Thank you Linda and John. Ed On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:00 AM, scotch-irish-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Subject: "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster > 1641-1691" Peek/Pook/Peak (John Polk) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:44:38 -0500 > From: "John Polk" <jfpolk@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [S-I] Subject: "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster > 1641-1691" Peek/Pook/Peak > To: <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <9495DC31B1E44FC1884A9629E4B889E9@DG1C3Z11> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; > reply-type=original > > Pollock is a Scottish placename for the area known anciently as > "Polloc" on > the sourthwest of Glasgow. There are still suburbs today known as > Pollockshaws and Pollockshiels in the area. Also Pollock House in > Pollock > Country Park which is a seat of the Maxwell family. (We lost that > land when > we backed John Balliol against Robert Bruce.) The placename was > adopted as > a family name back in the 12th century. The name is generally > prononced as a > single syllable, rather drawn out, in Scotland and Ulster, so the name > Pollock and Polk are pretty interchangeable in 18th century and > before. The > particular spelling depended on the clerk who wrote it down, > sometimes in > different ways in a single document. Pogue is also a form of the > name but it > might also have separate Gaelic origins, as Bell mentions. > > In my own research in Maryland colonial history, in which I have > seen many > original source documents. I have seen Peakes and Polk/Pollocks/ > Pogues but > they appear to be very separate families. > > John Polk > Havre de Grace Maryland > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <lmerle@comcast.net> > To: <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 17:02 > Subject: Re: [S-I] Subject: "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster > 1641-1691" Peek/Pook/Peak > > >> Hi Ed, >> >> On the Muster lists in Derry, 1642, the closest are >> William Poake John Kilner's Foot >> James Poake ditto >> >> Defenders of Derry >> Capt. Alexander Pogue (or Poke) Derry >> Family of Pogue or Poke in Derry -- Alexander's wife, her mother and >> brother were killed by a bomb falling on their house. >> >> Bell "Surnames of Ulster" says in the late 19th century in Down, >> Antrim, >> MOnaghan and Derry that Pollack was still used interchangabley with >> Poag, >> Pogue, Poke, and Polk. The origin of Pollock, he says is not known. >> Pog in >> Gaelic means kiss and is often transliterated at Pogue. >> >> MacLysaght (Surnames of Ireland) as (Mac) Peake, in Irish Mac >> Peice. He >> says peic is not an Irish word and that it is probably from Old >> English >> peac, a thick set man. He says the Mac is kept in its homelands of >> Derry >> and Tyrone. He says elsewhere probably English. >> >> Linda Merle >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Edwin O'Brien" <edlobrien@dslextreme.com> >> To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 2:46:08 PM >> Subject: [S-I] Subject: "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster >> 1641-1691" >> >> Hi Linda. >> >> I wrote a couple of years ago about looking for Peeks in Antrim in >> the >> late 1600s and early 1700s. I had found the family of David Peak >> (b1681, Antrim) and his two sons John and Robert Peek as reported on >> the Family Search Site (IGI). They were listed in the Milrow >> Presbyterian Church records. I hired a researcher to examine those >> records and make some copies of some of the originals. The Peeks >> turned out to be Pooks and I was disappointed. I now know that an ?e? >> was often written to look like an ?o? and that they were probably >> Peeks and that David and his son John were probably my ancestors. A >> John Peak of Prince Edward County, VA was my ancestor and he had a >> brother, Robert, also resident in Prince Edward County and family >> oral >> history says that they were Scotch Irish. Now, getting to the point >> would you look up the name, Peek/Pook/Peak if and when you get a >> chance. I recognize that David would have been too young to be in the >> ?Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster 1641-1691? but perhaps some of >> his relatives are listed. >> >> Thank you. 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