Comments on: The Maxwells of Pollok https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/ South Glasgow Heritage and Environment Trust Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:48:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: S. Pollock https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7942 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:48:29 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7942 Nobody seems to have much detail on the link between the Maxwell and Pollok families. This history states that the Maxwells received land from Alexander I and built the first castle, and seems to treat the name “Pollok” as a description of where the first castle was built (near a pool). An admittedly questionable article on the Pollocks on scotclans . com states that the first historically known Pollok (Peter) “was given a grant of Upper Pollock in Renfrewshire… sometime between 1150 and 1153, during the reign of David I, by Walter fitz Alan (d. 1177), the 1st High Steward of Scotland, as a thanks for his father’s service to Scotland, particularly at the Battle of the Standard in 1138.”
Any details?

]]> By: Karl https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7909 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:53:01 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7909 I can trace my Grand Father all the way back to Maccus some 30 generations, I would love to connect with others to share information

]]> By: Anne S Maxwell https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7855 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:32:13 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7855 In reply to Carol Bennie.

I think we are related. Are you on ancestry and, if so, would you be willing to connect with me?

]]> By: malcolm dobson https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7441 Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:29:33 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7441 fascinating history. Could you say when/how Dame Anne added Macdonald to the family surname? Was it through marriage?

]]> By: Bill Deans https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7097 Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:32:31 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7097 In reply to Stella Spencer.

Hi Stella

In the 1921 Census of the Maxwell household, a James D. Robertson aged 18 years from Kilmonivaig, Inverness-shire is identified as their Chauffeur.

I hope this is your person.

Bill

]]> By: Stella Spencer https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7060 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:13:16 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7060 Thank you for an interesting read, rather hopeful someone might be able to help me with a quest, I am looking for the name of a young man who worked for the Maxwell family as a driver some time around the 30s possibly a little later. He was said to have died in a car accident when his car went into a loch. If anyone knows who this might be It would bring great joy to our family to find his name.
He was probably born around 1889ish.

]]> By: Alastair Allan https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-6709 Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:06:27 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-6709 A very interesting read
I know the estate well and have always found the long history fascinating
Great to be able to fill in some of the many gaps

]]> By: Fergus maxwell Macdonald https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-6665 Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:19:15 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-6665 In reply to Jim McLaughlin.

We still have flats there. A good read but I must point out some of this information about my family is incorrect

]]> By: Alan MacDonald https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-6295 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:58:48 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-6295 It is indeed a very interesting place and the history also. I remember as a young child visiting the estate with my parents and Grandparents this was back in the 1960’s. I had only been back once since then back in the 1980’s and just most recently a few days ago. I must say it took me a while to get the picture back in my mind of how it was back in my early days when visiting. A Beautiful place indeed.

]]> By: Carol Bennie https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-4674 Thu, 15 Apr 2021 07:52:51 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-4674 Great reading. My 4th Great Grandmother was Grissel Maxwell. Daughter of George Maxwell.

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