Marriage

William Branch /POLLARD/ Parents. Draw Anc. Tree. Draw Desc. Tree.

b. 25 Jun 1833 at Demerara, British Guiana.

d. 9 Dec 1889 at St.Leonard's, Sussex

Buried. at Ore Cemetery

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Nb. He served in training as a Civil Engineer, under the firm of M'Clean & Stileman, and was for six months Assistant Engineer on the Furness Railway. Returning to British Guiana, he was appointed Assistant Colonial Civil Engineer. He was elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers 3 April 1860.

In January 1863, he was appointed Colonial Civil Engineer and Overseer of Public Works for the Colony of British Guiana. On 6 Nov. 1868, he became a full Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He had then constructed various coast defences, groynes, sea-walls etc., and built several goals, hospitals and police stations.

He was Captain commanding the British Guiana Artillery. His chief interest was music and he played the organ.

He retired from the Government Service in British Guiana in 1880, as a result of a sunstroke. He settled at St.Leonard's, Sussex.

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Elizabeth Anne /BLACKLEY/ Parents. Draw Anc. Tree. Draw Desc. Tree.

b. 30 Oct 1841

d. 22 Feb 1872 at Demerara

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Marriage. 16 Sep 1869 at St Mary the Virgin, West Derby, Lancashire, England

Nb. William Branch Pollard - Full Civil Engineer Bachelor of St. Pancras London
Elizabeth Anne Blackley - Full Spinster of West Derby
Groom's Father: Nathaniel Weekes Pollard, Gentleman. Deceased
Bride's Father: Joseph Blackley, Deceased, Merchant
Witness: William Imrie; Lucy Blackley
Married by Licence by: John Stewart
Register: Marriages 1868 - 1883, Page 21, Entry 42
Source: LDS Film 1546071

Children

Amy Elizabeth Rosalie /POLLARD/ Parents. Adopt Parents. Draw Anc. Tree.
- Amy Elizabeth /IMRIE/
- Mary /Clare/

b. 4 Oct 1870 at Demerara, British Guiana.

d. 4 Apr 1944

Buried. at Buried behind the High Altar at Sclerder Abbey, Cornwall England.
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Nb. After the death of her mother 1872, she was brought to England and lived with her mother's sister, Hannah Imrie (M. to William Imrie (half owner White Star Shipping line)) and later adopted by Hannah & William.

On coming of age she became a Catholic and Joined the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares.

As Sister Mary Clare, she was Foundress of Sclerder Abbey, near Polperro, Cornwell, and became its first Mother Abbess. Sister Mary Clare also built the church of St. Mary of the Angels in Liverpool using her inheritance of the Imrie estate.