Alexander Pollock and Maria Egan 

Arriving on the Ship "Abyssinian" in September 1859, the "Abyssinian" ship's passenger record of Bridget Egan refers to her "daughter" Maria, who was already in Australia, and wife of  Alexander Pollock(i) then of Campbelltown (ii);  Maria Pollock was nominated as depositorg (sponsor) for Bridget Egan and her six children. Bridget and her family may have originally settled in the same district of Campbelltown at the foothills of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. 

No record to clarify the date of arrival or the parentage of Maria Egan, has yet been confirmed.

There is one Maria Eagan who appears in online passenger Ship lists recorded as the the daughter of a William resident Kilbeggan, and mother Anne (deceased).... (see both NSW and Queensland State Records).  

There is also record on BDM of NSW for a Maria Egan who married Alexander Pollock on 27 Apr 1856 in Sydney Anglican Church and later registered the marriage in (Moreton Bay) Brisbane, Queensland, (Moreton Bay) (iii) . It is known that her marriage first occurred in Sydney, also that the birth of her early children were registered in 1857 around Parramatta and in 1859 Picton and Campbelltown and by 1863, they had moved towards Cooma. Records: Sydney Anglican Church (Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1818-2011).

Given the grimm circumstance of famine in Ireland (1845-1852) it is probable the family had lost members before 1859. On arrival ship records show Bridget had lost her parents, Daniel Lynch and Hanna, and her husband Patrick, father to the children who travelled with her. Ireland's immigrants may have had adopted loose family relationships for their survival, adapted to suit British programs for immigration and settlement.

How Maria arrived in Australia before Bridget, is not known, however, it can be assumed she was at least, 15 years of age, and had traveled to Australia prior to 1856; possibly having connections in New South Wales or part of a Governor's initiative to bring more young women to the Colonies.

• • Maria's birthdate, is unknown; ~ assuming she was the eldest child of Bridget, then Bridget may have been born about 1830. 

  • Alternatively, Maria may have been a sister to Patrick, or a child of a relative of Patrick, a child of another marriage, or the daughter of a John Egan, who appears on family records as a witness to births and marriages related to Patrick and Bridget. 

  • Another option is that Maria was an orphan, a relative or an adopted child of the families of Patrick Egan and/or Bridget Lynch. 

Alexander Pollock ~ A person of the name Alexander Pollock aged 18, arrived on 16th. January 1855, aboard the ship "William Miles". He was the son of Samuel and Janet whose origins were in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. "Kayci La Burniy" has confirmed this arrival and her well researched details on the Pollock family, questionsthe parentage, stating: (2022)

"Alexander was born on the 5th January 1835 to humble parents, Thomas and Helen Robinson nee Hunter, the second child of ten children. Thomas originally came from Lanarkshire, Glasgow and Helen from Tillicoultry. In 1851, at the age of 16, Alexander was listed as a carter. 

Alexander left Scotland on his own, on the immigrant ship, "William Miles", for the Colony of Queensland when he was just 19 years of age, arriving in Moreton Bay with no family, in 1855, taking 92 days to sail from England to Moreton Bay. Alexander occupation was listed as a ‘farm servant’ and noted that he could read and write".

Alexander may have been a young man, like many, who followed fortune on the gold trails across three States of Australia and in November 1859, 

One person of the name Alexander Pollock appears in Kiandra in The Australian Alps practicing gold mining and was a successful speculator together with his brother Robert. 

By 1865 Alexander had a family, various properties including a shop and house in swampy creek where he established a butcher shop in what is now Brisbane. His brother Robert who partnered with him in Gympie goldfields was not on this passenger list.

 Robert and Alexander Pollock registered Gympie's first hard rock gold mining lease, on 120m of the Lady Mary Reef, which ran up the Alma Street hill to what is now Lady Mary Terrace

The death of Alexander Pollock occurred on 7th. September 1896 in Gympie, Queensland and his obituary was a tribute to a life lived fully.

Maria's date of death according to cousin KB was 6 August 1920.

Children of Alexander Pollock and Maria Egan:

 1)      Helena Maria Pollock was born in 1857 in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia (B# 9513/1857). Helena died in 1857 in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia (D# 3162/1857).

2)      Thomas Alexander Pollock was born in 1861 in Picton, New South Wales, Australia. (B# 11814/1861). He died on 10 Jul 1906 in Queensland.

3)      Robert John Patrick Pollock was born in 1863 in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia (B# 12264/1863 Penrith). He died in 1942 in Queensland. Married Annie Clarke (1867-1938) and a daughter Mary Josephine Lesly Pollock (1899-1973).

4)     Anna Maria Pollock

5)     Sydney Albert Pollock

6)     Teresa Isobel Pollock married Theodore Poppy Barrymore (1866- ) and a son was Theodore Pollock Scammell Barrymore (1905-1963).

7)     Diamantina Alexandria Pollock born 1874 Brisbane, Queensland, married William James McGain and a son Arthur Henderson McGaw (1895-1969). (Named after her father and probably <wikipedia>:- Diamantina, Lady Bowen (née di Roma; c. 1832/1833–1893), was a noble from the formerly Venetian Ionian Islands[1] who became the wife of Sir George Bowen, the first Governor of Queensland.

8)     Violet Beatrice Pollock

FootNotes

(i) - Name variations: Pollock, Polloch or Collock, Colloch, Colock, uColoch, Kolock, Coolock, Collick, Colex, McColock, McColloch.

(ii) - There is also a Compbell Town in Tasmania (Van Diemens land) and there was a George Pollock, Captain I.L.Pollock, and a Mary Ann Pollock resident in Hobart. An Alexander Pollock was born to Thomas and Mary Ann Gollen in 1835;

(iii) - Maria Egan married Alexander Pottock or Pollock on 27 Apr 1856. 

Name: Maria Egan; Spouse Name: Alexander Pottock; Marriage Date: 27 Apr 1856; Marriage Place: Queensland; Registration Place: Queensland; Registration Year: 1859; Registration Number: B000013; Reg # 1859/B13

Spouse Name: Alexander Pollock, Marriage Date: 1856, Marriage Place: New South Wales, Registration Place: Brisbane, Moreton Bay, New South Wales, Registration Year: 1856; Registration Number: 1176

Notes on persons named Maria Egan

There are records for arrivals of more than one persons under the name of Maria Egan / Eagan.

Maria Egan arrived from "Templemore, Tipperary".

Maria Egan, aged 24 years arrived  aboard the "Simonds" (9 May 1855). Maria was a Roman Catholic literate and a kitchen-maid, resident of Kilbeggan town, County Westmeath, Ireland.  Ship lists recorded her as the the daughter of a William resident Kilbeggan, and mother Anne (deceased).... (see both NSW and Queensland State Records).

A fellow passenger aboard the "Simonds" was Bridget Egan, an illiterate dairymaid aged 25 years from Rathkeale, Limerick which is about 50 miles from Broadford, County Clare, Ireland.  Her father was noted as  Patrick Egan, deceased. Her  mother Margaret resident Rathkeale, a town in west County Limerick, in Ireland. 

• NSW State Records. Is there also a Maria who arrived in 1855, daughter of a Patrick and Margaret? 

• On ancestry.com, Roger J Boulton proposes Maria married William Beger (Berger) in 1862 at Parramatta and is a relative on the Boulton line. The coincidence of dates for the arrival and marriage registered in Moreton Bay thereby is not a match.

• Tipperary immigrants to Victoria include one Maria aged 28 and Patrick Egan aged 30, with two young children Patrick and Ann, arrived in 1851 aboard the "Harry Lorrequer" < http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maddenps/TIPPEMVIC.htm > They may have disembarked in South Australia with others of the same linage.

Note: A Pollock (aka Pottock, Collock) - Westmeath, Ireland ~ The microfiche of all NSW Immigrant depositors lists the name as "Collock". So the name Pollock may be incorrect.

(iv) -  The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld.: 1866-1939) / Death Notice / Saturday 19 September 1896: POLLOCK.- On the 7th September, at his residence, Lady Mary terrace, Gympie, Alexander Pollock, aged 61 years. Probate granted in the will of Alexander Pollock SMH Saturday 13 August 1904. 

• Alexander Pollock and his family of civil work contractor lived in Brisbane at this time and their son Thomas had military careers. If Alex was born about 1835, the son of Samuel Pollock and Jane, he was younger than Maria. He died after 1890 in New South Wales, Australia (D# 923u5/1890 at Newtown. 

• Thomas Alexander Pollock. Thomas was born in 1861 in Picton, New South Wales, Australia (B# 11814/1861) [22]. He died on 10 Jul 1906 in Queensland. Thomas Alexander Pollock and Violet Beatrice married. Lily Pollock was one of their children. Thomas Pollock was a military man. Source: The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld: 1866-1939) Saturday 31 December 1887; Darling Downs Division: A Company, Toowoomba: Acting - Sergeant G. Horton is transferred to G Company, the Moreton Regiment. Wide Bay and Burnett Regimental Division: Gympie Mounted Infantry: The resignation of Lieutenant Thomas Alexander Pollock is accepted.

• Pollock's Shop House is a heritage-listed general store at 617-619 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1865. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Alexander Pollock was running a butcher shop in the building, when in  the 60s operated from a shop in this building for a few years after its construction. He lived on the premises, and cannot have been there for too long when a fire occurred in Harvey's Store, the next-door building, on 23 March 1865. At the inquest into the fire, Pollock testified that he was awoken by a "peculiar noise" and that when he investigated he found the next-door property on fire. It appears that the fire was contained to that building although they were only about 10 feet (3 metres) apart. Apparently business didn't go all that well for Pollock. In a civil court case in November 1866 he was sued for £433 as restitution for a cattle deal that had gone sour. Pollock lost the case and was bankrupted in 1866/67. He lost this building to the mortgagee in 1868. 

• By this time Alexander Pollock and brother Robert, were searching for gold at Gympie and it is demonstrated that he had some success With major finds at the later named, Lady Mary reef. Pollock St in Gympie is the site of his claim for the "Lady Mary" reef that he registered in late 1867.

Notes on persons named Alexander Pollock

(v) - Others of the name A. Pollock include:  

• • • Colonial Secretary records show an arrival of POLLOCK, Alexander. Per "Canada", 1819. who in 1821, Jan 27 - was - On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per "Lady Nelson" (Reel 6007; 4/3503 p.71). What was his future?

    • There ia an arrival of Alexander Pollock in Melbourne, Victoria on 4th. August 1854.

1. One Alexander Pollock was a seaman in 1856 who voyaged from Launceston to Melbourne aboard the Yarra Yarra..

2. Asher Pollock, (b.1777-) Violent Theft, highway; “Asher Pollock, one of 106 convicts transported on the Third Fleet, 1791 -  (Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander and William and Mary), January 1791″ :- Convicted Date:    8 Dec 1790; Place of Conviction: Middlesex, England; Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of life. Voyage Date: 13  Jan 1791; Colony: arrival 31st August, 1791 / Sept. 1891  New South Wales 

3. Another Asher Pollock 1802 "Duke of Portland" Suffolk 1794 - Life aged 27

4. Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791 - Immigration & Travel - View Image / View Image / View Image / View Image / View Image/ View Image

5. Convict, Criminal, Land & Wills / New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834 and New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849.

6. Alexander Pollock was on a list of prisoners transported to Newcastle and arrived aboard the ship "Canada" 1818-1821 record# 71630. Source: CSI.

Arrivals on Harry Lorrequer, March 14, 1851 ~ multiple families of name Egan aboard and elders included a Patrick and William aged 50 (b.1801)

• 1. Margaret 34, (b.1817)

  2. William 37, (b.1814)

  3. Ann 37, (b.1814)

  4. Mary 28, (b.1823)

  5. Patrick 30, (b.1821) and Maria 28 (c.1823)

There were listed additional Egan children on board

i) Ann 8, (b.1843)

ii) Ellen 10 and 15, (b.1841, b.1836)

iii) Honora 6, (b.1845)

iv) Margaret 11, (b.1840)

v) Maria 4 (b.1847)

vi) Mary 12 and 17/18, (b.1839) (b.1834) (b.1833)

vii) John 15, (b.1836)

viii) Martin 14 and 21, (b.1837) (b.1830)

ix) Michael 3 and 18, (b.1847) (b.1833)

x) Patrick 2 and 20, (b.1849) (b.1831)

xi) William 1 and 23 (b.1850) (b.1828)

Clarify this entry: Name: Maria Egan, Queensland - Page Number: 4 - (arrived in 312). Note also: 1866/C204 - Richards George & Egan Maria