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Monument Inscription
ERECTED BY
WILLIAM POLLOK OF TITWOOD
IN MEMORY OF
JANET POLLOK, WIFE OF JAMES JARVIE
WHO DIED 29TH FEBY 1856, AGED 31 YEARS
BURIED AT LIVERPOOL
MARGARET HENDERSON POLLOK
WHO DIED 6TH AUGUST 1866 aged 69 YEARS
THE ABOVE WILLIAM POLLOK.
died 16TH MARCH 1869 aged 79 YEARS.
MARGARET POLLOK
died 21ST JANY 1879 aged 37 YEARS
NON AMITTUNTUR
SED PREMITTUNTUR
Family History
The farm of East Titwood, situated a mile to the south-east of Mearns Kirk, was the home of the family of William Pollok. William, the son of local landowner James Pollok and his wife Janet Mann, was born in Mearns in 1790 and married Margaret Henderson from Houston in 1818.
Coming from a relatively wealthy and privileged background, William was able to buy his farm and build a substantial house, where his family of nine children were to be raised. The children were named James, Eliza, John, Janet, Allan, William, Margaret, Thomas and Agnes.
The family was not only involved in agriculture, but had business interests, as did several generations of Mearns families which staffed the various subsidiary firms which developed from Pollok, Gilmour & Co., the company set up by William’s cousins, John and Arthur Pollok, with Allan Gilmour in 1806. Between them, these families built up an empire in timber trading with the eastern seaboard of Canada and North America. Several of William’s children were involved in this activity.
William’s daughter Janet who married James Jarvie in Mearns in 1846, died at the tragically young age of thirty-one in Liverpool, where in 1840 her husband, James Jarvie, had set up in business with Robert Hutchison (cf. monument L02). The firm of Hutchison and Jarvie were rope manufacturers and owned a sail making and rope storing warehouse. James Jarvie’s father had founded a similar business in Glasgow in 1800.
James Pollok (cf. monument Z06), William’s eldest son, inherited the policies at East Titwood on the death of his father in 1869. William’s wife Margaret died three years earlier at the age of sixty-nine. Their daughter Margaret never married and lived with her brother James at East Titwood. She died at the age of thirty-seven in 1879 and was buried alongside her parents.