John Pollock, of Fa'side & Glasgow

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1830s, Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, Scotland; Broom House
• _UID: 8D5FE15D64874F1286538A0F4C7BB7AB1153
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; Scotland - Broome House

Notes:

Residence:
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.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member