Arthur Pollock, of Grangemouth and Glasgow

1780 - 1870  (89 years)

• Name	Arthur Pollock
  Suffix	of Grangemouth and Glasgow
  Birth	25 Dec 1780	Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland
  Census-Household Member	1851	Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Scotland - Broome House
  	Role: Household Member
  Residence-Occupant	1851	Broom Estate, Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Broome Estate
  	Role: Occupant
  Death	30 Jan 1870	Lismanny House, County Galway, Ireland
  Christening	31 Dec 1880	Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland   [2]
  	POLLOCK ARTHUR THOMAS POLLOCK/JANET WILSON FR29 (FR29) M 31/12/1780 571/ 10 24 Mearns
  Gender	Male
  Residence-Occupant	1830s	Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, Scotland
  	Broom House
  	Role: Occupant Broom House Broom house was built in the 1830s by John and Arthur Pollok of Pollok, Gilmour Ltd, a firm established by Allan Gilmour and the Pollok brothers in 1804. The partners first traded in timber with the Baltic, Scandinavia and Russia and later developed a thriving lumber industry in eastern Canada where, by the mid 1830s, they employed 5,000 men and were said to own over 130 ships, the largest fleet of wooden hulled ships in the world. The house is now used as a private school, Belmont House.
  		Broom House
  Occupation	Renfrewshire, Scotland
  	Partner in Pollok Gilmour & Company
  Residence	Grangemouth, Sterlingshire, Scotland
  Residence	Lismanny House, County Galway, Ireland
  	Irish Estate
  	?tab? Pollok (Lismany) - At the time of Griffith's Valuation Allan Pollok was the owner of considerable property in various parts of east county Galway. He was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Donanaghta and Kilquain, barony of Longford as well as in Ahascragh, barony of Clonmacnowen. Pollok was originally from Scotland and had purchased extensive estates in county Galway in the Encumbered Estates Court in the early 1850s, including the two Burke estates of Glinsk and Creggs in the parishes of Ballynakill and Kilbegnet, barony of Ballymoe. A large portion of the Burke estate was sold to Allen Dowell in 1813 for ?30,000. Edmund Dowell sold his estate of 4,401 acres in 1851. It was purchased by Pollok who also bought portions of the West, St.George, Bisset, Eyre and Daly estates in the barony of Longford. Pollok's main residence was at Lismany, near Ballinasloe. In the 1870s he is recorded as holding over 29,000 acres in county Galway as well as a small amount of property in county Dublin. In 1881 he was succeeded by his son John, who married a daughter of John C. R. Bingham, 4th Lord Clanmorris. John's representatives owned over 1000 acres of untenanted demesne land at Lismanny in 1906. They held over 500 acres of untenanted land in the Eyrecourt area as well as the houses at Ballynamuddagh and Cloghbrack.
  _UID	0081A18B30C34E4B8A75E69B72EC8809A84F
  Person ID	I38017	Lanark County Origins
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas Pollock, of Fa'side,   b. 1731, Neilston Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Living
  Family ID	F12783	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Barbara Thomson,   b. 1787, St Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. 1821 (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	24 Apr 1820	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	THOMSON BARBARA ARTHUR POLLOK/FR2700 (FR2700) 24/04/1820 685/1 540 345 Edinburgh
  Children	+ 1. Margaret Pollock,   b. 3 May 1821, Lochliboside Estate, Uplawmoor, East Renfrewshire, Scotland d. 2 May 1866, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Connacht, Ireland (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F12784	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 24 Apr 1820 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Death - 30 Jan 1870 - Lismanny House, County Galway, Ireland Occupation - Partner in Pollok Gilmour & Company - - Renfrewshire, Scotland Residence - Irish Estate - - Lismanny House, County Galway, Ireland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S166] Northamptonshire Family History Society, England, Northamptonshire Marriages Transcription, ((findmypast.com)), (accessed 29 Feb 2020), entry for Allan Pollok Jr. household, Broom House, Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; Parish: Mearns; ED: 4; Page: 5; Line: 11; Roll: CSSCT1851_122; Year: 1851 (Reliability: 3). [S137] ? DC Thomson Family History, England, Shropshire Burials Transcription, ((findmypast.com)), "Church registers - Old Parish Registers Births and baptisms." Arthur Pollock, accessed 29 Feb 2020. (Reliability: 3). [S15] (Scotland), ScotlandsPeople, Banns & Marriages, OPR and other Churches, (National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. ScotlandsPeople . /www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.), "Edinburgh Parish, Midlothian, Scotland," Arthur Pollock and Barbara Thomson; accessed 29 Feb 2020 (Reliability: 3).