The Pollocks in Ireland always seemed to be farmers. Little changed in the move to Australia. Grain and livestock farming are still significant Polloccupations
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This website is concerned with the origins and descendants of Alexander Pollock (1841-1915) and his wife Mary Jane Kilpatrick (1848-1924) from Donegal, Ireland. Alexander & Mary Jane Pollock were recently married Ulster Scots farmers who arrived in Queensland aged 29 in 1870. They soon moved south to the Goulburn Valley of northern Victoria where they settled at Taripta, near Kyabram. In about 1903 they moved with their five sons to newly opened wheat and sheep farming country near Balldale in the southern Riverina.
Alexander Pollock died at Balldale on the 16th November 1915 at the age of 74 years. He was described in the Corowa Free Press as "one of the oldest settlers of Balldale". He was buried at Hopefield cemetery.
Mary Jane Pollock raised five of the eight children born to her. She died at Balldale on the 16th September 1924 aged 76 years. She is also buried at Hopefield.
The five sons all had large families - producing 42 children (an average of more than eight each) - 39 of whom lived to adulthood. These 39 grandchilden of Alex and Mary Jane produced 106 great-grandchildren (plus two adopted). These grand-children of Matt Pollock of Yerong Creek numbered 40, George Pollock of Tallimba 31, Alex Pollock of Wahgunyah 22, Tom Pollock of Quandialla 13, and Robert Pollock of Balldale 2. It is likely that the next two generations has now pushed the number of descendants well above two hundred.
Origin of the Pollocks
Pollock is of Scottish origin, and comes from lands of that name in what was Renfrewshire, a few miles south-west of Glasgow, around the city of Paisley. Pollok and Pollokshaws are today suburbs of Glasgow. In the U.S. the name was often changed to Polk, and the llth U.S. president James Polk was the descendant of Ulster-Scot emigrant Robert Pollock.
Many Scots farmers, particularly from south-western areas of Scotland close to Ulster, emigrated to the northern part of Ireland in the 1600s and 1700s as part of the Cromwellian plantation of the Catholic lands.
Other Pages
- Pollocks in Donegal Ireland
- Kilpatricks in Donegal Ireland
- Arrival & Settlement in Australia
- Matt Pollock (1874-1950)
- Robert Pollock (1876-1916)
- Alexander Pollock (1882-1945)
- Thomas John Pollock (1884-1964)
- George Pollock (1886-1949)