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A Tangled Web Indeed
Looking for connections between John and Andrew of Colliton Pomeroy and better-known tree of  Samuel Pomeroy. There is a little chain of marital connections. These lend a small  insight into the complexity of the landed gentry society in which they  moved.
�Some   Historical Stuff�� ��� Family Connections
Tudor   Cornwall;� AL Rowse 1969 reprint of   1941 edition. An interesting   little note. AL Rowse resided in the Hext house at Trenarran in Cornwall for   a while.
� John Pomeroyof Colliton   married a daughter of Strode. Circa 1510 - 1520
Samuel Pomeroy   married Wilmot Peryam daughter of William Peryam
�� �Sir Thomas Pomeroy was involved in the Prayer Book  Rebellion of 1549, although he is considered a lightweight and his   part something of a schoolboy prank. Whilst involved in the Rebellion he and   his brother Hugh of Tregony where buying up the lands of small   chantries all over Cornwall through the Court of Augmentations [Pat. Rolls   Edward VI] Ultimately he surrendered to Lord Russell, however this was done   secretly, the condition of his pardon being that he betrayed Arundel,   Underhill and other leaders and renounced his popish ways.
Barbara Southcott who married Hugh Pomeroy   on 5 Feb 1544, had a brother Thomas Southcott. He married 3 times and had 24   children.
His 2nd wife Thomasine   Kirkham was born Indio House,in Bovey Tracey, buried 24 Feb 1617/1618 in   Newnham Manor, Plympton St. Mary. Their daughter Mary Southcott married William   Strode on 15 JUL 1581 in Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, son of Richard   Strode and Frances Cromwell. born   Jul/Aug 1562 in Of "Newnham Manor", Plympton St. Mary, and died   on/bef 28 Jun 1637 at "Newnham   Manor", Plympton St. Mary, Devonshire,   about 5 miles from Newton Ferrers
�Many of the ringleaders were hung drawn and   quartered, Arundel amongst them dying at Tyburn in 1550.
? Unto every   one that hath shall be given but from him that hath not shall be taken away   even that which he hath?
Edward Cromwell (4� B. Cromwell)� Died: 1607,� Ireland Marriage 1581,to Elizabeth, daughter of William Upton of Puslinch, Newton-Ferrers in Devon, with whom he had one  daughter, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Upton died 5 Jan l593.
�It holds true even today!��
Sir Thomas Pomeroy  sold Berry Pomeroy in 1548 to pay his  debts, selling to Edward Seymour the Duke of Somerset Lord Protector.
Marriage 2: Frances   Rugge� (d. BEF 30 Nov 1631) ABT 1593
Connecting families
Children:2. Frances Cromwell who married Richard Strowde
Puslinch Manor today
William Peryam was born in Exeter in 1534,   second son of John and Elizabeth Peryam. His family was a well connected; he was a   cousin of Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the famous Bodleian Library in   Oxford. John   Peryam   was a man of mean, who was twice mayor of Exeter (he died during his second   term of office in 1572). William's brother, John, was also twice mayor of the   city and was in office when the Spanish Armada appeared off Devon in 1588.   William was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he was elected fellow   in 1551 at the age of 17. He may have been the father of Wilmot Peryam   who married Samuel Pomeroy.
Sir William Wrey, Knight , Of Trebigh (in St Cleer Cornwall   )  died JUN 1636. He married Elizabeth Courtnay 1600,  daughter of William Courtnay,
Phillipa Wrey married Sir William Upton of Puslinch Newton Ferrers. About 1577
Richard Strode of   Newnham (b 22.05.1528) m. Frances Cromwell (dau of Lord Cromwell) children were
�Edward Cromwell , shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Upton was out of England serving   as an officer in the English armies allied to the forces of the United Provinces,  fighting the Spanish armies of Felipe II. In Dec 1581, The Prince of Orange   sent five companies of  English to guard the town of Meenen, one  included the company of Captain Cromwell.
1.  Sir William Strode of   Newnham, Sheriff of Devon (b 01.02.1561, d 27.06.1637) m1. (18.07.1581) Mary   Southcott (d 1617, dau of Thomas Southcott of Bovey Tracey)
2.  Sir Richard Strode of   Newnham and of Chalmington (b 25.06.1584, MP in 1640) had issue The estate   of Newnham passed down through his descendants
Josias Bodleys   career as a soldier was very similar to that of Cromwell?s. His brother,   Thomas Bodley of Exeter, was the founder of the Bodleian Library. Oxford   wrote in a letter, 24th Nov 1597, to Robert Cecil about Capt. Josias Bodley,he hath followed the wars, in Ireland, and before in the Provinces   United, as likewise of late in services by the sea". He was also well   travelled, having been to Poland and Italy. In Florence he met John Dowland, Lutenist and composer of the Elizabethan Lute song. Bodley was Trench-Master at Kinsale. In Mar, 1604 he was knighted by Mountjoy and appointed director-general of fortifications in Ireland for  life. He died in Ireland in 1618.
marriage 1   Catherine Strode (his cousin ,dau of Sir Robert Strode of Parnham)
m2. Elizabeth Erle
Dionysia Strode (bur 25.11.1679) m. Sir John Drake,   1st Bart of Ashe (b c1619, bur 07.07.1669) m3. Anne Drake (dau of Sir John   Drake of Ashe)
William Strode of   Meavy Church (MP)
John Strode of Tavistock
  Elizabeth Strode m.   (by 1623) Sir John Yonge, 1st Bart of Colliton
+ six other daughters.
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Colyton in  east Devon�� 1500 to 1699
Where does our Irish family fit?�
Is Charles (Chuck) W Pomeroy� right in his feeling that there is a
  connection with the Samuel Pomeroy tree?
This was researched whilst thinking that Colliton I was looking
at was Colyton in east Devon
Walter Younge of Colliton,   Devon (bur 26.12.1649)� m. Jane   Periam (dau of Sir John Periam of Exeter)
In 1539 Henry  VIII beheaded Colyton?s lord of the manor , Henry Courtenay, and his lands  were confiscated.
My feeling, based on no proof, just on  the social coincidence,  the Armorial connection and the close proximity of these Devon families geographically, is that the Colliton Pomeroy's and the Samuel Pomeroy families do connect. See tree links above
The Feoffees.� 1546 Local   merchants and yeomen raised 1,000 marks and bargained with the Crown for the   return of that portion of the estate, which lay within Colyton. (1,000 marks   was about 400 times the annual income of a successful merchant). The community   regained the properties under a Deed of Enfeoffment on condition that an   assembly of Feoffees ensured that all the income was spent on "good and   commendable" uses for the community.
John Pomeroy   the Elder of Collaton Was he brother to Sir Henry Pomeroy,   born about 1415 died about 1490 or was he, and I believe more likely, his son 
( living in 1496)
It is believed that this Chamber of Feoffees formed   England's first town council or local governing body. It established the   first Colyton grammar school in Church House in 1599
John Pomeroy of Collaton ( the elders) g  great grandson was William Pomeroy
born 1606� son of William Pomeroy and Mary Bevill, was baptised in Newton Ferrers 22 Oct 1606,
          where Andrew Pomeroy signed the  parish register as true record of entries
for the year 1614.
The Feoffees were inaugurated in   1546. To this day the Feoffees form the town council and carry out the terms   of the Deed of Enfeoffment for which they are the trustees.
Charles Wilson Pomeroy   researching in Ireland  found John Pomeroy
The original feoffees were:-
29 Jun   1698� A John Pomeroy, gentleman ,   eldest� son of William Pomeroy, Ballinacre,   Co. Tipperary, �John Pomeroy of St Cleer son of William   Pomeroy and Mary Bevill, died in 1618, had two sons who died in Ireland.   So is this John� a son of William b   1606 son of Andrew Pomeroy and Jane Hext.
John   Strowbridge the elder of Howberhayne, Merchant;
John   Strowbridge the younger of Strathhayne (Streethayne);
John Newton of   Willhayne yeoman;
John Newton of   Tritchayne yeoman; Peter Baggewell;
A   gap of about 70 or 80 years separates this William from the known Pomeroy?s   in Cork. Or were these descendant from John Pomeroy who d 1618 whose un named   sons who died in Ireland
Robert   Ffollett of Colyforde, first bailiff;
John Byrde of   Colyton silk & serge maker;
John Morrys   of� Colyton yeoman;
Names   in Ireland associated with Millstreet Pomeroys
Thomas Whyte   of Colyton yeoman;
William   Henry. Robert, Richard, John, Thomas
John Crabbe of   Colyton yeoman;
William Hamlyn   of Colyton merchant;
29 Jun 1698  A John Pomeroy, gentleman , eldest  son of William Pomeroy, Ballinacre Co. Tipperary,
A later reference to Ballinacre indicates this was probably a house in Ballina Tipperary ( pronounced Beal-an Artha)

Richard  Pomeroy in BALLINCUROHIG in 1690.

Another had a Richard Pomeroy in BallMoney in 1718. 

Indented Deed of Lease of Claramore 21 June 1787 to Henry Pomeroy and others. 

14 Feb. 1798 Lease of Claramore demised to Robert & Richard Pomeroy. A later deed (1801) mentions Richard & Robert  his late father.

1798 Marriage Licence Bond Richard Pomeroy and Mary  Dunne.
Deed of 1810 cites deed 25 Feb. 1797 demising a  house, shop etc. to Henry Pomeroy was legally vested in John Pomeroy.

Knockcahill, Harriet Pomeroy�s great grandfather Henry Pomeroy
Claramore On the 465 acres of Clara there were 34 residences.
There were at least 3 Pomeroy households Robert, (son of Richard and Mary Dunne)Mary Pomeroy  his mother Meredith P. his brother
Thomas Pomeroy Shopkeeper in Millstreet. brother of  Robert. Married  Mary Kelleher
Richard Pomeroy Shopkeeper in Millstreet. Possibly another brother. Married Margaret Connor
Henry Pomeroy of Kilshannig Parish near Mallow No relation as far as Harriett Pomeroy in Ireland is aware
Robert Drake   if Colyton;
�John Buckland of Colyton wool merchant;
William   Carpenter of Colyton;
Robert Weston   of Heathhayne;
Nicholas   Hooper of Colyton;
John Maunder   of Colyton cloth manufacturer;
Nicholas   Lecheland of Colyton merchant;
Richard   Dassell of Colyton; John Clarke.
I found a reference to John   Pomery of Colyton, 1601; feoffment re Harding Crafte Lower and Higher Gollard   Close Stoford.
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