WILTSHIRE.
 

    Salisbury is the capital with Ancient trackways & Roman roads  leading to & from Salisbury
 to the historic towns of Winchester, Silchester, and Dorchester

 




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Salisbury  has a famously beautiful cathedral & is the county city for Wiltshire
The original iron age site for the cathedral  at Old Sarum is close by as are  the Neolithic sites of Stonehenge and Avebury .

 Salisbury C14th cathedral  is famed not just for its great age & beauty but also its famously tall 404 foot spire.  The old town has five gateways giving access  by the High Street Gate, St Ann's Gate,  Queen's Gate, and St Nicholas's Gate.  

 POMEROYS  FOUND.  (Jan 2022)

24 Nov 1582  Mary Pamere married Hendry Younge at Chippenham St Andrew

4 Feb 1596 Katherena  Pomerye  a servant girl  buried Wiltshire

1610 Alice Pomeroy of Mere in Wiltshire  Grant of administration of her Nuncupative Will Probate records of the court of the Dean of Salisbury;  Probate grant 1610 

Chippenham 30 miles from Salisbury & anciently the seat of the kings of Wessex,

John Pamere John son of John Pamere Bb 27 July 1600 in Chippenham

James Pamere Bb 6 Oct 1604 St Andrew Chippenham parents not recorded

Wyllyam Pamere Bb 24 Oct 1605 Chippenham parents not recorded


Sarum marriage licence bonds
County Wiltshire Country England Record set Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds

1672 Grace Pommery at Beer Hackett licence to  marry William Dowle 20 April 1672 Both OTP

1741 George Pomroy husbandman, sojurner in Lyme Regis licence bond on 21 Sept 1741 to marry to Ann Matthews of Whitchurch ;
 bondsman Walter Pomeroy, a tailor from Symondsbury

1749 Anne Pomerey at Lyme Regis 3 March 1749  licence bond to marry  John Cosins of Lyme

1766. JOHN POMEROY   bachelor; occupation militiaman, of Wilton paid bond on 8 May 1766 to marry Anne COOMBS  spinster of the parish of Trowbridge Wiltshire; Bondsmen Richard Weaver, a clothier of  Trowbridge & William Brewer gent ; of Trowbridge .

1795 Richard Pomroy age 46 a widowed clothier of Beaminster on 17 Aug 1795 gave licence bond to marry Elizabeth Gell age 44 spinster of Beaminster
 Bondsman James Hoare a clothier of Beaminster

Pomeroy & Pomery & its variations can also be written as Pomere & Pamore, Pawmere when the Y is sounded & written as an 'e´:
numerous variations arose when scribes wrote what they heard


27 July 1600 John son of John Pamare baptised at St Andrew Chippenham in Wilts

 6 Oct 1604 James Pamer son of  ?  baptised St Andrew Chippenham in Wilts

 1605 Wylyam  Pamore buried at St Andrew Chippenham

17 Nov 1614 Dorothy Pommery dau of Linerd Pommery of Ryme was buried at Holy Trinity Bradford on Avon

Linerd has to be Leonard of Ryme Intrinsica in Dorset    showing connections 

I found Pomeroys living in Weymouth & Melcombe Regis inland at Ryme Intrinseca & at Bere Hackett in Dorset some 25 or 30 miles inland from Weymouth .

Christening  14 JUN 1646 Beer Hackett, Father: SAMUELL POMERY  born during the Civil War Period he would have been 20 in 1666 and the Anglo Dutch wars.    burials St Mary Weymouth none earlier than 1751-1760

3 Aug 1760; Susanna POMEROY widow

8 Jul 1762; John POMEROY of Weymouth

 The Will of Anthony SMITH - 24 April 1760 West Lulworth Dorset -(near Swanage & Weymouth Dorset)

.....Rent due to me from William Pomeroy of Greenwich in the County of Kent for my Two Houses in Greenwich aforesaid And also all Moneys due to me from the Custom House at Weymouth for Seizures Sallary or otherwise

Thomas Pomery  Year 1635 Record  Census Place 

A 1635 census of Salisbury shows one Thomas Pomeroy, with 2 small children, living in Gigant Street, St Martin in Salisbury
Gigant Street - the local MP John Bayley a prosperous merchant  owned houses in Gygant Street, Brown Street  & Dragon Street in Salisbury as well as the nearby farm of Bishop’s Down and the manor of Combe.
The street  still exists but the old C14th  houses are gone, demolished in a C20th redevelopment.
In the same  census , in an adjacent street, Ivey or Ivy Street,  was a widowed Joan Pomeroy , a pauper, who received 6d in alms. Was she perhaps his mother ?

Source Wilts Record Society vol.31. Poverty in Early Stuart Salisbury by Paul Slack  Archive reference WRO/S.C.A / Record set Wiltshire Social & Institutional Records 1123-1968 Category Directories & social history / Subcategory Social History / Collections from England, Great Britain

There is no indication of status of the dwellings in this transcription but like all towns ands cities crammed with people  and poverty  with alleys, courtyards and narrow lanes leading running through them;   poverty ruled & they were pretty grim. 


The Swann Inn  with the spire of Salisbury Cathedral in the background  

Probate & Wills 1500+/- 40 years 1592 Probate of a Will of John Pomeroy of  Ryme Intrinsica Dorset Occupation Husbandman

Series title Probate records of the court of the Dean of Salisbury Date 1592 / Series P5 /  Archive- Wiltshire and Swindon Archive Archive reference  P5/6Reg/4B Source https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/wills_search.php Record set Wiltshire Wills And Probate Index 1530-1881

Pomeroy William 1688 Baptism son of Robert at Wilton, Wiltshire, Eng

Pomeroy Robert married Susan Luke 9 Aug 1715 at South Newton Wilts

Pomeroy Elizabeth Burial 8 April 1718 dau of Robert & Susanna in South Newton, Wiltshire, 

Pomeroy Elizabeth  Baptism dau of Robert & Susan 24 April 1719 at Hindon, Wiltshire, Eng


Burials

8 Dec 1740; Nany POMROY

11 oct 1750 Mary Pomroy

Marriages 

6 Nov 1748; Jerimiah JACOBS  Married Elizabeth POMROY

13 Nov 1748; Evan EVANS  married Tamy POMROY


2 Feb 1619  John Pomere married to Edith Wynth  at Steeple Ashton Wilts 

1 Feb 1620 John Pamore married to Edith Mythy  at Steeple Ashton Wilts  

15 Dec 1632 William son of Robert Panmore baptised at Cricklade St Mary Wilts 

27 Oct 1633 Andrew  son of Richard Pomroy baptised at St Martins Salisbury

25 feb 1621 Clementine daughter of Richard Pomroy  buried St Martins Salisbury

13 Sept 1624 John Pomroy a 10 day pass…wandering from Salisbury to Penryn Cornwall ( 158 miles away near Falmouth )  

Wilts Record Society vol.31. Poverty in Early Stuart Salisbury by Paul Slack

21 Nov 1641 Anne  dau of Thomas Pommery baptised Salisbury St Martin

12 Feb 1643 John son of Thomas Pomery baptised Salisbury St Martin

17 Feb 1650 Thomas Pomeroy buried St Edmunds Salisbury 

1656 Andrew Pomeroy married Margaret Basteed 8 March 1656  at  St Edmunds Salisbury Wiltshire

1661 Charles Pomeroy son of Andrew buried 16 Oct 1661 in St Edmunds Salisbury Wiltshire ( St Edmunds church is now an arts centre.)

April 2024. Weymouth / Melcombe Regis

FMP Thomas Pomeroy of Melcombe Regis married Mary Russel 4 June 1706 at Buckland Ripers Dorset
 Buckland Ripers is a hamlet 4 miles north-west of Weymouth.
Children. 

Did they remove to WELLS ??
Alexander  Bb 6 Nov 1715 son of Thomas Bb at St Cuthberts ,Wells
 James Bb18 Aug 1717 son of Thomas at St Cuthberts ,Wells
 Joseph Bb 23 March 1719 son of Thomas at St Cuthberts ,Wells
 Susannah Bb 16 Oct 1720 dau of Thomas Bb at Salisbury
Did they e return to the port of Weymouth
wife Mary died in Melcombe Regis in 1731buried 6 Oct 1731; Mary POMROY wife of ??? Pomroy (Thomas)

M 12 Jul 1733; Thomas POMROY married Susannah MOORS in Melcombe Regis
 He died a few weeks later buried 25 Aug 1733; Thomas POMROY in Melcombe Regis
 9 months later their child was born & baptised Ann on Bb 23 Apr 1734;
 Ann POMROY dau of Susannah Pomroy (widow) Melcombe Regis


Susanna Pomeroy died & was buried 8 Aug 1760 in Melcombe Regis

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Fuggleston with Bemerton Wilts
  1753 Thomas Pomeroy & Elizabeth Smith were married 9 July 1753

1861  Census.  53, Stroud Common, Silton, Mere, Dorset,
Thomas Young   Head    86  B 1775    Pauper B  Bourton, Dorset, 
Elizabeth Young   Wife  72  B 1789  Pauper  B Silton, Dorset,
Mary Ann Pomroy   D in Law 36    Linen   Factory   B Silton,
William Pomroy Son  26  Jute Weaver  B Beaminster, Dorset,
Robert Green Grandson 12  Ag Lab  B Silton, Dorset,