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| Richard Anthony (Tony)Pomeroy in Australia has been hunting for our great x3 -grandfather Richard Pomery's origins for a very long time. In 2003 Pat posted a message on the Pomerology guest book and within days there was a message to say that he was in the 1851 census. A very exciting breakthough. This lead us on and in June 2 2003 Annie went to the Devon Records Office and found him in the Bishops Transcripts and in the South West Studies Library she found more of the family in Werrington transcription. Pat contacted the OLPC and by 3 June we had a message from the OLPC in Australia, and we had a whole lot more. ( The OLPC there also descends from a Pomeroy family, one in Farway). The earliet IGI entry for Pomeroys in Werrington in an Elizabeth Pomery born about 1632 who married William Martin there in 1652 and died in North Tamerton between 1672 and 1686. It would appear that Pomeroy's had lived in the parish of Werrington over a considerable time. From the Parish registers of Werrington we discovered that our Richard Pomery was born on 7th Jan 1781 to John and Elizabeth Pomery in Werrington in Devon, now in Cornwall. He had older brothers, William born 1st Oct 1775 John born born 6th Sept 1778 a Elizabeth born on 22 Feb 1784. There was also an Elizabeth buried 29th Nov 1774 but without an age we cannot be sure that she was a sister. Also in IGI there is a John born to John and Elizabeth Pomery in nearby St Stephen by Launceston ; Chr 25 Nov 1770. If he was of the same family he must have died as a baby. Werrington is a parish in the Launceston area of Cornwall and a visit found no village. Just the house, Werrington Park ( in the time frame we are looking at the Manor and Park was owned by the Morice family, Barons of Werrington.) It has a large area of mature parkland, a scatter of large farms, a large mill but no hamlet or community. There is a large rectory close by the church but had been removed at some point inthe past. Possibly inthe 19th century when such things happened at the whim of the land owner. I could find no grave stones to Pomerys in the churchyard. There was a scatter of Pomerys in theParishes around Werrington. Cornish Parishes around Werrington and the Devon Parishes around Werrington. The 18th century was a hard time for country people, maybe that is why Richard went to London Richard was married in Rotherhithe in 1807 to Issot Webber from West Teignmouth . She was born in 1788, daughter of John and Mary Webber. Her family seems to originate in Talland in Cornwall . On his marriage lines there is a witness Elizabeth Giles and Tony in Australia has long felt she might be his sister. I feel that she may well have been a Webber. So now the search is on to find more about John and Elizabeth Pomery and their three other children. So far 2004 no further trace has been found of them Did they move on? Did they stay? Did Richard run away to London or was he sent? Did he go alone or with one of his brothers? He may well have gone to West Teignmouth to work, stone was being taken out of this small port as well as other trade goods. I like to think he went there and stayed with the Pomeroy family in West Teignmouth and met Issot there. How else might they have met? I have yet to discover how they got to London but as trading ships went regularly ro London I would presume by ship. |
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| We made the break through at the beginning of June 2003 and began tracing the line . see progress so far In the Census of 1851 Richard states that he was born in Warrington Devon , which finally turned out to be the parish of Werrington near Launceston. In our process of discovery we have checked the transcript parish registers for Werrington. It is a small parish and there are relatively few entries. The parish clerk has extracted all the Pomery's for us. We have his marriage and his death certificate and the census return where we finally found him . His date of christening concurs with the age he gives on the census. We have been unable to find a Will for him in the will indexes at the Family Record Centre so were very interested in the list of will abstracts that Virginia Graham has transcribed. This proved not to have a will recorded for Richard. However his son Augustus Stephen and his grandsons are included. We have quite a lot of periferal information about Richard. We know where he lived and worked in London and Pat is tracing that with the various sources in London. We know when and where he died in Liverpool . The census return for 1851 fitted him so well that we are satisfied that it is him and it led us to Werrington. Richard and Issot had one son that we have managed to confirm. Living initially in Stepney where he worked at a clerk in the East India Docks their only child a son, my Great x 3 Grandfather Augustus Stephen Jeffery Pomery was born 2 August 1817, some 10 years after Richard and Issott were married. Augustus was married to Sarah Georgiana Moore in 1838. They had eight children and he too started out in the Docks in London and later went to live in Liverpool where he changed his name from Pomery to Pomeroy and took up a clerical post with Royal Albert Docks Authority. **** He went on to become Superintendent of the Offices of the famous Albert Dock of Liverpool, living in Dock House until he retired to Liscard ,Cheshire. In the census of 1881 we find him living in Fountains Lodge Liscard with his widowed daughter- in- law Elizabeth Pomeroy nee Jackson and his two grandsons Edgar and Campbell. They both went to the USA arriving in 1888. We. later found both of them and their wives in Californian census and directories from 1905 onward Edgar married Mattie French in Alameda in California in 1905 and had at least one son, Gordon, born 1906. He became o San Francisco furniture designer. In 2005 we made contact with his grandson Robert Gordon Pomeroy. Campbell married Lena Hanger in Virginia in 1897 they later went to California with their daughter Virginia. More at News |
| Speculation ~ Richard Pomeroy and Isett Webber were married in Rotherhithe,(London) on 20th sept 1807. The marriage was witnessed by Thomas Webber and Elizabeth Giles (the Giles name appears later in the family as a guest in the house in the 1881 census) We believe that Thomas was Issot�s uncle, brother of her father John Webber. Why they were in Rotherhithe is a mystery. It is a port however and this theme runs throughout this family history. Teignmouth was the port through which almost all the granite taken from Dartmoor to build the bridges and docks of London was carried . images of Teignmouth today With a newly discovered sister to Richard named Elizabeth this might lead to an explanation of a recurrance of the Giles name in the family in a census where there is a Mary Giles visiting the family in Liverpool. So its possible that this witness was not just a casual witness or a friend but a relative. this has yet to be proved. Odd little note. The curate that performed the baptisms of most of the famuly and filled in the register in Werrington was one Simon Webber. We believe that his wife, Isset or Issot Webber, is the one found in IGI from West Teignmouth (another port) born in 1788 to John Webber and Mary. John's parents may have been William Webber and Dorothy Skinner who were married in Stoke Damerel in 1761. They had at least 3 sons Thomas, William and John, born between 1762 to 1766 and both parents appear to have been born in Morval Talland Looe area of Cornwall. The Pomerys of our family who appeared in Lewennick in 1720's may have come from the Bodnin area, Linkinhorn or North Hill, this has yet to be shown one way or another BUT where did that family originate? |
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| Both Pat and Annie feel they have Cornish souls. This is a site Annie made about Cornwall |
| In 2003 we have finally broke through the brickwall when the 1851 census found Richard Pomery in London Well, we got one brick out and can peep through the gap! |
| We cannot be absolutely certain but we believe this may be a photograph of Great x 4 grandfather Richard Pomery from Devon |
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| Pat & Annie are 3rd Cousins, and with Richard Anthony,called Tony, in Australia have Augustus Stephen Jeffery Pomeroy (son of Richard pictured left ) great x 3 grandfather; Chuck in Virginia is also related, by DNA but quite how that connection is made we have yet to discover. His family tree goes to Cork in Ireland so some or one of our ancestors from Devon and Cornwall must have gone there before about 1740. |
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