Bristol Potters - G
Research by Reg Jackson
GARNER Fanny
Born c1853 in Staffordshire (71C).
| 1871 | Work at pottery, 1 Cooperidge Cottage, St Philip’s parish (18) (71C). |
GATES John
See the Potteries List section for the Lewin’s Mead Pottery.
| 1771 | John Gates was running the Lewins Mead Pottery which was offered for sale. |
No further details are known about the occupants of the Pottery.
| 1771 | 15 Aug. ‘Now selling off, under Prime-cost (on the Premises) All the Stock in Trade, belonging to the Pot-House, opposite the White Friars in Lewins-Mead, Bristol, lately in the Possession of John Gates; consisting of Brown Stone Ware, viz., oil-jars, Pickling Pots, Pitchers, Quart, Pint, and Half Pint Mugs, etc. Also the Pot-House compleat, To be Let, with a Kiln built on the Premises, four good wheels standing Plenty of Pot-Boards, and all sorts of Utensils necessary for a Pot-Manufactory, Likewise four Dwelling Rooms, belonging to the said Pot-House, with every other useful Conveniency for such a Work – The Premises may be viewed and further Particulars had by applying to John Gates, aforesaid’ (BG). |
GAY George
Born c1798 in Warmley, Gloucestershire (61C).
| 1851 | Potter and sexton of Wesleyan Chapel, 1 Augusta Place, St Philip’s parish (58), living with his wife Susan (62) born in St Philip’s parish (51C). |
| 1861 | 1 Augustus Place, St Philip’s parish (63), living with his wife Susan (71) (61C). |
GAY John
Born c1829 in Bristol (51C).
| 1851 | Potter’s labourer, Ivey Cottages, Baptist Street, St Philip’s parish (22), living with his wife Elizabeth (22), a warehouse woman, born in St George, and child Ellen (4 mths), born in Bristol (51C). |
GAYFORD George
Born c1863 in Bedminster (81C).
| 1881 | Labourer in pottery, 6 Plough Court, Thomas Street, St Thomas’s parish (18), living with his father James, an engine fitter (81C). |
GAYNARD (GAYNER) James
The son of James Gaynard of Bristol, scissor, deceased (A).
| 1714 | 13 Nov, 8 or 13 Dec. He was apprenticed to Thomas I and Elizabeth Frank with a gift from the Quaker’s charity (A, Ao, Ar). |
| 1722 | 14 Mar. He became a free gallypotmaker (F). |
| 1734 | Gallypotmaker, St Mary Redcliffe parish (P). |
| 1739 | Gallypotmaker, Castle Precincts (P). |
| 1743 | 15 Jul. Potter, Castle Precincts (Ao) |
| 1749 | 7 Nov. He was described as a potter, late of the city, when his son, Peter, was apprenticed to Elizabeth Prickett, widow of a barber surgeon (A, Ar). |
| 1756 | 1 Jun. Noted as a potter when his son, George, was apprenticed to Luke Wilmott, hooper (A). |
| 1762 | 15 Jan. Noted as a potter when his son, William, was apprenticed to James Gerrish, tailor (A). |
| 1781 | 9 Feb. He was dead when his son, James, became a free yeoman (G). |
| Apprentices: Alone: George Drewett, 9 Nov 1741 (A)-9 Feb 1781 (F)With wife Sarah: Edward Brent, 15 Jul 1743 (A, Ao, Ar)-transferred 7 Jun 1746 (A) Thomas Ridley, 15 Jul 1743 (A, Ar) |
GAYYARD Sarah
Born c1865 in Bristol (91C).
| 1891 | 29 Mildred Street, St George (26) (91C). |
GAZZARD Albert
Born c1853 in Bristol (71C).
| 1871 | Glost placer at pottery, Old Bread Street, St Philip’s parish (18), living with his father, Edwin, a house painter, mother and siblings (71C). |
| 1881 | Haulier, 12 Jacob Street, St Philip’s parish (28), living with his wife Mary (29), born in Bristol, and children Eliza M. (6), Alfred (5) and Maud (1), all born in Bristol (81C). |
GAZZARD William
Born c1840 in Hanham, Gloucestershire (71C).
| 1871 | Engine driver at pottery, 27 Bread Street, St Philip’s parish (31), living with his wife Ann (31), born in Bristol, and children Mary (12), Ann (10), Elizabeth (8), Henry (6), Alice (4), William (2) and Albert (7 mths), all born in Bristol (71C). |
| 1881 | Labourer, 17 Peel Street, St Philip’s parish (41), living with his wife Ann (41) and children including Joseph (9), Louisa (9), Frederick (6), Adaline (4) nad Arthur (2), all born in Bristol (81C). |
GEALE William
| 1866 | 22 Aug. He was an engineer at Pountney’s Bristol Pottery when he was injured in an accident at the works (Western Daily Press). |
GEORGE Cecilia
| 1841 | 25 Dec. Described as an employee of White’s Pottery, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, when she assaulted another employee, Ann Long. ‘Long took away George’s candle, on which the latter seized her by the throat, pulled her to the ground, twisted her neck, and violently beat her head against the floor’. George was ordered to be kept in custody until Long could leave the Royal Infirmary and was able to appear in court (Bristol Times). |
GEORGE Emily
Born c1896 in Bedminster, the daughter of Jane George and the sister of Harriet George (11C).
| 1911 | Printing transferer, pottery, 16 Grove Park Terrace, Fishponds (15), living with her parents (11C). |
GEORGE Harriet
Born c1883 in Bedminster, the daughter of Jane George and the sister of Emily George (01C, 11C).
| 1901 | Pottery transferer, 21 Hope Square, Bedminster (18), living with her parents (01C). |
GEORGE James
Born c1855 in St Jude (01C).
| 1891 | Pipemaker, 1 Penn Street, St Peter’s parish (35), living with his children Eliza (14) and Mary (12), both born in Bristol. His wife Eliza (36) was a patient in the Bristol Royal Infirmary (91C). |
| 1901 | Traveller in pottery, 68 Cotswold Road, Bedminster (46), living with his wife Eliza (46), born in Bristol (01C). |
| 1911 | Traveller, smoking pipes, 180 Ashley Road, Ashley Down (53), living with his wife Emma (35) and son Albert (8), born in Bath, Somerset (11C). |
GEORGE Jane
Born c1863 in Bedminster, the mother of Harriet and Emily George (91C, 01C, 11C).
| 1891 | Labourer in pottery, 20 Stone’s Buildings, Bedminster (28) (91C). |
| 1901 | Pottery transferer, 21 Hope Square, Bedminster (39), the wife of Joseph, a mason, and the mother of Harriet (18), a pottery transferer (01C). |
| 1911 | Assisting her husband who was a general dealer, 16 Grove Park, Terrace, Fishponds (49), the mother of Emily (15), a printing transferer (11C). |
GEORGE William
Born c1884 in Bedminster (11C).
| 1911 | Mason’s labourer, Fishponds Pottery, 6 Grove Park Terrace, Fishponds (27), living with his wife Elizabeth (24), born in South Wales, and children Lillian (3) and Florence (8 mths), both born in Fishponds (11C). |
| 1916 | 25 Jul. ‘Private William George of Grove Park Terrace was instantaneously killed, with four others, by the bursting of a shell in the war zone in France on the 8th inst. Letters from Lieut. Symes and the Rev. R.E. Ramsey (army chaplain of the Gloucesters) to Mrs George speak well of the young soldier, who left his work at the Fishponds Pottery to join up early in the war’ (Western Daily Press). |
GERRISH James
Born c1875 in Bedminster, the brother of Robert Gerrish (91C).
| 1891 | Labourer at pottery, 8 Brook Street, Bedminster (16) (91C). |
GERRISH Robert
Born c1874 in Bedminster, the brother of James Gerrish (91C).
| 1891 | Labourer at pottery, 8 Brook Street, Bedminster (17) (91C). |
GIBBS James
See the Potteries section for the St Philip’s Pottery 3.
| 1875 | 8 Sep. A James Gibbs was noted as the tenant of ‘all that Pottery erected and built by the said Thomas Hooper Riddle … and formerly in the occupation of Messrs Yabbicom … and [in 1848] in the occupation of William Henry Pardoe’ (BRO 19835(9)s). |
There are no references to James Gibbs as a potter and he may have been carrying on some other trade in the Pottery premises.
GIBBS Thomas I
| 1820-22 | Porter at the Pottery, aged 67 years (Methodist Class Book). |