Margaret Pollock

Family

James Pollock married Margaret Lawry (?) d. AFT. 4 Jun 1774

Children

• + 1. Robert Polk, b. ca 1744, d. 1777 (Age ~ 33 years)
• 2. James Polk
• 3. Jean Polk
• 4. Martha Polk
• 5. John Polk, d. ABT. 4 Jun 1774, Hopewell Twp, Cumberland Co., PA
• + 6. William Polk, b. 1746, Hopewell Twp., Cumberland Co., PA

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Origins

http://www.aventfamily.org/TNG//getperson.php?personID=I0922&tree=a...

Recent (2010) DNA testing strongly indicates that this James Pollock was in some way descended from Robert Bruce Polk and Magdalen Tasker. From Bill Polk, 4/2010:

"We now know, from DNA testing of descendants of Robert Polk/Magdalen Tasker Porter, that William Polk who m. Sabra Bradford is descended from the same Polks as Robert Polk aforementioned. We do not know for sure, based on these DNA tests that Robert himself is the progenitor, but if not him, then an unknown brother, probably, of Robert. My bet would be that Robert and Magdalen are the ancestors, though I am still at a loss to figure out how James Pollock, the proven father of William Polk, is associated with Robert and Magdalen. We don't really know when James Pollock was born, I am estimating c1707. If this be correct or even close, then James Pollock is either a son of a younger son of Robert and Magdalen, or the grandson of an older son of Robert and Magdalen. But I cannot make anyone I know of fit, so perhaps there is an unknown son that no one has found. OR, back to the brother of Robert Polk theory. Anyway, we know the line is accurate back to James Pollock and wife Margaret (and I still do not know her surname, Lawry or Lowry on being an educated guess)."