George POLLARD

1831 - 1901  (70 years)

• Name	George POLLARD  [1, 2]
  Birth	1831	Derbyshire England
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1831	Derbyshire, England   [3]
  Birth	1831	Derbyshire, England   [4]
  Birth	Abt 1832	Illston, Derbyshire, England   [1]
  Birth	1832	Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England   [2]
  Name	George Polland  [4]
  Name	George Polland  [3]
  Residence	1841	Ilkeston Part, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England   [4]
  Residence	1841	Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England   [2]
  Residence	1841	Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England   [3]
  	Age: 10
  Residence	1851	Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England   [2]
  Residence	1851	Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England   [2]
  Residence	1861	North Shields, Northumberland, England   [2]
  Residence	1871	Bedlington, Northumberland, England   [2]
  Residence	1901	Winlaton, Durham, England   [2]
  Residence	1901	Winlaton, Durham, England   [1]
  	Age: 69; Relation to Head of House: Boarder
  Death	1901	Wansbeck Northumberland England   [2]
  Person ID	I7478	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Thomas POLLARD,   b. 6 Sep 1795, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England d. 14 Jun 1872, Cotmanhay, Ilkeston, Derbyshire (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Martha POLLARD,   b. 1792, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom d. 12 Aug 1852, Cotmanhay Derbyshire England (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2974	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary MCCLOUD,   b. 1838, North Shields Northumberland England d. 1917, Bedlington Northumberland England (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	16 Aug 1858	Saint Nicholas, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England   [5]
  Children	1. Thomas Hardwick POLLARD,   b. 1860, North Shields Northumberland England d. 1925, Ashington, Northumberland, England (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. William McCloud POLLARD,   b. 1876, Bedlington Northumberland England  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. John McCloud POLLARD,   b. 1877, Fleckburn Bedlington Northumberland d. 1904, Bedlington Northumberland England (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. David Jones McCloud POLLARD,   b. 1881, Bedlington Northumberland England d. 1884, Bedlington Northumberland England (Age 3 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - 1861 - North Shields, Northumberland, England Residence - 1871 - Bedlington, Northumberland, England Residence - 1901 - Winlaton, Durham, England Residence - Age: 69; Relation to Head of House: Boarder - 1901 - Winlaton, Durham, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  From website Old Ilkeston: Giving evidence to the Children Employment Commission in 1840/41 as an eleven-year-old coalminer at Barber and Walker’s mine at Strelley, Patrick Pollard (George's older brother) stated that he had worked in the pits from the age of nine, had to walk two miles for a six o’clock start, worked until five in the evening with no dinner break, and earned a shilling a day driving the asses. Patrick’s younger brother by two years was George, who, aged nine, walked to the same Strelley pit as Patrick, did the same work for the same hours and got the same pay. His education had also followed the same path as that of his elder brother though George could not write. In April 1856 George walked into the Bath Street chemist shop of George Purcell and purchased a few ounces of oxalic acid. The chemist warned him to take great care with the compound which George said was for use in his trade as a cordwainer. It can legitimately be used to ‘clean’ grubby leather before it is further treated. However this was not his true intention. George believed that he had recently been ‘spurned in love’ and a quick drink of the acid would relieve his broken heart permanently. But no sooner had the mixture slipped down his throat and the subsequent and severe effects been felt than George realised his mistake. He cried out for help which was fortunately and quickly available. The cordwainer was saved!! Within a few years he had left the town for North Shields where he married a local lass.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2502] Ancestry.com, 1901 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Class: RG13; Piece: 4763; Folio: 7; Page: 5. Record for George Pollard [S2379] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;), Database online. Record for George Pollard [S2537] Ancestry.com, 1841 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Class: HO107; Piece: 189; Book: 3; Civil Parish: Ilkeston; County: Derbyshire; Enumeration District: 8; Folio: 41; Page: 33; Line: 1; GSU roll: 241293. Record for George Polland [S2404] Ancestry.com, 1841 England Census, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;;), Database online. Class: HO107; Piece 189; Book: 3; Civil Parish: Ilkeston; County: Derbyshire; Enumeration District: 8; Folio: 41; Page: 33; Line: 1; GSU roll: 241293. Record for George Polland [S2458] England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ,"index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N6G2-FD1 : accessed 6 May 2012), Mary Mc Loud, 1858.