When Jane Pollard was born in 1670, in Taylors Island, Dorchester, Maryland, United States, her father, John Pollard The Elder, was 25 and her mother, Mary Billingsley, was 17. She married Edward Woollen III in 1696, in Taylors Island, Dorchester, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 13 January 1730, in her hometown, at the age of 60, and was buried in Taylors Island, Dorchester, Maryland, United States.
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English:
perhaps a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English pollard, a derivative of the Middle English verb poll ‘to clip’ or the noun poll ‘the head’. It may have denoted someone with a close‐cropped head or a big head.
from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Pollard, a pet form of Paul (Old French Pol). The surname has been established in both England and Ireland since the 13th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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