Descendants of Fulbert


Generation No. 1

 1.  FULBERT1.

 Notes for FULBERT:
The best account of Fulbert that I have seen is contained in a book
entitled Pogue/Pollock/Polk Genealogy As Mirrored in History, published in
1990 by Lloyd Welch Pogue. My information is that it is still available
from the author at 52094 Kenwood Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6604,
telephone (301) 654-7233 for $35

Fulbert bore Petrus who was granted Upper Pollock in Renfrewshire,
Scotland.

        Child of FULBERT is:
 2.     i.      PETRUS2 DE POLLOCK.


Generation No. 2

 2.  PETRUS2 DE POLLOCK (FULBERT1).

 Notes for PETRUS DE POLLOCK:
The Pollocks descend from a Scottish castle of which only a few stones
remain.  One of the stones are usually on display in the Polk tent at the
annual Scottish Highland Games at Grandfather Mountain near Blowing Rock,
North Carolina.

The progenitor of the Scottish Pollock clan is said to be Fulbert, thought
to have invaded England with William the Conqueror in 1066.

        Child of PETRUS DE POLLOCK is:
 3.     i.      ROBERTUS3 DE POLLOCK.


Generation No. 3

 3.  ROBERTUS3 DE POLLOCK (PETRUS2, FULBERT1).  He married AGNES MAXWELL.

        Child of ROBERTUS DE POLLOCK and AGNES MAXWELL is:
 4.     i.      JOHN4 DE POLLOCK.


Generation No. 4

 4.  JOHN4 DE POLLOCK (ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2, FULBERT1).

        Child of JOHN DE POLLOCK is:
 5.     i.      BRUCIE5 DE POLLOCK.


Generation No. 5

 5.  BRUCIE5 DE POLLOCK (JOHN4, ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2, FULBERT1).

        Child of BRUCIE DE POLLOCK is:
 6.     i.      JOHN6 DE POLLOCK.


Generation No. 6

 6.  JOHN6 DE POLLOCK (BRUCIE5, JOHN4, ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2, FULBERT1).

 Notes for JOHN DE POLLOCK:
A gentleman of landed property near Glasgow, which he left to venture in
Northern Ireland.  

        Child of JOHN DE POLLOCK is:
 7.     i.      ROBERT7 DE POLLOCK.


Generation No. 7

 7.  ROBERT7 DE POLLOCK (JOHN6, BRUCIE5, JOHN4, ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2,
FULBERT1).  He married ANNABELLE STEWART.

        Child of ROBERT DE POLLOCK and ANNABELLE STEWART is:
 8.     i.      ROBERT BRUCE8 POLK, b. 1620, Londonderry, Northern Ireland.


Generation No. 8

 8.  ROBERT BRUCE8 POLK (ROBERT7 DE POLLOCK, JOHN6, BRUCIE5, JOHN4,
ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2, FULBERT1) was born 1620 in Londonderry, Northern
Ireland.  He married (1) GUILLET.  He married (2) MAGDELENE TASKER,
daughter of ROGER TASKER.

 Notes for ROBERT BRUCE POLK:
Came to America about 1659.  Robert married first and had four children. 
We descend from his first wife.  His second wife Magdalen Tasker Porter was
the daughter of Colonel Tasker, who was Robert Pollock's commander in
Oliver Cromwell's Army and also the widow of his friend and fellow officer,
Colonel Porter.  When his father passed away in 1659, Robert "took ship"
and sailed away from Ireland to the colonies.  He landed in Maryland and
was accompanied by his wife and children.  It was about this time that the
name changed from Pollock to Polk.    

        Children of ROBERT POLK and GUILLET are:
 9.     i.      JOHN M.9 POLK, b. 1657-1659, Ireland; d. 1707, Somerset County,
Maryland.
        ii.     ROBERT POLK, m. MARGARET TASKER.
 

        iii.    DAVID POLK.
 

        iv.     WILLIAM POLK, b. 1664; d. 1739.
 
Notes for WILLIAM POLK:
This is the President James Knox Polk line.

        v.      JAMES POLK.
 

        vi.     EPHRAIM POLK.
 

        vii.    JOSEPH POLK.
 

        viii.   MARGARET POLK.
 

        ix.     ANN POLK.
 



Generation No. 9

 9.  JOHN M.9 POLK (ROBERT BRUCE8, ROBERT7 DE POLLOCK, JOHN6, BRUCIE5,
JOHN4, ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2, FULBERT1) was born 1657-1659 in Ireland, and
died 1707 in Somerset County, Maryland.  He married JOANNA KNOX.
 Notes for JOANNA KNOX:
KNOX'S were
a sept of the Clan McFarlane in Scotland. There 
is a Clan McFarlane Society of America.
The Clan motto was LOCH SLOY which was 
also a battle cry. 

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, by James G. Leyburn, 1962 page 118, "In
1626 Josiah Welch, a grandson of John Knox, likewise resigned his
professorship at Glasgow, settled at Templepatrick in Antrim, and was
ordained in the Presbyterian Church.

        Children of JOHN POLK and JOANNA KNOX are:
 10.    i.      WILLIAM10 POLK, b. 11 July 1695, Somerset County, Maryland; d. 25
November 1726.
        ii.     NANCY POLK.
 



Generation No. 10

 10.  WILLIAM10 POLK (JOHN M.9, ROBERT BRUCE8, ROBERT7 DE POLLOCK, JOHN6,
BRUCIE5, JOHN4, ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2, FULBERT1) was born 11 July 1695 in
Somerset County, Maryland, and died 25 November 1726.  He married (1)
PRISCILLA ROBERTS, daughter of FRANCIS ROBERTS and ANN POLK.  He married
(2) MARGARET TAYLOR.

 Notes for WILLIAM POLK:
Captain William Polk 

Captain William Polk was born in 1746 and died testate on 14 January 1835. 
 It is thought that he is buried near Bradford's Bay, Accomac County,
Virginia.  He owned a salt works.  Benedict Arnold burned his fine brick
house. William was a Captain of the militia of Accomac County for eight
years during the Revolution and he is registered with the Daughters of the
American Revolution.  William and Sabra were the parents of Sarah,
Margaret, Nathaniel, *Bridget, James, Jane, Robert, Martha, Amelia,
William, John, and Priscilla.  William married second to Ann -.  William
was a son of John Polk, who was born about1729.  John married Turgurtha,
daughter of Thomas Hugg and Joanna Knox.  The Huggs were Swedish but no
doubt had a different and more difficult surname when they entered this
country.

John was a son of William Polk, born 11 July 1695, in Somerset County,
Maryland and died on the 25th of November 1726.  His will was entered for
probate in Maryland on January 21, 1727.  He had married second, to
Priscilla Roberts, his first cousin, daughter of Francis Roberts who was
born 24 April, 1629, Hinsworth Parish, Hertfordshire, England and died
1703, at Dames Quarter, Maryland, and Ann Polk.  William was a son of John
M. Polk, who was born in Ireland between 1657 and 1759 and died in 1707 in
Maryland, having dated his will 20 November 1702.  John M. Polk was a son
of Captain Robert Bruce Polk, who arrived in Maryland about 1659, from
Londonderry, Ireland.  He was born about 1620 in Ireland.  His will, which
was written on May 6, 1699, was entered for probate on June 5, 1704, in
Somerset County, Maryland.  He was married first, in Ireland, to Miss -
Guillet, who is said to be mother of five children, and second in about1657
to Magdelene Tasker, widow of Col. John Porter, and daughter of Col. Roger
Tasker, Chancellor of Ireland.  Our line is from the first wife.  The
children of his first wife were* John M. Polk, of our line, Robert, David,
William (1664-1739, President James Knox Polk line), James, Ephraim,* Ann
of our line who was possibly the daughter of Magdelene, Martha, and Joseph.
 The family home of "Whitehall", is located in Somerset County, Maryland. 
Robert Bruce Polk is said to have been a son Sir Robert de Pollock and
Annabelle Stewart. 

The above Priscilla Roberts was a granddaughter of the Rev. Robert Roberts,
born in London in 1591, and Jane Greek.  His parents were Francis Roberts
and Mary Barne and Jane's parents were William Greeke and Margaret Bradley.


Mary Barne was a daughter of John Barne and Jean Langton.  John Barne was a
son of Sir George Barne, Lord Mayor of London, and Alice Brooke.  (See "The
Cleggs of Old Chatham", for further lines)


        Children of WILLIAM POLK and PRISCILLA ROBERTS are:
 11.    i.      JOHN11 POLK, b. 1720.
 12.    ii.     THOMAS POLK, b. Bef. 1726; d. 1793, Presbyterian Churchyard,
Charlotte, NC.
        iii.    CHARLES POLK, m. POLLY CLARK.
 

        iv.     DEBORAH POLK, m. SAMUEL MCCLEARY.
 

        v.      SUSAN POLK, m. (1) BENJAMIN ALEXANDER; m. (2) DAVID RESSE.
 

        vi.     MARGARET POLK, m. ROBERT MCKEE.
 

        vii.    WILLIAM POLK, m. SPRATT.
 

 13.    viii.   EZEKIEL POLK.


Generation No. 11

 11.  JOHN11 POLK (WILLIAM10, JOHN M.9, ROBERT BRUCE8, ROBERT7 DE POLLOCK,
JOHN6, BRUCIE5, JOHN4, ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2, FULBERT1) was born 1720.  He
married (1) ELLENER SHELBY.  He married (2) TURGURTHA HUGG, daughter of
THOMAS HUGG.

        Child of JOHN POLK and ELLENER SHELBY is:
 14.    i.      WILLAM12 POLK, b. 1746; d. 14 January 1835, Accomac County,
Virginia.

 12.  THOMAS11 POLK (WILLIAM10, JOHN M.9, ROBERT BRUCE8, ROBERT7 DE
POLLOCK, JOHN6, BRUCIE5, JOHN4, ROBERTUS3, PETRUS2, FULBERT1) was born Bef.
1726, and died 1793 in Presbyterian Churchyard, Charlotte, NC.  He married
SUSANNA SPRATT, daughter of THOMAS SPRATT.

 Notes for THOMAS POLK:
Thomas Polk is the young man who arrived in what is now MECKLENBURG COUNTY,
NC with what little he had carried in a knap-sack thrown over his tired
shoulders, on foot, and whose "journey's end" was the door of THOMAS
SPRATT'S cabin, somewhere below Charlotte, though there was no town of
Charlotte in Mecklenburg County in those early days.  

Thomas Polk became a surveyor and was largely self-educated from necessity,
but as early as 1770 was a representative in the Assembly from Mecklenburg
County; he aided in running the western extension of the boundary line
between North and South Carolina, about 1771; at the breaking out of the
American Revolution he became Colonel of the Mecklenburg County Militia,
which then included all of the present Cabarrus County, afterwards set
apart and named for Stephen Cabarrus.  As Colonel of the militia, in 1775,
it was the Thomas Polk, the tired, lonely traveler of much earlier years,
who issued the call for the election of delegates in the various
communities then embraced in Mecklenburg County, to the famous convention
of May 19 and 20, 1775, which brought forth the first real, genuine and
uncompromising DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ever written on American soil.

In the year of the Declaration he was appointed Colonel of the "Minute Men"
with Adam Alexander as Lieutenant Colonel.  Polk was appointed Colonel of
the fourth regiment of the Continental troops following the Provincial
Congress, which met at Halifax April 4, 1776.  Though far advanced in years
Thomas Polk served through the revolution, and at his retirement was made a
Brigadier General.  His valuable service to his country was recognized by
General Nathaniel Greene and other leaders with whom he was intimately
associated, and in the end he was rewarded with numerous valuable grants of
lands set apart in what is now Tennessee for himself and his heirs.

General Thomas Polk and his wife Susanna Spratt were the parents of four
sons and several daughters. 
In the year 1790 the two wealthiest and most influential men in Mecklenburg
County, according to the records were Col. Thomas Polk and John Spring, who
lived in the general vicinity of Pineville.  John Springs, a son in law of
Adam Alexander, was the owner of 50 slaves, while Colonel Thomas Polk had
47.  William Polk had 21.

Thomas died in 1793 and is buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard in the
City of Charlotte.

 7.     i.      ESTHER WATTS7 CLEGG, d. 19 August 1888, Mt. Hope Cemetary, Waverly,
Missouri.
        ii.     GEORGE WILLIAM CLEGG, b. 15 April 1789.
 

        iii.    JOHN POLK CLEGG, b. 14 October 1792.
 

        iv.     ISAAC CLEGG, b. 09 November 1794.
 

 8.     v.      DAVID CLEGG, b. 26 September 1796.
        vi.     ELIZABETH BETSY CLEGG, b. 19 October 1798.
 

        vii.    NATHANIEL CLEGG, b. 05 April 1801.
 

        viii.   THOMAS WATTS CLEGG, b. 19 May 1803.
 

        ix.     MARGARET PEGGY CLEGG, b. 02 May 1805.
 

        x.      NANCY CLEGG, b. 22 September 1807.
 

        xi.     LUTHER CLEGG, b. 15 November 1809.
 

        xii.    MARY B. CLEGG, b. 08 August 1814.
 

        xiii.   BAXTER CLEGG.
 



Generation No. 7

 7.  ESTHER WATTS7 CLEGG (BRIDGET6 POLK, SARAH5 BRADFORD, WILLIAM4,
WILLIAM3, ALICE2 SMITH, RICHARD1) died 19 August 1888 in Mt. Hope Cemetary,
Waverly, Missouri.  She married WILLIAM AVENT, son of JOHN AVENT.

        Child of ESTHER CLEGG and WILLIAM AVENT is:
        i.      HARRIET PRIMROSE8 AVENT, b. 05 December 1821, Chatham County, North
Carolina; d. 18 August 1888, Waverly, Missouri; m. CALVIN DUNCAN BRAY, 03
March 1842, Chatham County, North Carolina.


 8.  DAVID7 CLEGG (BRIDGET6 POLK, SARAH5 BRADFORD, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3,
ALICE2 SMITH, RICHARD1) was born 26 September 1796.  He married ELIZA
BYNUM.

        Child of DAVID CLEGG and ELIZA BYNUM is:
        i.      MARTHA HELLEN8 CLEGG.