From The Historian’s Corner: From Lifford to America  Scotch-Irish and Pollock Beginnings in America – Part 2 In previous article we described the situation in Ulster which led to the initial exodus of some of our Scotch-Irish ancestors and their arrival in Somerset County, Maryland, in the period 1683-1690. It would really be nice to […]

From The Historian’s Corner: From Lifford to America  Scotch-Irish and Pollock Beginnings in America – Part 1 A great many of our Pollock ancestors came to America from Scotland by way of Ireland as members of the ethnic group that we now call Scotch-Irish. In Ireland they are known as Ulster-Scots. As such they were

From The Historian’s Corner: George Black’s History of the Family of Pollock Perhaps the best known work on Scottish genealogy and family histories is “The Surnames of Scotland – Their Origin, Meaning and History” by Dr. George Fraser Black, first published in 1946. This book is a serious work of scholarship, over 800 pages long, written over

From The Historian’s Corner An Addendum – A Visit to the Earthwork Fort at Pollok I am very happy to include here a report from James Polk Farber, Sr., a Clan Pollock member, who just returned from a visit to Scotland. Jim took the opportunity to visit the earthwork fort at Pollok which I described

From The Historian’s Corner In The Beginning –  The Earthwork Fort At Pollok Our family took its name, Pollock, from the place name of an area along the Whitecart River in Renfrewshire bordering on what is now the southwestern edge of the city of Glasgow. In present day maps you will find the name Pollockshaws

From The Historian’s Corner: The Pollock Lineage of Alexander Hamilton The recent bestseller about Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is a lively account of a fascinating man who made profound contributions to our Republic in its formative years. The achievements of Hamilton are particularly remarkable in that he rose from almost total obscurity and penury to the heights of prominence by

From The Historian’s Corner: A Tale of Two Polks – Civil War and Aftermath Our guest author, James Polk Farber, describes his family around the time of the U.S. Civil War. This monograph details the background and very differing histories, during and after the Civil War, of two of my kinsmen from the line of

Clan Pollock Historian’s Corner For a number of years The Pollag, the Clan newsletter, has been blessed with the writings of John F. Polk, Ph.D., our Clan Historian. John loves his family, his clan, and Clan Pollock and we are all the better off for it. We have collected a number of the articles Dr. Polk