Source: Burke's Armory, 1856

Pomeroy castle restored (left); William the Conqueror (center); his coat-of-arms (right). William's son Henry Beauclerc  had several children with his favorite concubine, Sybella de Corbett, including a daughter Rohesia who married Henry de la Pomerai, Ralf's grandson. By then the Pomeroy family was settled firmly at an early version of this same castle in Devonshire just off the Dart River strategically near the coast. The Pomeroy family lived in the castle as nobles for more than 500 years, the longest single-family occupancy of any castle in all the British Isles. Eventually bankrupt they sold the property to the Seymour's (remember Jane, the 3^rd wife of Henry VIII after he chopped off Anne Bolyn's head who he married despite the Pope's objection to his divorce from Catherine, the reason he broke with the church, remember all that?). The Pomeroy family had a long involvement with the royal court. One Pomeroy descendant several generations later, Elweed, migrated as a young lad to America in the 1630's, settling in Salem, the same place where his 4^th great granddaughter, Frances, was born. This is a VERY conservative family living in the same places nearly forever. Frances must have been somewhat of the rebel, going "out west" to Kentucky to marry a college professor just a generation or so after Daniel Boone opened the frontier west of the mountains. This is about the same time our Sinnock ancestors, Sam Jr.  and older brother George settled in the frontier along the Mississippi River in central Illinois and that Granny White settled in the "never ending forest" of Indiana.