29 Oct 1615 wife of John   Whitchurch,  

Pomery    Henrie  Buried 26 Dec 1619  Whitchurch, Devon,  

Pomroy    William  Buried 14 Aug 1635 Whitchurch, Devon,  

Pomeroy  Alice  Buried widow 8th Sept 1637 Whitchurch, Devon, 

Pomerie   George  Buried 31 Oct 1656 son of William at Whitchurch, Devon,
Pomeroy   George     son of William Bb 17 Jan 1650  Buried 31 Oct 1656 

Pommery William      son of William   Bb 23 April 1653  Buried 25 Oct 1656

Pomerie John   son of William Baptised 8 May 1656  Buried 24 June 1658  

Pomerie  Willi  Buried 25 Oct 1656 son of William at Whitchurch, Devon,  

Pomery    John Buried 24 June 1658  son of William Whitchurch, Devon, 

Pomery  Thomasin (Tamsyne ) Buried 1 May 1658  wife of William at Whitchurch, Devon,


Whitchurch BMD from FMP June 2020