Richard Polley (1846-1899)
married Eliza May Inch the third child of Leonard Inch of Nashwauksis.
They lived for some years in Marysville across from the old cotton mill and
had four children, William, James, Harry and Adelaide.
James Spencer died while living
there from appendicitis. He and his grandparents, Leonard and Elanor Inch are
buried in Marysville. The family moved back to the farm in North Clones
shortly afterwards.
William Leonard Polley (Will)
was an apprentice in a newspaper setting print. But when Richard died
suddenly, he gave up his job and moved back to the farm to look after the
family who were still quite young. Also in this time a young cousin came to
live with them, Roy Searle. He use to dig potatoes for Alwood Dunn who lived
on the next farm at that time. He stayed for 5 years and was 14 when he left
for a job in Saint John at $4 a week sweeping floors in a grocery store.
William married Phoebe Moore
of North Clones. They had one child Zelda Mae who married Murray Mallory of
North Clones. They had no children but raised three; Walter Rice, who married
and had two sons. Shirley married John Jarvis and had two sons. Wayne died in
a car accident in his early twenties. Zelda lived most of her married life in
Saint John.
Harry Gilbert Polley
(1886-1950) married Elsie Reader (1901-1943) who came from England at
the age of 2 in 1904, lived in Manitoba to age of 13 and then came to NB to
North Clones and married Harry Polley in 1920, just 9 days before his mother
Eliza's death. They lived on the farm in North Clones that he had bought from
Alwood Dunn shortly after William and Phoebe Moore were married. Alwood Dunn
had then moved to Headline. Harry and Elsie had 5 children;
(1) Charles Richard Polley married Marion Cooper,
and they have 2 daughters,
(2) James Spencer Polley (1923-1932) died of appendicitis and is
buried in the North Clones United Church Cemetery where his grandparents
Charles and Lydia Reader and his parents Harry and Elsie are also buried.
(3) Ethel Lydia Polley (1926) married Arthur E Murphy
(1922-1998) and have 3 children;
(4) William Edward Polley married Jean Chambers and had one
daughter. Jean died in 1992.
(5) Walter Gerald Polley married Greta Corbett of Dunnns Corner
and have 2 sons.
Mary Adelaide Polley married
Josiah Gladstone Beaconsfield Murphy (1900-1970) in 1910 and they had 5
children;
(1) Harold married Jean Maxwell of Jerusalem
and had one son.
(2) Earl married Helen Maxwell, (Jean's sister) and had two
children. .
(3) Ruth married John Dunn of Headline and had one son, and
lived at Coote Hill.
(4) Ralph married Eva Smith of Bathurst and have 6 children .
(5) Margaret married Rogers Armstrong of Summer Hill and have 2
daughters.
William Polley lived on the original farm in North Clones
most of his life and is buried in North Clones.
Harry and his mother Eliza moved across to an old farm he
bought shortly after William married. Later he bought another farm from Alwood
Dunn on the same road, and there they lived the rest of their lives. Harry
eventually owned 6 lots that had once been farms. The McCutchon lot Kelly lot,
original Polley farm, Hamilton lot, Dunn lot and the farm he spent most of his
life on.
There was an old covered bridge down from the original
Polley farm called the Polley Bridge.
Shortly after William died, Zelda sold the homestead to
Harry. Zelda and her husband Murry Mallory and her mother Phoebe moved to
Saint John where they spent the rest of their lives.
