When Joseph Pollard was born on 23 November 1819, in Corfe Castle, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Pollard, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth Thrasher, was 43. He married Mary Ann Bailey on 21 September 1845, in Rotherhithe, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1855. He died on 21 February 1890, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
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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.
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Possible Related NamesLatter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia Volume 1 Biographies Elias Morris Pollard, Joseph, sixth Bishop of the fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake City, was born at Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire, England, …
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