Surname Pollack possibly Romanian

[alison300]

I'm researching men of the Honourable Artillery Company who died in WW1.  One of these was David Sender POLLACK - he was born in London in 1896 to Oscar & Victoria POLLACK (nee Bencovici) who i think came from Romania.  Can't find any records for these people in the UK (using Ancestry).  Any suggestions appreciated.

[PaulineJ]

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/282664/pollack,-david-sender/#&gid=null&pid=1

There's an annotation that he's Jewish..

what occupation appears on the birth certificate?
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWL4-2VG (1911 for an Oscar Pollak)

[alison300]

Thanks.  Yes that's the man I'm interested in - it did cross my mind that he could be Jewish. 

His military records mention his parents being in Romania; no idea where he was born in the UK as I can't find his parents on any UK census. 

[PaulineJ]

The birth registration was in Holborn.
What was his father's occupation?

[alison300]

it says "formerly in mineral water factory" - strange that it says formerly

[garstonite]

A lot of Pollack /Pollock here in Liverpool - I wasn't aware it was a Romanian name ?
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I have just been on www.familysearch.org and put in POLLACK - Liverpool - residence 1851 - 1881 and there are quite a few born Ireland and Scotland - which would suggest to me it is  Gaelic origin ?

an example
JOHN POLLACK age 40 b Ireland, widower Porter, visitor to the household
1851 Census
Dolling Street Toxteth Park West Derby RD

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[garstonite]

Have a trawl through these and see if anything is relevant - 577 results for Pollack United Kingdom - if you see a Green Tree on its own you can open that up and read the tree - rootspoint is also free to read - any others are pay per view

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01n6o/

[garstonite]

You have posted David Sender Pollack but his birth registration says David Bender Pollack.


David Bender Pollack birth registered Jun qtr 1896 Holborn RD vol 1b p 647

Could the war graves commision have made a mistake by puttin David Sender Pollack ?
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I wonder if Victoria died and Oscar married again ?

Oscar Pollak m Jun qtr 1906 Marylebone RD
Volume    1A p 1338
Page    1338

Oscar Pollak probably married one of the following people
Esther De Meza or Mabel Felicia Makower

[garstonite]

there are 4 Oscar Pollak in 1911 census so not as easy as I thought to research him