Pomeroy families

William Henry Pomeroy b 22 Sep 1884

Ivan Hurst Pomeroy families 17 February 2021

William Henry Pomeroy, born 22nd September 1884

William Henry, born 22nd September 1884 at 20 Torrens Buildings, Torrens Street, Clerkenwell, Islington (if at home). Baptised William Henry on 2nd November 1884 at the Parish Church of St Peter's Clerkenwell.

Reprise of youth

William Henry was born to Charles and Charlotte Elizabeth Pomeroy. Charles Pomeroy was a Police Constable. He was their first child surviving beyond infancy, and became the big brother to his subsequent siblings.

The family moved when William was under 5 years old, to 104 St John Street, on the junction with Clerkenwell Road. Only 3/4 miles from Torrens Street, and now only just under 1/2 miles from St Peter's Church on St Cross Street / Great Saffron Hill.

Not long after, there was another move to 18 Palmerston Buildings, which was in City Garden Row, City Road, Angel, Islington, Middlesex.

William was last recorded with the family on the Census 1901 at 6 Beaconsfield Terrace as a 16 year old Groom. On 1st April 1902 he joined the Army, the Middlesex Regiment at Hounslow.

Perhaps the family moved to the Prince Albert Public House in 1901/2, or not, as the papers list next of kin as William's parents, Charles and Charlotte of 6 Beaconsfield Villas, Fulwell Road, Teddington, with two brothers, Edward and Albert. There appears to be a change of address to 2 Albert Villas, Princes Road, Teddington.

Charlotte and Charles Pomeroy

Charles Pomeroy b 1854

Super User Pomeroy families 23 January 2021

Charles Pomeroy was born on 30 September 1854

He is my 2nd great-granduncle and is a DNA connection. i.e. on the paper route between me and a DNA match.

He was born in in Giles Cross, Bradford Peverell, Dorset.

His father was John Pomeroy and his mother Mary Ann Bowditch. Read more about Mary Ann in my article about John Bowditch. According to the 1841 Census John and his family, which at the time included 6 children, were living at Coles Cross, about 3 miles away from Broadwinsor, or Broadwindsor. The same place with variations of spelling. A short 1 hour walk along Coombe Water Lane, Park Water Lane, and Common Hill / B3164, and into the village of Broadwindsor. John was an Agricultural Labourer.

The first Pomeroy in the Colonies

Super User Pomeroy families 06 January 2021

The first Pomeroy in the Colonies - Eltweed Pomeroy
1585–1673
BIRTH Before 4 July 1585 • Beaminster, Dorset, England
DEATH 1673 • Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
1st cousin 13x removed

Extract from Great Migration: Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630

The Mary & John left Plymouth, England March 20, 1630 with her unknown Master, arriving in Nantasket Point, now Dorchester, Mass., at the entrance of Boston Harbor on May 30, 1630, two weeks before the Winthrop Fleet arrived.

These families and passengers were recruited by the Reverend John White of Dorchester, Dorset. Nearly all of the Mary and John 1630 passengers came from the West Country counties of Somerset, Dorset , Devon, and West Country towns of Dorchester, Bridport, Crewkerne and Exeter.

The passengers of the Mary and John 1630 founded one of the first towns in New England, Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630 and also founded the town of Windsor, Connecticut five years later in 1635.

However, he is not shown on the passenger lists in that article.

Henry Wrickson 1596

Super User Pomeroy families 06 January 2021

The Henry Pomeroy alias Wrickson breakthrough

6 Jan 2021

Good morning, afternoon, and evening everybody.

I had a wonderful breakthrough day on my Family Tree yesterday. A full day, 8am to 2am, with some breaks in between, but very worthwhile.

Somebody from the Pomeroy Family Association and Guild of One Name Studies told me about Henry Wrickson 1596 being an alias for Henry Pomeroy,

John Pomeroy Gilbert

Ivan Hurst Pomeroy families 28 August 2018

John Pomeroy Gilbert

On Friday (insert date) I received an email from Findmypast. Nothing unusual in that, one comes most Fridays as I have a subscription with Findmypast, together with a number of other sites, to help fuel my Family History hobby (obsession). I could have used Genealogy but I don't think I do enough validation to raise it into that category. Back to the email, in question. One of the new sets of records on Findmypast it proclaimed was for the 'Southern Times and Dorset County Herald'. Part of my close family migrated from there, so it was worth a quick search on Surname Pomeroy. There was one result at the time, an article in the newspaper dated 31 May 1876. Now there are more results but at the time, only the one.

The article was about the collapse of the West of England and South Wales District Bank.