Bristol Potters - H
Research by Reg Jackson
HOOKWAY John
The son of John Hookway of Bristol, labourer (A).
| 1805 | 22 Jun. He was apprenticed to Charles and Mary Price (A, Ao). |
HOOKWAY Maria
Born c1807 in St George (51C).
| 1851 | Hollow ware presser, widow, 4 Daws Cottages, Cornwallis Place, St Philip’s parish (44) (51C). |
| 1861 | House servant, widow, living in St Peter’s Hospital, St Peter’s parish (55) (61C). |
HOOKWAY William
| 1849 | 20 May. Noted as a potter when his son Joseph Hookway (24) a labourer of 3 Temple Backs, Temple parish married Maria Norman (TPR). |
HOOPER Charlotte
Born c1859 in St Philip’s parish (71C).
| 1871 | Pottery operative, 9 Mary le Port Buildings, Oxford Road, St Philip’s parish (12), the daughter of James, a gas stoker (71C). |
HOOPER James
Born c1837 in St Mary Redcliffe parish, or Pill, Somerset (61C, 71C, 81C).
| 1860 | 4 Nov. East Street, Bedminster (24) the son of Matthew Hooper, a haulier, he married Eliza Randall (22) of East Street, the daughter of William Randall, a cordwainer (JBPR). |
| 1861 | Stoneware potter, 1 Great George Street, St Philip’s parish (24), living with his wife Eliza (22) a tobacco pipe maker born in St Philip’s parish (61C). |
| 1861 | 20 Oct. New Street, St Philip’s parish, on the baptism of his son James Joseph (born 27 Sep 1861) (PPR). |
| 1871 | Potter, ‘The Volunteer’, 31 New Street, St Philip’s parish (34), living with his wife Eliza (32), tobacco pipe maker, and children Eliza (9), Alfred (3) and Rose (1), all born in Bristol (71C). |
| 1881 | Publican, 18 Clarence Road, St Philip’s parish (44), living with his wife Eliza (44) and children including Mary Louise (6), William (4) and James (11 mths), all born in Bristol (81C). |
| 1891 | He is not mentioned in the census. His wife was a licensed victualler at the Volunteer public house, 7 New Street, St Philip’s parish (52) with her children including Rose (9) and Emily (3), both born in Bristol (91C). |
| 1893 | 2 Apr. Noted as a potter when his daughter Mary Louisa Hooper (19) of Broad Plain, St Philip’s parish married George White (PPR). |
HOOPER Richard
| 1808 | 18 Jan. Noted as a potter of Temple Street, Temple parish when he took James Martin as an apprentice (Ao). |
HOOPER Richard Colston
| 1873 | 16 Nov. 15 Marsh Lane, St Philip’s parish on the baptism of his son Richard Colston (born 13 Oct 1873). Wife Amelia (PPR). |
HOPE John
See the Potteries List section for the 131 Temple Street Pottery.
The Pottery had previously been run by Thomas Fletcher, who had died by March 1779. John Hope subsequently married Fletcher’s widow, Sarah.
| c1781-1811 | John Hope ran the 131 Temple Street Pottery. |
| 1812-22 | John Hope and John Bright I ran the 131 Temple Street Pottery, trading as Hope and Bright. |
John Hope died in 1822 and the partnership between John Hope and John Bright I was dissolved in December 1822. John Bright I then ran the Pottery alone.
| 1760 | 3 Jun. Noted as a potter living in a property on Redcliff Back (BB, BRO 01712(2)). |
| 1763-64 | Possibly the John Hope for whom John Harwell, potter, stood surety to keep an alehouse in St Mary Redcliffe parish (AKL). |
| 1766 | Possibly the John Hope for whom Thomas Taylor II, potter, stood surety of £5 to keep an alehouse in St Mary Redcliffe parish (AKL). |
| 1772 | 16 & 18 Jan. ‘Sunday died Mrs Hope, wife of Mr Hope, potter, on Redcliff Hill’ (BG, FFJ). |
| 1772 | 23 Jun. St James’s parish, potter, he was bondsman to a licence granted to William Stringer Vicary, mariner of St James’s to marry Mary Hope (possibly his daughter) of St James’s parish, spinster (M). |
| 1780 | 18 Dec. Temple parish, he was granted a licence to marry Sarah Fletcher, widow, of Temple parish at Temple church. Sarah Fletcher was presumably the widow of Thomas Fletcher, potter, and this was how John Hope acquired the 131 Temple Street Pottery (M). |
| 1780 | 19 Dec. He married Sarah Fletcher (Ancestry website). |
| 1783 | 7 May. Thomas Lawrence, Peregrine Bowen and Josiah Hill were the proposed purchasers of the lease of property on Redcliff Back, including ‘A tenemt Late in the Possessn of Jno Hope potter and now of Henry Phillips’ (PBk). |
| 1783 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street (BWMD). |
| 1785 | John Hope, stone potter, Temple Street (BBD). |
| 1786 | 2 Sep. ‘Monday died Mrs Hope, wife of Mr John Hope, potter, in Temple-street’ (BMBJ). |
| 1787 | John Hope, brown stone ware manufacturer, Temple Street (BWMD). |
| 1787 | 21 Oct. He married Martha Hooper (Ancestry website). |
| 1787 | 27 Oct. ‘Sunday last – was married at Temple church, Mr John Hope, potter, in Temple-street, to Miss Martha Hooper, of Bedminster’ (BMBJ). |
| 1790-91 | He was recorded as having a property with 11 windows and he employed one female servant (Temple-W). |
| 1792-97 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street. Residence: 8 Somerset Square (RD, MD). |
| 1797 | 25 Jan. John Hope, Temple Street – List of persons whose gouts lead into the Common Sewer between Temple and St Thomas parishes (Q). |
| 1800-01 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street. Residence: Somerset Square (MD). |
| 1802 | 27 Apr. ‘The Information of John Dodge of Pipe Lane, potter, and Thomas Aldridge of Temple Street, carpenter
The Informant John Dodge on his oath saith that last week some iron bars were stolen out of his Masters John Hope’s kilns in Temple Street in this city, that he hath seen the iron bars now produced and knows the same to be the property of Master John Hope and are of the value of one shilling and the Informant Thomas Aldridge on his oath saith that on the twenty second instant the man now in custody giving his name as Thomas Cronen came to this Informants shop and offered the iron bars now produced for sale’ (Q). |
| 1803 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street (MD). |
| 1804 | 18 Jul. When his apprentice, John Evans II, obtained his freedom it implies that John Hope was deceased (F). |
| 1804-05 | The window tax return for Temple parish records John Hope as having 11 windows, one dog and paying hair powder duty (Temple-W). |
| 1805-08 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street (MD). |
| 1806 | 22 Nov. ‘Sunday last (16th) was married at Temple Church, Captain Richard Hooper, of this port, to Miss S. Fletcher, daughter-in-law of Mr John Hope, patent water pipe and brown stone manufacturer, Temple Street’ (FFJ). |
| 1808-09 | John Hope possibly signs as a constable in the Watch Rates (Temple-Wa). |
| 1809 | 24 May. John Hope, Temple Street, patent pipe maker (Q). |
| 1809-11 | John Hope, stone ware and patent water pipe manufactory, 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1810-22 | Hope & Co., Hope & Bright and J. Bright exported stoneware (including garden pots and earthen pipes) to Guernsey, Jersey, Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Oporto, Grenada, St Vincent, Barbados, Jamaica and Quebec (PB-EXP). |
| 1811 | 24 May. John Hope of Temple Street, potter, on a house only in tenure of Mrs Barber. Sun Fire Policy 857671. (Blakeley 1978-79, 146).
24 May. John Hope of Temple Street. On his now dwelling house situate as aforesaid not exceeding £100 … contents therein … not exceeding £200. Pottery adjoining but not communicating a brick wall between not exceeding £400 (house in tenure of a baker £400). Sun Fire Policy 857672 (Blakeley 1978-79, 146). |
| 1812-19 | Hope & Bright, stoneware and patent water pipe manufactory, 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1819 | John Hope, stoneware potter. (Plans of Church Land belonging to the Parish of Temple made by J.W. Turnbull 1819-20, BRO Aa 65(2)). |
| 1820-21 | Hope & Bright, stoneware potters and patent water pipe manufactory, 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1822 | Sun Policy 996849 Michaelmas 1822-23. ‘Martha Hope of Langton Street, Bedminster, Gentlewoman – on her Household Goods, Wearing Apparel, Printed Books and Plate in her now dwelling house only situate aforesaid £200. House only at Bedminster aforesaid in tenure of John Hewlett undertaker no work done therein £300. Workshop behind near £50. House only in Temple Street … in tenure of John Bright, potter, timber & tiled £200. Pottery in one building adjoining the last above mentioned but not communicating therewith, a brick wall between £500. House only adjoining said Pottery but not communicating therewith a brick wall between in the tenure of Clark a baker. Oven included but no sea biscuits baked therein £200. House only at No.12 Stokes Croft, Bristol, in tenure of Abraham, private £300. All Stone, Brick and Tiled except as aforesaid’. |
| 1822 | 1 Jun. John Hope of Temple Street, potter, made his will, leaving to his wife Martha all his ‘personal estate, plate, property and effects of every sort and description absolutely’ including his ‘freehold messuage, dwelling house and premises in Bedminster’ and his ‘freehold messuage or dwellinghouse in the occupation of Charles Clarke, baker, situate in Temple Street (adjoining the messuage, or dwellinghouse, workshops and premises now in my own occupation and in the occupation of Messrs Hope and Bright)’. In the event of his wife’s death his property was to go to his brother Robert Hope, to whom he also left an annuity of £40. He left his freehold dwellinghouse in Stokes Croft to Richard Hooper and James Allen of Bristol, gentlemen, and William Fletcher ‘now in my employ’ in equal shares. The will was witnessed, amongst others, by the potter Joseph Hazard. The will was proved on 14 September 1822 (PRO Prob11/1661). |
| 1822-23 | Hope & Bright, original stoneware pottery and patent water pipe manufacturers, 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1823 | Temple Street (west side) Proprietor: Mrs Hope Dwellinghouse and stoneware shop and manufactory. Occupier: John Bright £52 (BRO 04248). |
| 1823 | 5 Apr. Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofor subsisting between John Hope and John Bright, of Temple Street, carrying on the trade of potters, stone-ware, and patent-water-pipe-manufacturers, under the firm of ‘Hope and Bright’ was dissolved and determined on and from the 31st day of December now last past … Signed Martha Hope and Richard Hooper (Executrix and Executor of the said John Hope) and John Bright.
Mrs Hope returns her sincere thanks for the favours received by her deceased Husband; and informs her Friends and the Public that the Business will be carried on in future, in all its branches, by his late Copartner, John Bright … (FFJ). |
| 1823 | 24 May. ‘Died (Monday 19th) … Mrs Hope, relict of Mr Hope, patent stone-pipe and brown-stone manufacturer, Temple-street’ (FFJ). |
| 1823 | 7 Jun. To be sold by auction ‘All the handsome household furniture, brackets clock, fine china, richly cut glass, superior table and bed linen, prints and other effects of Mrs Hope, deceased, at her late residence, no. 33 Langton Street, Cathay, Bristol. The household furniture comprises handsome mahogany four-post and other bedsteads, with furniture; exceedingly fine goose feather and milpuff beds; mattresses and excellent bedding; mahogany chests of drawers; basin-stands; bureau and bookcase; sideboard; dining, card, Pembroke, and dressing tables; sofa, with cases; mahogany and painted chairs; chimney, pier and swing looking glasses; Brussels, Kidderminster, and Venetian carpets; painted floor cloth, and a variety of culinary articles’ (FFJ). |
| 1823 | 3 Nov. Sun Policy 1009346. Richard Hooper and James Allen of the City of Bristol, Gents in Trust – On a House only in Temple Street … in tenure of John Bright, Potter, timber and tiled £300. Pottery in one building adjoining the aforesaid but not communicating therewith a brick wall between, brick and tiled £500. |
| Apprentice: With wife Elizabeth: John Evans II, 17 Oct 1791 (A, Ao) – 18 Jul 1804 (F) |
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| Rate and tax book entries: Property 1: [29 Sep 1760 – 25 Mar 1768 John Hope Redcliff Street and Backs/Pile Street (SMR – W, Wa, LS) 21 Dec 1771 – 21 Dec 1772 John Hope ½ year Redcliff Hill (SMR-LS) 25 Mar 1771 – 29 Sep 1771 John Hope void (SMR-L)Property 2: 1781 – 29 Sep 1812] John Hope Temple Street (Temple-W,LS,Pa,L,Wa,H) 1822-23] Messrs Hope & Bright Temple Street (Temple-H) |
HOPKINS Edward
Born c1885 in Bristol, the son of James Hopkins IV and the brother of William Hopkins (01C).
| 1901 | Potter’s labourer, 24 Lombard Street, Bedminster (16), living with his parents and siblings (01C). |
| 1902 | 30 Dec. Probably the Edward Hopkins, general labourer, born in Bedminster in 1885, who enlisted in the 13th Hussars (British Army Pension Records, 1914-1920). |
HOPKINS Edwin
Born 1842 in Temple parish (FM, 61C, 71C).
| 1842 | 13 Mar. Baptised (FM). |
| 1851 | Potter, 6 Queens Head Court, St Thomas’s parish (9), the son of James, a labourer (51C). |
| 1860-63 | Long Row, St Thomas’s parish (ThPR). |
| 1861 | 3 Long Row, St Thomas’s parish (19), living with his wife Elizabeth (19) born in Bristol (61C). |
| 1863 | 26 Jul. ‘Edwin Hopkins, potter, for that he is the son of James Hopkins, labourer. Father’s copy dated 13 Jun 1826, cert. of marriage dated 25 Aug. 1822, cert. of baptism dated 13 March 1842, produced and birth proved’ (FM). |
| 1864 | 4 Sep. 4 Long Row, St Thomas’s parish (ThPR). |
| 1866 | 6 Jun. 5 Long Row (ThPR). |
| 1867 | 31 Mar. 3 Long Row (ThPR). |
| 1869-72 | 3 St Thomas Lane, St Thomas’s parish (ThPR). |
| 1871 | 3 Thomas Lane, St Thomas’s parish (30), living with his wife Elizabeth (30), born in Temple parish and children (71C). |
| 1881 | Potter (stoneware), 3 Thomas Lane, St Thomas’s parish (40) (born in St Thomas’s parish), living with his wife Elizabeth (39) and children (81C). |
| 1891 | His wife was a widow (91C). |
| 1899 | 19 Mar. Noted as a potter, deceased, when his daughter Mary Ann Hopkins (29) a dressmaker of Cotswold Road, Bedminster, married Ernest Walter Cox (JBPR). |
| Children: Edwin James, bapt 10 Sep 1860 (privately) (ThPR) Edwin James, bapt 19 May 1861 (ThPR) Mary Ann, born 24 Nov 1861, bapt 1 Feb 1863 (ThPR) Elizabeth, bapt 4 Sep 1864 (ThPR) Mary Ann, bapt 6 Jun 1866 (privately) (ThPR) Alfred George, bapt 31 Mar 1867 (ThPR) Mary Ann, bapt 27 Jun 1869 (ThPR) Charles, born 19 Jul 1871 (ThPR) Alice Emma, bapt 10 Dec 1880 (ThPR) |
HOPKINS James I
| 1823 | 20 Apr. Bread Street, St Philip’s parish on the baptism of his daughter Ann (aged 2 weeks). Wife Ann (PPR). |
HOPKINS James II
Born c1821 in Bedminster (51C).
| 1851 | Lodging at 3 Queens Head Court, St Thomas’s parish (30) (51C). |
HOPKINS James III
| 1851 | 30 Nov. John Street, St Philip’s parish on the baptism of his son James Samuel (aged 3 weeks). Wife Charlotte (PPR). |
HOPKINS James IV
Born c1852 in Bristol, the father of William and Edward Hopkins (01C).
| 1901 | Potter’s labourer, 24 Lombard Street, Bedminster (49), living with his wife Elizabeth (47) and children William (19), Edward (16), Annie (14) and Alice (10), all born in Bristol (01C). |
HOPKINS Thomas
Born c1867 in St Thomas’s parish (91C).
| 1891 | Pottery labourer, 8 Windmill Terrace, Bedminster (24), living with his wife Mary (30), born in Bedminster and son Thomas (4), born in Temple parish (91C). |
HOPKINS William
Born c1882 in Bristol, the son of James Hopkins IV and the brother of Edward Hopkins (01C).
| 1901 | Potter’s labourer, 24 Lombard Street, Bedminster (19), living with his parents and siblings (01C). |
| 1911 | Potter’s labourer, 6 Chapel Road, St Philip’s Marsh (29), living with his wife Esther Catherine (24) and children Esther (2) and Lillian (1), all born in Bristol (11C). |
HORTON Sarah Ann
Born c1841 in Temple parish (61C).
| 1861 | Potter’s transferer, 14 Wilmotts Crescent, Temple parish (20) (61C). |
HORTON William
Born c1848 in Market Lavington, Wiltshire (71C).
| 1871 | 6 Charlotte Street, Bedminster (23), living with his wife Alice (24), born in Temple parish (71C). |
HORWOOD Jane
Born c1827 (MLPPR).
| 1847 | 10 Jun. Worker in pottery, Mary le Port Street (20), the daughter of Stephen James Horwood, traveller, married Edward Randell, labourer, St Mary le Port Street, the son of William Randell, a shoemaker (MLPPR). |
HOSKINS Mary
| 1860 | 19 Oct. She was employed at the Bristol Pottery when she gave evidence in court (Western Daily Press). |