{"id":1320,"date":"2008-08-18T21:58:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T20:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/08\/18\/big-heads-and-family-history\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T21:58:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T20:58:53","slug":"big-heads-and-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Big heads and family history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the curses of my life is being born with a big head, I need a size 60 or 7<small><small><span class=\"template-frac\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><sup>3<\/sup><big>\u2044<\/big><sub>8<\/sub><\/span><\/small><\/small> hat and buying glasses is a nightmare requiring an extended temple length.<\/p>\n<p>Today I discovered the real meaning of &#8216;pollard&#8217; according to ancestry.com. Pollard is a &#8220;<em>nickname for a person with a large or unusually shaped<br \/>\nhead, from Middle English poll \u2018head\u2019 (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Middle Low German\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Low_German\">Middle Low German<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><em>polle \u2018(top of the) head\u2019) + the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pejorative suffix\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pejorative_suffix\">pejorative suffix<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><em>-ard.<\/em>&#8221; Which is obviously why the name is also given to pruning willow trees where a distinctive large crown is produced.<\/p>\n<p>So I obviously have all those <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heage\">Heage<\/a> Pollard&#8217;s to blame \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pollard-families-living-in-england-and-wales-in-1891-ancestrycom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The things I learn&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the curses of my life is being born with a big head, I need a size 60 or 73\u20448 hat and buying glasses is a nightmare requiring an extended temple length. Today I discovered the real meaning of &#8216;pollard&#8217; according to ancestry.com. Pollard is a &#8220;nickname for a person with a large or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}