Capt. Robert Bruce POLLOCK b. ABT 1635 Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland d. BEF 1704 Somerset Co., Maryland

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Prefix	Capt.
Birth	Abt 1635	Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland
Gender	Male
Immigrant?	Y
Religion	Presbyterian
Died	Bef 1704	Somerset Co., Maryland
	Will dated 1699, proved 1703
Age	~ 68 years
Person ID	I5940	Pitards and Lansdales
Last Modified	30 Jun 2010

Father	Robert POLLOCK, Jr., d. 1675, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Family ID	F4202	Group Sheet

Family Magdalen TASKER, b. Abt 1635, Ballindrait, Ireland , d. Bef 20 Mar 1726, "White Hall," Somerset Co., Maryland (~ 91 years)

Married 1658 Ireland

Children

	1. John POLK, b. Jan 1665, d. 1707 (~ 41 years)
>	2. William POLK, b. Feb 1667, d. 1740, "White Hall," Somerset Co., Maryland (~ 72 years)
>	3. Ephraim POLK, b. Apr 1669, d. 1718 (~ 48 years)
>	4. James POLLOCK, b. Apr 1671, Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland , d. 1727, Somerset Co., Maryland (~ 55 years)
	5. Anne POLK, b. 6 May 1673,
	6. Robert POLK, Jr., b. Jun 1675, Somerset, England ,
	7. David POLK, b. Sep 1677,
	8. Martha POLK, b. Aug 1679,
	9. Joseph POLLOCK, b. Sep 1681, d. Bef 10 Jun 1752, Dorchester Co., Maryland (~ 70 years)

Family ID F4191 Group Sheet

Notes

Perhaps the best history of the family's story in American is the great book entitled Polk's Folly. Note that "Bruce" as a middle name is probably a later confabulation, perhaps to connect him to Scottish royalty. In any event, this is a well-attested family. The line on this site proceeds through his fourth child James.

There is disagreement over his father's and his grandfather's names. I've seen Robert and John. See the sources below. Polk's 1912 volume gives little if any documentation. This family should appear in Burke's Peerage (and Burke's USA, b/c of President Polk), though I haven't looked at this yet.

Robert fought for Cromwell in Col. Porter's regiment (Col. Porter was his wife's first husbant) and left before or at the Restoration. He seems to have immigrated to Annapolis, Maryland bet. abt. 1670 to 1680. See the Passenger Immigration index, 1500s to 1900s; original source [ULSTER GENEALOGICAL & HISTORICAL GUILD]. "Interest List." In Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild, no. 9 (1986), pp. 1-42. He was in Maryland by 1687, when he patented two tracts of land in Somerset County: Polke's Lott, on the north side of the Manokin River, and Polke's Folly, nearby.

Note how his children's names change: some are Polk, some are Pollock. This family is the common ancestor of Pres. James Polk (via their son William Bruce) and Leonidas Polk as well as the main Pollock line on this site (via James).

Aside from other sources cited, here is a bibliography--some will be more precise and helpful than others, for sure:

* William Harrison Polk, Polk Family and Kinsmen. 1912.

* Mary Winder Garrett, "Pedigree of the Pollok or Polk Family from Fulbert the Saxon (A. D. 1075) to the Present Time." Published in several issues of The American Historical Magazine, 1896-1899. Copies of much of her correspondence are kept at the Filson Library in Louisville, Kentucky, under the Polk/Pollock vertical family files.

* Burke's Peerage and Burke's Presidential Families

* Lloyd Welch Pogue, Pogue/Pollock/Polk Genealogy As Mirrored in History. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1990. xxxvi + 710 pages.

* William M. Polk, Leonidas Polk Bishop and General. 2 vols. 1893. This has been reprinted.

* George Crawfurd, A General Description of The Shire of Renfrew Including An Accounting of The Noble And Ancient Families. Glasgow: John Smith & Co., 1818.

* William M. Metcalfe, A History of The County of Renfrew. Alexander, Paisley, 1905. [Contains information on medieval Pollocks, though there is no clear connection to this family.]

* A Boyd Scott, Old Days and Ways in Newton Mearns. Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1939.

* Thomas C. Welch, Eastwood District History and Heritage. Glasgow: Eastwood District Libraries, 1989.

* William Anderson, The Scottish Nation. Edinburgh: A. Fullerton & Co., 1860.

* Mrs. Frank M. Angellotti, The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee. Columbia, TN: James K. Polk Memorial Association, 1984.

* Alex Pollock. Letters, notes, documents and pedigrees collected together by Alex Pollock of 1939, compiled by E. A. Langslow Cock and enlarged upon by the late Kennet Pollock now in the possession of Andrew Kennet Pollock. 1939. [5]

Sources

[S402] Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Lines," and a Genealogical Record, Mary Polk Branch, (Chicago, IL: Joseph G. Branch Publishing, 1912), 55.
[S407] Polk Family and Kinsmen, William Harrison Polk, (Kentucky, 1912), ch. 2 etc.; 64-68 (his will).
[S516] Polk's Folly: An American Family History, William R. Polk, (New York: Anchor Books/Random House), chs. 1-3, especially.
[S519] The Pollocks . . . The First 900 Years . . ., Richard Horace Pollock, (Middletown KY: privately published), 41-50.
[S516] Polk's Folly: An American Family History, William R. Polk, (New York: Anchor Books/Random House).

Capt. Robert Bruce POLLOCK[1, 2, 3, 4] Abt 1635 - Bef 1704

Capt. Robert Bruce POLLOCK^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}
Abt 1635 - Bef 1704