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Maurice Pollack

From Graces Guide

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]


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Sources of Information

  1. Memories of Maurice Pollack cited in the "Life of Josiah Mason" [1]
  2. Memories of Maurice Pollack cited in the "Life of Josiah Mason" [2]
  3. 1851 census
  4. 1861 census
  5. London Gazette 5 March 1867
  6. 1871 census
  7. 1881 census
  8. 1891 census
  9. National probate calendar