The Pomeroy family was given manorial lands by William the Conqueror. In Devon they held Ash (Bradworthy) ,Ashcombe Aunk, Berry Pomeroy,
Bradworthy,Brendon, Bruckland ( Brendon)� Caffyns, Cheriton,� Brendon)
Clyst St George, Curtisknowle,; Dunkeswell, Dunsdon;
Dunstone, (Widecombe in the Moor) Gappah, Great Torrington, Heanton, Heavitree, Highleigh, Holcomb, Huxham, Keynedon, Lank, Combe Mamhead, Mowlish Peamore ,Raleigh Tale Sheldon ,Smallridge ,Southweek, Stockleigh Pomeroy, Strete ,Upottery, Washfield, Weycroft ,Yeadbury.
Ingsdon came into the family by marriage in circa 16th Century.
They also had Tregony in Cornwall and acquired further manors and lands in St Columb Major in 1600 when a Pomeroy married a Bonythan, of St Columb Major.
Collaton Pomeroys
Later Sir Thomas was involved in the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549, although he is considered a lightweight and his part something of a schoolboy prank. Whilst taking part of this Rebellion he and his brother Hugh of Tregony were buying up the lands of small chantries all over Cornwall through the Court of Augmentations,investing half the amount gained by the sale of his lands. The rebellion was fiercely repressed and he narrowly a grisly execution at Tyburn . Sir Thomas was imprisoned in the Tower of London remaining there long into the reign of Elizabeth I . He died in the Tower in 1567 .
I have not yet discovered how the Pomeroy family came to live at Sandridge, or who owned it around 1560 or before, as I found a Thomas Moore there about that time. However there were several Devonshire Moores who married Pomeroys.
The Cornish Pomery's at Tregony ,and the� land-owning line at St Columb in Cornwall and the Pomeroys of Ingsdon in Ilsington in Devon also became extinct over time.
I am currently looking at the St Columb Major in Cornwall branch having received a copy of that tree from Thom Montgomery in California.The family having come from Colyton in Devon with some connection in Ireland. This makes it an interesting tree to research.
In Ireland the Pomeroys ,the cadet or younger sons branch of the Ilsington family, were elevated to the peerage and became the Viscounts Harberton .This is the last and only line that DNA can definitely connect with the Ancient line
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