Eleanor Pollard

THE DATES FOR THESE PROFILES ARE CONFLICTING BUT NOT ALOT OF INFORMATION, THIS DEATH DATE, September 21, 1430, IS LISTED FOR ELEANOR BUT IT IS THE SAME YEAR SHE WAS SUPPOSEDLY BORN AND WOULD MAKE HER DECEASED BEFORE ONE OF THE CHILDREN IS BORN IF THEY'RE DATE IS CORRECT.

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• A view of Devonshire in MDCXXX, with a pedigree of most of its gentry (1845)
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• POLLARD, of Way and Horewood, esq. — Arms. — Argent, a chevron sable, between three escalops gules.
• John Pollard, of Way and Horewood, esq., married Emma, daughter and coheir of Sir John Dodiscomb, knight, and had issue Walter ; who married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William Cornu of Horewood, and had issue John ; who married Eleanor, daughter of John Copleston, of Copleston, esq., and had issue Walter, Robert, and Ann married to John Wood, of North-Tawton, esq. Walter Pollard, of Horewood, esq., married Joan, daughter and heir of Roger Barnes, of Barnshill in Ugborough, esq., and had issue Richard, and Lewis who died sans issue. Richard married Margaret, daughter of John Cockworthy, and had issue Anthony, and Margaret married to William Cruwys of Chulmleigh. Anthony married Petronel, daughter of James Chudlegh, of Ashton, esq., and had issue Richard, Ann, (married to Alexander Wollacomb, of Wollacomb, esq.;) Joan, (to Nicholas Ash, of Sowton, esq.;) Grace, (to John Burneby;) Mary, (to Eyer;) Alice, (to Thomas Gay, of Goldsworthy, esq.;) Thomasin, (to Walter Babington.) Richard married Joan, daughter of Edward Bampfield, of Poltimore, esq., and had issue Anthony, William, Henry, John, Alexander, Ann, (married to Hugh Bury, of Coleton, esq.;) Petronel, Ursula, Francis, and Elizabeth. Anthony married Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Stukeley, of Affeton, esq., and had issue.
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• Sir Lewis Pollard (c. 1465-1526) was Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526[2] and served as MP for Totnes in 1491 and was a JP in Devon in 1492. He was knighted after 1509.[3] He was one of several Devonshire men to be "innated with a genius to study law", as identified by Fuller, who became eminent lawyers at a national level.[4] He was a kinsman of the judge and Speaker of the House of Commons Sir John Pollard (c. 1508-1557). He was also a member of the first group of feoffees of Manchester Grammar School.[5]
• He was a member of an ancient Devonshire gentry family, a younger son of Robert Pollard, second son of John Pollard of Way in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, Great Torrington, Devon, by his wife, a member of the Lewknor family of Sussex. Robert's father John Pollard (whose wife was Alyanora Copleston (d. 21 September 1430), whose monumental brass exists in the parish church of St Giles in the Wood, daughter of John Copleston of Copleston, Devon) settled on him his lands in Roborough, about 5 miles SE of Great Torrington. Risdon states that Sir Lewis Pollard resided at Grilston, in the parish of Bishop's Nympton,[6] before he purchased the nearby manor of King's Nympton to the south. The following were the principal historic seats of the wider Pollard family: ....
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Pollard_(judge)
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Devonshire Families.

References

• The visitation of the county of Devon in the year 1564 : with additions ... Page 170: Pollard < Hathitrust >