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Stone Condition: Damaged Material: Sandstone Height: 2.26 Breadth: 4.25 Depth: 0.54 Inscription Condition: Mostly decipherable Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. 3 ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

JOHN H.POLLOK

WHO DIED 7TH SEPR 1856, AGED 29 YEARS
AGNES POLLOK
WHO DIED 22ND JANR 1863 AGED 23 YEARS
ALSO OF FOUR INFANT CHILDREN
THOMAS DIED 1879; JAMES 1880, MARGARET 1881;
AND JAMES UPSHER 1883
THE FAMILY OF JAMES & EUGENIE POLLOK OF TITWOOD.
EUGENIE UPSHER
DIED AT PAIGNTON 19TH SEPR 1889, AND WAS BURIED AT MARLDON, DEVONSHIRE
ALSO JAMES POLLOK OF TITWOOD,
WHO DIED AT PAIGNTON, 25TH FEBY 1903,AGED 84 YEARS;
AND BURIED AT MARLDON

Family History

The inscriptions on this monument record the deaths of John Henderson Pollok, his sister Agnes, his brother James and James’s wife Eugenie (Upsher) and four of their children. The reader will note that these four infant children all died between 1879 and 1883. John Henderson, Agnes and James were three children of the family of William Pollok and Margaret Henderson (cf. monument Z05).

John Henderson Pollok worked in the office of Duncan Gibb, Shipping Merchants, in Liverpool. In 1849 he travelled to Calcutta in order to investigate business prospects. Returning home he went out again to Calcutta where, with his brother William, he established a merchants’ business. Shortly afterwards, however, both brothers suffered ill health and were forced to return home. William (cf.monument Z04) died shortly afterwards in September 1851 at his sister Janet Jarvie’s house in Lodge Lane, Liverpool. John H. survived another five years during which time he went out to Mobile, USA to found the firm of Pollok, Hoghton & Co., but was forced to return home due to the further deterioration of his health. He died at his father’s house at East Titwood from tuberculosis in 1856. Agnes also died at East Titwood at the age of twenty-three years from diphtheria.

James Pollok of Titwood, the eldest of William and Margaret Pollok’s children, died at the age of eighty-four and was buried, as was his wife, Eugenie, in Marldon, Devon.