Bristol Potters - C

Research by Reg Jackson

CRATES Sarah

Born c1806 in St Philip’s parish (71C).

1871	Potter, widow, 3 Millpond Street, Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (65) (71C).

CREASE Edward Henry

Born c1886 in Bristol, the brother of William Albert Crease (01C).

1901	Pottery labourer, 69 Mill Lane, Bedminster (15), living with his parents and siblings (01C).
1911	General labourer, stoneware pottery, 140 Whitehouse Lane, Bedminster (26), living with his wife Rosina (22) and children Rosina (2) and Alice (5 mths), all born in Bristol (11C).

CREASE Eliza

Born c1867 in Bedminster (91C).

1891	Apprentice to stoneware potter, 78 Mill Street, Bedminster (24) (91C).

CREASE William Albert

Born c1887 in Bristol, the brother of Edward Henry Crease (JBPR, 01C).

1887	20 Feb. Baptised, the son of Edward and Alice Crease (JBPR).
1901	Pottery labourer, 69 Mill Lane, Bedminster (13), living with his parents and siblings (01C).
1911	Potter’s labourer, 64 Cotswold Road, Windmill Hill, Bedminster (24), living with his wife Elizabeth Clara Crease (20), born in Bristol (11C).

CRIBB Abraham

The son of Adam Cribb of Bristol, shipwright, deceased (A).

1736	6 Aug. He was apprenticed to Paul and Elizabeth Townsend with £10, the gift of Edward Colston, deceased (A, Ao, Ar).

CRINKS Samuel

The son of John and Ann Crinks of Crew’s Hole, labourer (BRO Will 1770 of Sarah Powell and BRO Will 1796 of William Crinks).

1782	17 May. A potmaker of St George, Gloucestershire, he was granted a licence to marry Sarah Jones of St George, at St George. Bondsman: William Hamblin, St Augustine’s parish, potmaker (M).
1785	25 Mar. Charles, son of Samuel Crinks of Bread Street, potmaker, baptised (PPR).
1787	17 Nov. He witnessed the apology given by John Howell, potter, for assaulting an officer of St Peter’s Hospital (BMBJ).
1792	Potmaker, John Street, St Philip’s (RD).
1793-97	Potmaker and mason for glass works, St Philip’s (MD).
1798	Potmaker and mason for glass works, Crew’s Hole (MD).
1798	3 May. ‘Died last week at his house in Crewshole, Mr Samuel Crinks, many years a master potter and furnace builder at St Philip’s Glassworks, a man of integrity and uprightness, and much esteemed by all his aquaintances’ (BG).
1800	27 Nov. He was described as a potter, late of Bristol, when his son Samuel, was apprenticed to J. Alden, a butcher (A).
	Rate book entries: 21 Dec 1790-21 Dec 1791 Saml. Crinks, Three Crown Lane (St Philip’s-LS) 29 Sep 1796-29 Sep 1797 Saml. Crinks John Street (St Philip’s-Wa) 27 Sep 1801-29 Sep 1802 Widw. Crinks John Street (St Philip’s-Wa).

CROFTS Edward

See the Potteries List section for the Redcliff Street Pottery 1.

1668	Edward Crofts was recorded as paying rent on a ‘work house’ in St Mary Redcliffe parish, which suggests that he was operating a pottery, probably producing tin-glazed earthenware, at that time.
c1660-70	He was residing in St Mary Redcliffe parish between these dates and may have been operating a pottery during that period.

1660	22 Dec. A potter of St Mary Redcliffe parish he was one of the persons required that they ‘doe hang out a Lanterne and Candle lighted at their respective doors during this season from six to nine of the clock evy. night upon paine for forfeiting for evy. default 3s.4d’ (MO).
1665	30 Dec. A potter of St Mary Redcliffe parish, he was bondsman to a licence granted to John Weston, clothworker (M).
1666	27 Dec. Ann Bissicke of Brislington, widow of John Bissicke, gallypotmaker, bequeathed ‘unto Edward Croftes my great household Bible in token of my love … I doe give and bequeath unto Sarah the wife of Edward Croftes one small booke Called the Sanctuary of a Troubled soule. Item I doe give and bequeath unto Sarah the daughter of the said Edward Croftes my silver cuppe with my husbands name and myne ingravin thereon. Item I doe give and bequeath unto Elizabeth the daughter of the said Edward Croftes Tenne shillings in moneys to buy her a ring. Item I doe give and bequeath further unto Sarah the wife of the said Edward Croftes my gold deathes head ring … Item I doe give and bequeath more unto Sarah Croftes daughter as aforesaid of Edward Croftes my small box of drawers …’ (PRO Prob. 11/323).
1668	6 Mar. A lease between the Dean and Chapter of Bristol and Edward Crofts of Bristol, potter, in consideration of the surrender of a lease dated 1 July 13 Charles II, between the Dean and Chapter of Bristol and Edward Lewis of Bristol, cooper, and for a sum of money, of the following premises: ‘All that messuage or tenement wherein one John Richards formerly dwelt and now in the tenure of Edward Croft situate in Redcliff St in St Mary Redcliffe parish between a tenement now or late in the holding of the Thomas Gerry cooper on the one side and a tenement in the holding of the said Edward Croft on the other side together with all shops, cellars, sollars, halls, etc.’ for a term of 40 years and for an annual rent of 30 shillings (BRO DC/E/40/44/1). By 2 May 1671 the above tenement was described as being in the tenure of Widow Crofts (BRO DC/E/40/37/52068). By 21 December 1689, Edward Yeamans, mariner, was living in Crofts’ property and the lease had passed to Yeamans (BRO DC/E/40/37/52083). Yeamans was the husband of Crofts’ daughter Elizabeth. This property can be identified as 108 Redcliff Street.
1668	An assessment for St Mary Redcliffe parish for the period 23 June 1668 to 29 September 1668 includes: ‘Edward Crofte p. work house Rent 1s.1d; Edward Crofte p. Dwellinghouse Rent 1s.6d Estate 1s.2d’ (BRO).
1670	18 Jan. ‘Whereas Edward Crofts, Potter, has lately builte upon the Cities waste on Redcliffe Backs the same being surveyed containes sixteene foote in breadth and six foote in width and being willing to hold and enjoy the same by grant from the Citie. It is this day agreed by and betweene the surveyors of the Citie Lands and the said Edward Crofts that for and in consideration of the yearly rent of six shillings and eight pence there – a lease granted him of the said ground and the buildings thereupon to hold for 99 years if he the said Edw. Croft, Sara Croft his wife & Eliza Croft their daughter or any or either of them shall happen soe long to live at the rent aforesaid and other covents. usuall in Citie Leases’ (BB). This property adjoined that leased to Crofts on 6 March 1668 and can be identified as 109 Redcliff Street.
1671	2 May. By this date Edward Crofts had died (BRO DC/E/40/37/52068).
1687	9 Nov. The will of Sarah Crofts of Bristol, widow: ‘I give devise and bequeath as followeth … Whereas (as Admex. to Edward Crofts my late husband dec’d) I stand possessed of an interest in All that Messuage or dwelling house and Garden hereunto adjoining conteyning by estimation One acre … situate in the North Streete of Bedminster in the County of Somsett … I doe hereby give … the same Messuage or dwelling house and Garden … unto my daughter Elizabeth Yeamans (now wife of Edward Yeamans of the Citty of Bristoll … Marriner) … And whereas alsoe I stand possessed of … A certaine Messuage or Tenement wherein one John Richards heretofore dwelt and wherein I the said Sarah Crofts, the Widdow Walker, John Grymes, Robert Castell and William Lancaster now dwell (pte whereof being now void) was alsoe late in the holding of James Stevens, Mason, situate and lying and being in Redcliffe Street … I doe hereby give devise and bequeath the said Messuage or Tenement … unto my Daughter Sara Crofts … Item I give and bequeath unto the said Sarah my Daughter fower Sandy pewter platters, one pewter plate, three pottingers, a paire of small gratis, a looking glasse, one great brasse pottage pott, one little pottage pott, one little brass Kettle, Three Ruggs and all such other goods as I have already delived to her which shee hath locked upp in the Roomes over the late dwelling of the said James Steevens and in the Cockloft over the forestreete Roomeths of the said Messuage or Tenement situate in Redcliffe Street … Item I give and bequeath unto the said Sarah my Daughter fower joint stooles, one table Board, and one Iron Back now being in the Dwelling house of Thomas Joines of the p’sh of Temple … Weaver … Item I give and bequeath unto the said Thomas Joines Tenn Shillings to buy him a Mourning Ring …’. The will was proved on 1 February 1689 (BRO Will).