Wife name ?

[slightlyfoxed]

Can anyone read the name of the wife for this John Pomeroy in Brixham in 1596. He doesnt come up on FindMyPast or Family search but the wife's name in "difficult" to read.

[Raybistre]

Is it two marriages? The second name looks like Richarde Reveland. Could be the minister didn't think the names of the brides were worth recording.
Ray

[Bookbox]

Sorry, but I don’t think it’s Pomeroy at all.

19. of Aprill weare maried John Kennaway and
Richorde Reveland

Richarde/Richorde is sometimes found as a female name at this date.

FindMyPast has John Lennovaye and Richorde Reveland. While it's possible John's surname begins with L, I tend to favour a K.

[slightlyfoxed]

Thank you. It is a single marriage there is a line drawn between each entry.
Pomeroy is spelled in so many different ways so Im fairly confident it is Pomeroy but Richorde Reveland is a great help. It doesn't come up in FindMyPast but its a start .
Thank you

[Bookbox]

Pomeroy is spelled in so many different ways so Im fairly confident it is Pomeroy but Richorde Reveland is a great help. It doesn't come up in FindMyPast but its a start .

I can understand why you might think it's Pomeroy, but I am pretty sure it is Kennaway.

Here is the burial at Brixham of a John Kennawaye on 24 April 1616, in the same hand.

[horselydown86]

I can understand why you might think it's Pomeroy, but I am pretty sure it is Kennaway.

I agree completely with Bookbox's contention.

The following letters are quite clear and distinguishable in this writer's hand.

e
r
a (when used in mid-word positions)
w

In the groom's surname, e (in positions 2 and 9), a (in positions 5 and 7) and w (in position 6) are found and r is not found.

So it simply cannot be Pomeroy, even before the capital is considered.

[Watson]

I make the last five letters of the surname "awaye", so I see no possibility that it could be Pomeroy.  Bookbox's "Kennaway" seems to be the ticket, only with an "e" at the end.

E.G. Withycombe, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, mentions the use in England of feminine forms of Richard and notes that "Richoard" was "fairly common in Devon in the 17th C.".

[Raybistre]

Richarde/Richorde is sometimes found as a female name at this date.

E.G. Withycombe, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, mentions the use in England of feminine forms of Richard and notes that "Richoard" was "fairly common in Devon in the 17th C.".

I never knew that, hence my suggestion that it could be two marriages. Love learning these things. Thanks Bookbox and Watson for the information.
Ray