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Relatives: Wife of Alan Pollok of Broom. Mother of Allan. Jean Coats and Arthur Pollok. Stone Condition: Damaged Material: Sandstone Height: 3.08 Breadth: 4.08 Depth: 0.7 Inscription Condition: Eroded Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. 4 ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ALLAN POLLOK
AND
JEAN COATS POLLOK
WHO BOTH DIED IN INFANCY
AND OF
ARTHUR POLLOK
WHO DIED 15TH JANUARY 1863
AGED 16 YEARS
ALSO
MARGARET POLLOK
LOVING MOTHER AND WIFE OF
ALLAN POLLOK, OF BROOM
WHO DIED 3RD MAY 1866
AND ALSO
ALLAN POLLOK OF BROOM
WHO DIED 22 [ MARCH] 1881
AGED 65 YEARS

Family History

Allan Pollok of Broom, the son of Allan Pollok and Jean Coats, married Margaret Pollok, the daughter of Arthur Pollok and Barbara Thomson, on August 20th 1839.

The inscription on this memorial is badly eroded but, from the recordings published in 1992 for the Scottish Genealogy Society, the following information has been confirmed.

Allan Pollok of Broom died on 22nd March 1881 aged sixty-five: Margaret Pollok his wife died on 3rd May 1866, aged forty-five years. Their son, Arthur, died on January 15th 1863 aged sixteen years. Two other children, Allan and Jean Coats Pollok died in infancy.

The census recorded on the evening of 30th /31st March 1851 gives an interesting insight to Allan Pollok’s lifestyle. A housekeeper, six servants and a butler were employed at Broom House. Allan, aged thirty five, the head of the household, was a land proprietor owning 3,500 acres on which he employed seventy five labourers. His wife Margaret had given birth to a son, John, three months previously. Two other children were listed: Barbara aged ten years and Arthur aged four years. Allan’s father in law, Arthur Pollok aged seventy, and John Pollok, his uncle aged seventy-three, were also included in the household.

Allan’s ambitious plans for developing properties in Ireland which the family had acquired were to lead to great financial losses (cf. monument Z02).