Maurice Pollack
Maurice Pollack, of A. Sommerville and Co
c.1821 Born in Germany.
1851 Worked for a Belgian firm[1] (presumably making steel pens).
1851 Maurice Pollack was sent to Birmingham to manage the newly established business of Alfred Sommerville[2] at houses in Legge Lane, Graham Street.
1851 Maurice Pollack, clerk, and Alfred Sommerville, merchant, were both recorded as visitors at 114 Dale End, Birmingham[3]
1861 Morris Pollack 30, merchant's clerk and gilder, lived in Birmingham with Matilda Pollack 38, Maria Pollack 5, Elizabeth Pollack 4 months, and his brother Oscar J Pollack 22, merchant, and sister Bertha Pollack 24[4]
1867 Patent application by Maurice Pollack, of the firm of A. Sommerville and Company, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Manufacturers, in respect of the invention of " improvements in packing needles, and in papering needles, or making up needles for sale"[5]
1871 Maurice Pollack 40, steel pen merchant, lived in Solihull with Matilda A W Pollack 37, Elizabeth A Pollack 10[6]
1881 Maurice Pollack 50, steel pen manufacturer, lived in Yardley with Matilda Pollack 50, Lily E.V. Pollack 20, and a visitor Rosa Wiley 19[7]
1891 Maurice Pollack 60, living on own means in Yardley, with Matilda Ann Pollack 66, Marie Helene Stephanie Pollack 35[8]
1917 Died in Birmingham[9]