Richard Pomery 1525 Cornwall. AALT and IPMs

[goldie61]

Richard Pomery/Pomeroy was married the 13th October 1552 at St Neot Cornwall to Jone Taprell.
This is the earliest piece of evidence for him. They went on to have several  children baptised at St Neot. St Neot registers  start 1545.
The genealogy of much of the early Pomery family is well documented. They were barons at Berry Pomeroy in Devon. Ralph de la Pomeroy was one of William the Conqueror’s Norman knights.
However, I can’t find where this Richard fits into the family.
Even by the 1500s, there were hundreds if not thousands of Pomerys in Devon and Cornwall.
Unfortunately, the family had to sell the lands at Berry Pomeroy in 1547 - bought by Edward Seymour, Lord Protector, and the reins behind the throne of the young king Edward, so it’s understandable that the members of the family would have spread out from Berry Pomery, perhaps ending up in St Neot.

There are many trees on genealogy sites that include this Richard. I’ve seen him given as the son of at least 3 different fathers, the majority of which give him as the son of Sir Thomas Pomery of Berry Pomeroy, born 1504, and his wife Jane Edgcumbe of Cotehele House, but I can find no evidence for this. He is not on any visitation trees as a child of this Thomas.
Frustratingly, many trees on MyHeritsge even have a photo of a painting of Richard and his wife Jone Taprell, (supposedly), but I can find no source information for this. (I suspect one person found this, and many others copied it onto their tree).

‘Thomas Pomery, knight’, Richard’s possible father, died in 1566.
There is an Inquisition Post Mortem for him.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7762712

Is there anyway to see this without sending to The National Archives?
I found a film on familysearch, but I think it’s only an index.

There is a document in Chancery C3/474/46 1559 - 1579, which looks interesting.
A John Pomery v Pastow Tapell. a ‘Pascow Taprell” was buried in St Neot in 1575, and Richard Pomery married Jone Taprell in 1552.


Does any one know their way around AALT?
Is this document, or the IPM for Thomas, on the site?
I have to say I find  the site quite challenging!

Any ideas gratefully received!

I've put this on the Common Room board, as it's really about accessing old documents, and not just about research in Cornwall.

[horselydown86]

The Chancery pleadings on AALT are limited to C 1 as far as C 1/802.  So your record in C 3 will have to be ordered.

As far as I know, there are no IPMs on AALT.

I just did a search for Taprell in the WAALT (wiki for AALT).  It returned seven results, three of which are specified as being of St Neots.

Just use the Search box at the left here:  https://waalt.uh.edu/index.php/Main_Page

ADDED:

There are some Chancery Final Decrees from C 78.  These should be returned by a WAALT search.

However not all Chancery suits reached Final Decree stage.

[Vance Mead]

Some of the Common Pleas indexes (about 1500-63) are not on WAALT. They can be
searched using Google. For example:

site:http://aalt.law.uh.edu/indices/cp40indices/ "pomerey, richard"

[goldie61]

Thanks very much HD and Vance.

Looks like the only way to see these is to order them from National Archives.

That's a handy hint on finding people that might not turn up otherwise Vance.
Do you know if filming more cases is still going on?

[Vance Mead]

No more records are now being photographed. The focus now is on indexing and other research based on the records.

[goldie61]

Thanks Vance.
I thought that may be the case.