Roy Pomeroy, Film Director

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Given the information that shellyeaq found there is a Jennette Shephard Jobbins marrying a James Bernard Scale 1895 Marylebone London Oct/Dec quarter.

Marriage, St Marylebone Parish Church

30 Oct 1895

James Bernard Scalé 29 Bachelor Upholsterer of 27 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill. Father James Scalé, Upholsterer.

Jeannette Shepherd Jobbins 33 Widow of 23 Henrietta St, St Marylebone. Father Isaiah Lebarre Hanser, Gentleman.

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James Bernard Scale is in the 1901 Census in London with stepsons Arthur W.J. Scale, age 9, and Amos P.J. Scale, age 7.  Both boys were born India, so these seem to fit Arthur & Roy Pomeroy.

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It looks as though James Bernard Scale may have remarried to an Annie Lowndes in Christchurch, Hants in Jun qtr 1914 and died in Bournemouth in 1923 with Annie Scale, widow, as his executor.

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Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the above.

Please shellyesq can you give the details of the passenger list for Roy 1908. Ship, departure & arrival  dates and ports. Can you tell whether he was accompanied by brother Arthur. A link that I could follow would suffice.

Here is the story as I deduce it from the above and other info. And its quite a story!

Roy born in Darjeeling, India as Amos, father William Jobbins, colonial civil servant, mother Jeanette Shepherd nee Hauser or Hanser. Father invalided back to Britain but dies at sea in 1896. However,  mother Jeanette Jobbins marries James B. Scalé Oct. 1895 (before Jobbin dies - divorced?). Sometime before 1895 Jeanette and 2 boys must have traveled to England.

Roy (as Amos) and brother Arthur staying with James Scalé (as Scalé) in 1901 census. 1906 Arthur enrolled Clifton College as Arthur Pomeroy, mother Jeanette Pomeroy - leaves Clifton in 1907.

Roy sails to USA (presumably) using name Pomeroy same as his mother, uses name Roy Pomeroy thereafter.

Therefore sometime between 1901 and 1906, Jeanette and the 2 boys assume the name Pomeroy (possibly the name of an ancestor).  Therefore the Pomeroy that I was originally looking for never existed!

If James B Scalé remarried, then presumably Jeanette divorced him before 1914.

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Going by the baptism of Amos, it looks as though the name Pomeroy was in the mix early on:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGWB-YD6

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Index transcription of the Jobbins marriage record here:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGNG-MG3

You may already have Arthur's baptism:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGWB-YDZ

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I see from FIBIS' transcription of the Times of India's announcement of the Jobbins marriage in 1889 that Jeannette Shepherd Hauser's father was a clergyman, of Bareilly.

A digitised extract from the Indian Missionary Directory has this:

Isaiah L. Hauser. B in 1836, in U. S. A.
E. at Appleton, Wis.
A. in 1861. S- Bijnour, 1861-66: then at Shahjehanpore. Translated
 the Methodist Discipline into Urdu. R. to America in 1867. Is editor
 and proprietor of a weekly journal, the Christian Statesman. Ad. Mil-
 icauhec, Wis. U. S. A.

http://tinyurl.com/cjycqre

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See also this link for a catalogue listing of papers of Isaiah Hauser (1834-1909), and his wife, Jeanette Gallagher Shepherd Hauser (1840-1923), Methodist Episcopal missionaries to India, and of their children Miriam Hauser Rosser, Arthur T. Hauser, and Jeanette Hauser Jobbins:

http://tinyurl.com/c5pr8oa (scroll to page 4)

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Here are the Hausers in Evanston, Illinois in 1880:

I. L. HAUSER White Male Mar 43 Editor Born Penn, both parents born Penn
Jennette do White Female Wife Mar 39 Born Illinois, father NY mother Ohio
Jennette do White Female Daur 18 At School. Born India, father Penn mother Illinois
Reginald do White Male Son 13 At School. Born India, father Penn mother Illinois
Arthur do White Male Son 12 At School. Born Wisconsin, father Penn mother Illinois
Miriam do White Female Daur 4. Born Wisconsin, father Penn mother Illinois.

The youngest child, Miriam, seems to have had Pomeroy as a middle name:
http://tinyurl.com/dxhqwe9