Person:Lucy Binns (2)

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends.

DEATH: From cardiac failure after many years of chronic nephritis.

EDUCATION: 1839-1845 - Ackworth School, Ackworth, Yorkshire, England.

OCCUPATION: 1848 - In April she started as an apprentice teacher at Croydon School.

RESIDENCES: 1830 - At birth - Sunderland, Co. Durham, England. 1839 - 1845 Ackworth School, Ackworth, Yorkshire, England otherwise continuing residence in Sunderland. 1853 - Before marriage - Frederick Street, Bishopwearmouth, Co. Durham, England. 1854 - After marriage - she was living in Ackworth. 1861 - Low Ackworth, leading to Cambridge Road, Ackworth, Yorkshire, England. 1871 Holmesdale Road, Reigate, Surry, England. 1881 - 9 Holmefield, Sale, Cheshire, England. 1882 - Eccles, Lancashire, England. 1891 - Drayton Lodge, Clarendon Road, Eccles, Lancashire, England. 1900 - Bentinck Villa, High Ackworth, Yorkshire, England.

DOMESTIC_SERVANTS: (1881 census) Kate Crate, general domestic servant, 19, of Winston, Hampshire, England.

OBITUARY: "Frederick Andrews spoke beautifully about how good it was for her to have died so peacefully in the midst of a life still active, with a keen, alert mind - how that very day she was to have read at a B.W.T.A. meeting, etc." Mary recorded how she had learned "dearly to love & much to admire" her mother-in-law, who was greatly missed.

CONFLICT: Slight variation in death date. Beck quotes 4th, others have 3rd April 1908.

MISCELLANEOUS_NOTES: See letter from Benjamin S. Beck - greatgrandson (11 Jun1988). Also print-out (16 Jan 1989). In September 1903 she was delighted at the news of Frank's engagement. The Christmas and New Year of 1903/4 she spent in Scarborough. By May of 1904 she was becoming rather melancholy at the prospect of no longer having anyone to look after, apparently rather enjoying darning Frank's socks, which Mary would be doing after his marriage.9

INITIAL_SOURCE: Leicester.

In April 1848 she started as an apprentice teacher at Croydon School, in the days of John Sharp, where she met [I3] William Pollard <http://web.ukonline.co.uk/benjaminbeck/pollard.html>, who was one of the junior masters. After On the 12th January 1854 - after William had become a master at Ackworth - they married, at the Nile Street meeting house in Sunderland. At that date she was living in Frederick Street, Bishopwearmouth. In old age, she recorded, of the birth of their first child Mary Sophia in 1854, "Isn't it lovely to lie and gaze upon one's very own firstborn?" The couple had ten children: Mary Sophia (1854), Lucy (1856), Ellen (1857), Bedford (1858), Albert (1860), William Henry (1862), Eliza (1866), Constance (1867), Arthur Binns (1870), and [I2] Francis Edward <http://web.ukonline.co.uk/benjaminbeck/pollard.html> (1872); the first six were born in Ackworth, the others in Reigate.3 In 1861 she was living at Low Ackworth, leading to Cambridge Road, Ackworth. In June 1864 she advertised in The British Friend, looking for ‘a competent young woman as a nursemaid, who will board with the family.’ In 1871 she was living in Holmesdale Road, Reigate, with five children and one servant. In June that year her daughter Constance died at Reigate, aged 3½.4 Her eldest son, Bedford, recorded an unusual incident of his mother's early married life: "Whether it was before my time or during my infancy, a strange experience of my mother's is worth recording. She was out walking with my father and suddenly exclaimed, "O, I'm sure something has happened." They hurried home and found one of my sisters bleeding badly from a cut. Many years later, when the same daughter, then married, was 'expecting', my mother, one night, suffered the experiences of childbirth simultaneously with the arrival of a grandchild."5 In October 1878 ‘Mrs. Wm. Pollard, Holmefield, Sale, Manchester’, was among the list of people willing to receive contributions for the Ashworth Memorial Chapel for the Destitute, which would carry on Adult & Juvenile Sunday Schools, Mothers’ Meetings, Band of Hope, and other work. In 1881 she was living at 9 Holmefield, Sale, Cheshire. By 1882, however, she had moved to Eccles. In 1891 she was resident at Drayton Lodge, Clarendon Road, Eccles, with one son still at home, and a single general domestic servant.6 About 1900, she recorded her excitement at the latest news of the Boer War, commenting "I feel a decided Pro Boer!" She had attended the previous Yearly Meeting.7 By July of 1900 she had moved to Bentinck Villa, High Ackworth, Ackworth. She had a maid, at Ackworth; the 1901 census records her there, living on means, with one general servant. She was still giving a great deal of domestic attention to her unmarried son Frank, who was by now in his late twenties.8 In September 1903 she was delighted at the news of Frank's engagement. The Christmas and New Year of 1903/4 she spent in Scarborough. By May of 1904 she was becoming rather melancholy at the prospect of no longer having anyone to look after, apparently rather enjoying darning Frank's socks, which Mary would be doing after his marriage.9 In the middle of 1905 she was suffering from eye trouble, which was a considerable affliction, as she read a lot.10 In June 1906 she attended Ackworth General Meeting, wheeled there in her bath chair. The first week in September that year found her staying at Colwyn Bay, where on the 3rd it is recorded that she sat in the pier pavilion for two hours, listening to the band.10A In February 1907 she gave her baby grandson Robert S.W. Pollard £5 for his Post Office savings account. She made her will on the 21st January 1908.11 On Saturday the 4th April 1908, she died quietly in her sleep, from cardiac failure after many years of chronic nephritis. She died at her home, Bentinck Villa, High Ackworth, Hemsworth E., Hemsworth, Yorks. In death she looked beautiful and peaceful, and indeed Mary Pollard felt if anything she looked more so three days later, before the funeral. She was buried at 2.30pm on Tuesday the 7th April, in the Friends' burial ground at Ackworth - next to her son Albert. "Fred. Andrews spoke beautifully about how good it was for her to have died so peacefully in the midst of a life still active, with a keen, alert mind - how that very day she was to have read at a B.W.T.A. meeting, etc." Mary recorded how she had learned "dearly to love & much to admire" her mother-in-law, who was greatly missed.12 She left £774.5s.8d.13 Lucy Binns was the youngest child of [K2] <http://web.ukonline.co.uk/benjaminbeck/binns.html> George and [L1] Margaret Binns <http://web.ukonline.co.uk/benjaminbeck/watson1.html>.14

1 entry in digests of Society of Friends; PRO RG 6/1149; Reminiscences of Frederick Binns (photocopy possessed by Margaret Viney) suggests she may have been born in a house at the corner of Durham Street and Coronation Street, Bishopwearmouth. 2 Ackworth School Centenary Committee: List of the Boys and Girls admitted into Ackworth School 1779-1879, Ackworth 1879; census returns 3 entry in digests of Society of Friends; Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends' House Library, typescript); William Pollard: 'Some Descendants of James and Mary Pollard', Ms book in my possession ; Letters of Mary Pollard; Ms notes on family of William & Lucy Pollard, by a son (probably Wilfrid) of Sophie & Joseph Sparkes; photocopy in my possession; genealogical notes by Sidney Beck; Essex Record Office D/Q 49/I2/a1; The Friend 1862-12-01 p. 309 4 census returns; ad in The British Friend, p. 154; The Friend NS XI.July.184 5 Bedford Pollard: Quaker Reminiscences. Ups and downs from Infancy to Longevity (London: Headley, 1937): 5 6 census returns; David Blamires: 'William Pollard 1828-1893', Friends' Quarterly, October 1984; The British Friend XXXVI.Oct:270 & ads p. 3 7 Letters from Lucy Pollard to Mary Spence Watson (Pollard) 8 Letters from Lucy Pollard to Mary Spence Watson (Pollard); Kelly's Directory; PRO RG 13/4306 9 Letters from Frank Pollard 10 Letters of Mary Pollard 10A Diaries of Mary S.W. Pollard (Ms) 11 will; Diaries of Mary S.W. Pollard 12 death certificate; index to wills and administrations, Principal Registry of the Family Division; Diaries of Mary S.W. Pollard; B.W.T.A. stands for British Women's Temperance Association. 13 index to wills and administrations 14 Ackworth School Book 1905; Dictionary of Quaker Biography

1. ↑ Public Records Office. 1881 British Census Transcript. (Electronic transcript to CD by LDS)
   FHL Film 1341840 PRO Ref RG11 Oiece 3506 Folio 107 Page 9.
2. ↑ ? Arthur Chamney Leicester. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Leicester Document). (Unpublished Family Tree).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Benjamin S. Beck. Beck Family History Web (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/benjaminbeck/beck.html). (An electronic record of one family historian's researches, mainly from Quaker sources. Published 2001)
   Binns K1.
5. ↑ Digests of the Society of Friends. (Records of Meetings)
   PRO RG 6/1149.
6. ↑ Ackworth School Centenary Committee List of the Boys and Girls admitted into Ackworth School 1779-1879. (Ackworth 1879.).
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Digests of the Society of Friends. (Records of Meetings).
8.   Bemjamin Beck. Descendants of William & Lucy Pollard. (Unpublished listing from Family Tree (1989)).
9.   Kenneth Wilson. Lothersdale Chart. (unpublished chart of Binns families derived from Lothersdale records).