Margie, would your James Pollock happen to be the son of William Pollock and Janet Watson, sister Jane/Jean Pollock? Sandra (Crane) Price California > Subject: [McMines] POLLOCK > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:00:05 EDT > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > All of you people seem to know the mines your relatives worked in, but I > don't. I have this Pollock family that I know some of the towns they worked > in because of birth places of their children, but I don't know the mines. > James Pollock and Christian Ormiston married 1796 in Renfrew, their first > several children born there or Barrhead, and then more born up to 1818 in > Campsie parish. Children were Christian 1798 m. Peter Buchanan in Campsie in > 1819; Alexander 1802, died young; William b. 1805 m. Janet Maitland in 1827 > in Campsie; James, 1804 or 1807, m. Elizabeth Findlater 1845 (probably second > marriage for both); Elizabeth, 1808 m. James Chalmers in Campsie 1826; > Alexander, 1809 m. Jean Findlater in 1832 and came to USA in 1852; Samuel > Pollock, 1813 m. Agnes McLuckie in 1840; Margaret Pollock 1815-1818; and John > Pollock, 1817 unsure of wife. > > I think all the sons were colliers and worked in Lanarkshire. Alexander had > five sons and a daughter that came with him to USA and their birthplaces were > Campsie, Passover, Gartsherrie, and Gartgill. > > Does anybody have lists of employees of any mines in these areas? Are any > POLLOCKS mentioned? (Would also be interested in BUCHANAN, CHALMERS, > FINDLATER, MCLUCKIE, OR MAITLAND.) thank you for any ideas or assistance. > Margie Pollock Bridges in California