Bristol Potters - L
Research by Reg Jackson
LOVE Thomas
| 1809 | Church Lane, St James’s Ward (28 years old) (BRO L3, Militia List). |
| 1818 | He was one of eight journeymen potters who was convicted of entering into an unlawful agreement for ‘controlling and affecting Messrs. Wm. & Thos. Powell, being persons carrying on the manufacture trade or business of a potter, in the conduct or management thereof, & severally sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for one month’. The Bright goblet to commemorate this event was made on 4 Dec. 1818 (Bristol Museum Acc. No. 2225). |
LOVELL Caleb
The son of Philip Lovell of Bristol, currier, deceased (A).
| 1751 | 8 Aug. He was apprenticed to Thomas II and Bathsheba Centle. Friends to find apparel (A, Ao, Ar). |
| 1756 | 26 Jun. His apprenticeship was transferred to William Taylor (A). |
| 1758 | 9 Sep. He became a free potter (F, G). |
| 1765 | 10 Dec. Together with Thomas Delap, a yeoman, he leased a property in Queen Square, owned by the Corporation of Bristol. The property comprised two tenements in the possession of Edward Cranfield, gentleman, and Richard Bayley, carpenter (BB). On 17 Mar 1781 the lease was transferred to Sarah Hale (BB). |
| 1766 | 24 Feb. Potter, Temple Street – he was admitted to the Wesleyan’s on trial (Wesleyan Membership Lists). |
| 1781 & 1784 | Potter, Lambeth (P). |
LOVELL Herbert William
Born c1886 in Fishponds (11C).
| 1911 | Potter’s labourer, 14 Grove Park Terrace, Fishponds (25), living with his wife May (22), born in Staple Hill, and Stanley (9 mths), born in Fishponds (11C). |
LOVELL Mary A.
Born c1858 in St George, the wife of Samuel Lovell (81C).
| 1881 | Potter’s assistant, 1 Bedwell Place, St Philip’s parish (23), living with her husband, Samuel, and children (81C). |
LOVELL Samuel
Born c1858 in St George, husband of Mary A. Lovell (81C).
| 1881 | Potter’s labourer, 1 Bedwell Place, St Philip’s parish (23), living with his wife Mary A. (23), potter’s assistant, born in St George and children Mary (2) and Alice (1), both born in St George (81C). |
| 1891 | Labourer, 3 Barton Cottage, St Philip’s parish (33), living with his wife Mary (33) and children Harriet (9), Minnie (7), Samuel (5), Rose (4), Daisy (1) and Florence (1 mth), all born in Bristol (91C). |
LUCAS Caroline
Born c1846 in Bristol (61C).
| 1861 | Works at Pottery, 6 Queens Head Court, Redcliff Street, St Thomas’s parish (15), living with his parents John and Sarah Lucas, labourer, born in Bristol (61C). |
LUCAS Enoch I
Born c1801, not born in Bristol, the father of Enoch Lucas II (41C).
| 1841 | Glass House Court, Temple parish (40), living with his wife Abigail (40) not born in Bristol and children (41C). |
| Children: Enoch, born c1821, not in Bristol (41C), George, born c1839, not in Bristol (41C) |
LUCAS Enoch II
Born c1821, not born in Bristol, the son of Enoch Lucas I (41C).
| 1841 | Glass House Court, Temple parish (20), living with his parents Enoch and Abigail Lucas, potter, not born in Bristol (41C). |
| 1848 | 19 Hov. Jacob Street, St Philip’s parish on the baptism of his son Elijah (aged 2 wks). Wife Elizabeth (PPR). |
LUCAS George
| 1885 | 5 Jul. 30 Church Street, Barton Hill on the baptism of his son George (born 10 Jun 1885). Wife Mary Ann Elizabeth (PPR). |
LUCAS John
Born c1851 in Bristol, the husband of Sarah Lucas (JBPR, 71C).
| 1871 | Pottery labourer, 34 Bishop Street, Bedminster (20), living with his wife Sarah (18), pottery labourer, born in Bristol (71C). |
| 1873 | 25 Dec. Somerset Street, Bedminster (22) the son of John Lucas (occupation illegible), married Mary Morris (21) of Somerset Street, the daughter of John Morris, a smith (JBPR). |
| 1881 | Railway porter, 1 Prewetts Place, St Mary Redcliffe parish (30), living with his wife Mary (28), born in Bristol, and children Alice (3) and William (in Bristol (81C). |
LUCAS Sarah
Born c1853 in Bristol, the wife of John Lucas (71C).
| 1871 | Pottery labourer, 34 Bishop Street, Bedminster (18), living with her husband John (20), pottery labourer (71C). |
LUFF Thomas
The son of Thomas Luff of Bristol, tiler, deceased (A).
| 1804 | 16 Apr. He was apprenticed to Charles and Mary Price (A, Ao). |
| 1812 | 1 Oct. He obtained his freedom as he was the apprentice of Charles and Mary Price (F). |
| 1812 | Ware potter, Ann Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1830 | Wade Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1832 | Castle Street, Castle Precincts (P). |
| 1832 | Castle Street, Castle Precincts (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
LUKINS Annie
Born c1895 in Fishponds, the sister of Lilian Lukins (11C).
| 1911 | Glazer pottery, 4 Bawns Place, Hockey’s Lane, Fishponds (16) (11C). |
LUKINS Lilian
Born c1897 in Fishponds, the sister of Annie Lukins (11C).
| 1911 | Printer pottery, 4 Bawns Place, Hockey’s Lane, Fishponds (14) (11C). |
LUND Benjamin
See the Potteries List section for Lund’s China Works.
| c1749-52 | An early porcelain factory was operated by Benjamin Lund and William Miller. The location of the factory is not known. |
The Pottery was sold in 1752.
For further information and a discussion as to the possible site of the Pottery see: Jones, R. 2006. ‘The origins of Lund’s Bristol porcelain and the site of the Bristol manufactory’, Northern Ceramic Society Journal 23.
He was a brass-founder and stay-maker, living in St Philip and Jacob parish (Pountney 1920, 191-2). With William Miller, a Bristol banker, he established a porcelain factory in Bristol, c1749.
| 1692 | 30 Apr. Possibly the Benjamin Lund who was born in Hammersmith, Middlesex, the son of Benjamin and Mary Lund (PRO Piece 0498 Society of Friends Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex, Births, 1646-1708). |
| 1719 | 24 Dec. He married Christobel Ingram, the daughter of Robert Ingram, in Bristol (Ancestry website, Society of Friends Records, Bristol). |
| 1720 | 31 Aug. Mary, the daughter of Benjamin and Christobel Lund, was born at their house in Philip’s Plain. The midwives were recorded as Mary Champion and Elizabeth Coysgarne (PRO Piece 1440 Monthly Meeting of Bristol, Births, 1654-1777). |
| 1738 | 9 Jan. Benjamin, the son of Benjamin and ‘Chrissed’ Lund, was born at their house in Philip and Jacob parish (PRO Piece 1440 Monthly Meeting of Bristol, Births, 1654-1777). |
| 1749 | 7 Mar. He was granted a licence for a term of twenty one years to draw soap rock from Gewcrease in the parish of Mullion, Cornwall. He was to begin operations within three months of that date, to pay dues of 10s a ton to the landowner and to draw at least 20 tons of the rock a year (Nance 1935, 82-3). |
| 1749 | 17 Dec. ‘Christable Lund’, presumably his wife, of St Philip’s parish, was buried at the Redcliff burial ground (PRO RG6/666 Quaker Records, Monthly Meeting of Bristol, Burials (1655-1780)). |
| 1750 | 2 Nov. Dr Richard Pococke, an Irish traveller, wrote to his mother about a visit he had made to a Bristol porcelain factory in 1750: ‘I went to see a manufacture lately established here by one of the principal manufacturers at Limehouse which failed. It is at a Glasshouse & is called Loudn’s Glass-house. They have two sorts of ware, one called Stone china which has a yellow cast, both in the Ware & the glazing, that I suppose is made of Pipe-clay & calcin’d flint. The other they call Old China, that is whiter & I suppose this is made of Calcin’d flint & the Soapy rock at Lizard point which ‘tis known they use, this is painted blue & somewhat like old white China of a yellowish cast; another kind is white with a blewish cast; & both called Fine ornamental white china; they make very beautiful white Sauce boats adorned with reliefs of festoons which sell for sixteen shillings a pair’. |
| 1750 | 24 Nov and 1 and 8 Dec. ‘Whereas for some time past attempts have been made in this city, to introduce a manufactory in imitation of China Ware, and the proprietors having brought the said undertaking to a considerable degree of perfection, are determin’d to extend their works and sales of ware, as soon as proper hands can either be procured or instructed in the several branches of the said business: they therefore give this notice, that if parents, or guardians of any young lads above the age of fourteen are inclined that they shall learn the Art of Pottery, as practised in Staffordshire, and will find them lodging and all necessaries during the term of apprenticeship, no money will be required for learning them in the best manner, and in particular children of either sex, not under the above age, may be learned to draw and paint by persons appointed for that purpose, that they may be qualified to paint the said ware, either in the India or Roman Taste, whereby they may acquire a genteel subsistance, The consideration expected for such instruction, being the perquisite of the painters, it is left to them and the persons to agree. Any person that is inclin’d to purchase a six or four leaved screen, or to have one or more made to any particular height or dimension may be directed where to apply by Mr Lund, on St Philip’s Plain, who also can inform them concerning the above particulars’ (BWI). |
| 1751 | 20 Jul. An advertisement appeared for sale of ware made in the ‘Imitation of Foreign China’ at the porprietors’ warehouse in Castle Green (BWI). |
| 1752 | 18 Jan & 25 Jan. An advertisement appeared giving notice that during the time of the Fair ‘the ware made in this city in Imitation of Foreign Porcelain or China’ would be sold at the proprietors’ warehouse next to the Bell Inn in Temple Street (BWI). |
| 1752 | 6 Feb. Richard Holdship of Worcester, glower, purchased from Benjamin Lund a ‘mine of clay or Soft Rock called or known by the name of Kinance in the parish of Mullion, in the County of Cornwall, which earth or clay was used in making of certain Earthen Ware in imitation of China Ware commonly called Bristol Porcelain Ware’ and also from Benjamin Lund and William Miller ‘their stock, utensils and effects and the process of the said Bristol Manufactory’ (Toppin 1954, 132-3). |
| 1753 | 23 Feb. In his bankruptcy case Lund was described as ‘late of parish of St Philip & Jacob … dealer in copper and brass but now of the City of Worcester, china maker’ (PRO ASSI 45/25/1/89-90 Bankruptcy Order Book). |
| 1767 | 10 Dec. Benjamin Lund made his will leaving ‘all that principal money I may have in the hands of Mr John Turner junr merchant of Birmingham and interest at the time of my death’ to ‘my cousin Joseph Hopkins junr, cooper, of the Falls on James’s River, Virginia, his two brothers and four sisters’. Also to the same he left ‘a certain life annuity of fifty pounds a year’ payable by John Turner and his brother William Turner ‘and … all other effects to me belonging at the time of my death whether consisting in money, goods or of any other nature whatsoever’. He left Joseph Hopkins ‘my silver watch, maker’s name Harding, No.1400’. He instructed that his ‘gold watch chain and seal, maker’s name Thomas Hunter, London, No.230’ should be sold and the proceeds, together with £30 cash, be used to for the ‘purchase of clothing either in Irish linen or otherwise at the discretion of my executors … for the use of Joseph Hopkins, his two brothers and four sisters …’. The will was proved on 25 Feb 1768. (PRO Prob 11/Piece 936, Will Registers 1768-1772). [Thomas Hunter worked as a watch and clock maker in Fenchurch Street, London, from 1759 to 1799 (www.British Museum.org/research)]. |
| 1768 | 5 Jan. ‘Benjamin Lunn’ of Castle Precincts was buried at the Fryars burial ground (PRO RG6/666 Quaker Records, Monthly Meeting of Bristol: Burials (1655-1780)). |
LUNDBERG (or LUNDBERRY) Magnus I
The father of Magnus Lundberg II.
| 1741 | Probaby the Magnus Lundberg who was employed as a delftware painter at the Rörstrand Pottery in Sweden, and who appears to have left Röstrand between 1741 and 1745 (Charleston 1963, 228). |
| 1746 | 18 Oct. He was living in St Nicholas parish, Bristol, with Mary when their son, Magnus II, was baptised (NPR). |
| 1746 | 30 Nov. The marriage of ‘Magnus Lundberg and Mary Smith pr. Banns’ (St Augustine’s PR). On 22 Dec 1745, a John Leaker married Elizabeth Smith (St Augustine’s PR), she was the sister of Mary, Lundberg’s wife and Mary Lunberg was to be administratrix of her sister’s estate after Elizabeth’s death (see below). |
| 1750 | 21, 28 Apr. and 5, 12 May. ‘To be sold at Magnus Lundberg, and Comp’s Warehouse, near the Corn-Market, behind Queen’s Square, Variety of all sorts of Blue and White Earthen Ware, Stone Ware, North Country Ware, etc. where Merchants for Exportation, Country Dealers for Inland Demands, and Housekeepers for private use, may be supplied on the best Terms, either Wholesale or Retail’ (BWI). |
| 1751 | 5 Mar. ‘William Jefferis Esq. Queen Square. A front Tenement and Warehouse in his own possn. and a Back Tenemt. in possn. of Magnus Lundberry City Lands’ (PBk). |
| 1757 | A bowl in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, depicts the sailing ship ‘Magdalena Dorothea’ and is inscribed ‘1757’. On the base is the name ‘Magnus Lundberg’. |
| 1758 | A Magnus Lundberg appears as a juror in the Bristol Quarter Sessions records (Q). |
| 1760 | A ‘Magnus Lundburg’ had an account with John Wedgwood of Burslem, Stafforshire, for the purchase of pottery between September 1760 and November 1763 (Charleston 1967, 44). |
| 1763 | 6 Dec. A lease to Jane Hobhouse of a property in the East row of Queen Square with a ‘tenement fronting the River Avon … now in the possession of Magnus Lumberg, a potter’. Lundberg was still noted as a tenant when the lease was transferred to Michael Miller on 8 May 1764 (BB). |
| 1764 | Lundberg again had an account with Wedgwood for the purchase of pottery between September 1764 and August 1769. By the end of 1768, Lundberg owed Wedgwood the sum of £131.10s.0d. A Mr Frank was connected with the purchase of this pottery and this may be Richard Frank (Charleston 1967, 44-5). |
| 1767 | 23 and 30 May. An account of a Bristol Pottery written by a visitor appeared in a Swedish newspaper, the ‘Göteborgska Spionen’: ‘We also saw the Porcelain or Faience factory, in which the only Swede established here, of the name of Lundberg, a good man, has an interest, but also is in charge as a master …’ (Charleston 1963, 226). |
| 1768 | 29 Oct. A potter of Bristol, he was a bondsman to the administration of the estate of Thomas Everett of Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire, ropemaker, deceased (Adm.). |
| 1769 | 4 Jan. ‘Elizabeth Leaker Lundurge’ buried (CPR). A memorial inscription in St Andrew’s Churchyard, Clifton, record ‘Elizabeth Leaker Lundberry, Died Dec. 31, 1769, aged 13’ (Bigland 1791, 396). |
| 1769 | 7 Jan. ‘Sunday died suddenly Miss Lundberg, only daughter of Mr Lundberg, on the Back’ (FFJ). |
| 1770 | 9 Apr. The Pottery described in the newspaper report dated 1767 (see above) can now be positively identified as that owned by Richard Frank and Son on Redcliff Back, due to the following Quarter Sessions record, ‘Frank ags Jones and Roper (Jones in Goal-Sessions) inform. for earthenware. The Information of Magnus Lundberg Foreman to Mr Richd. Franks and Son Potters …’ (Q). See under the Redcliff Back Pottery 1 for details. |
| 1770 | 18 Sep. ‘Lundberg ags Dunford (in Goal) Inform. for Dealboards. The Information of Magnus Lundberg (Potter [crossed out in the original]) Dealmerchant and Richard Deveral and John Ball Waterman at the Ferry on Redcliff Backs. The Informant Magnus Lundberg on his Oath Saith that within the Month past he hath lost Deals out of his Yard on Redcliff Backs in the parish of St Mary Redcliffe … to the value of Three pounds and upwards And the Informants Richard Deverell and John Ball for themselves on their oaths say that they saw the person now in Custody giving his name Patrick Dunford on Saturday Evening last take the Two Half Deal Boards now produced of the value of Eight Pence out of the said Deal Yard of the said Magnus Lundberg …’ (Q). |
| 1770 | 3 Nov. Patrick Dunford was convicted of stealing deal boards from Magnus Lundberg and was sentenced to transportation for seven years (FFJ). |
| 1771 | 21 Oct. His son, Magnus Lundberry, a potter of St Nicholas parish was granted a licence to marry Catherine Bourne of the same parish, at St Nicholas (M). |
| 1771 | 26 Oct. ‘On Thursday was married at St Nicholas-Church, Mr —- Lunburg son of Mr Magnus Lunburg on the Back …’ (FFJ). |
| 1780 | 15 Feb. ‘Magnus Lundbury’ buried (CPR). |
| 1780 | 17 Feb. ‘Died. Mr Magnus Lundberry, on the Back, father of Mr Lundberry, auctioneer’ (BG, BMBJ). |
| 1786 | 12 Jan. Administration of the property of Elizabeth leaker, widow, was granted to Mary Lunberry, her sister, who was the widow of Magnus Lundberg I. Magnus Lundberry II, broker, and William James, boatbuilder, were bondmen (Adm.). |
| 1795 | 2 May. ‘Tuesday died suddenly in Castle-Green, sincerely regretted by her family and friends, Mrs Mary Lundberry, widow, full of her faith and good works; she kept in mind that awful admonition of her Lord and Saviour – Watch, for ye know not what hour the Master of the House cometh’ (BMBJ). |
| 1795 | 21 Jul. Lundberg’s widow, Mary, had died intestate and her son, Magnus Lunberry agreed that he would administer her estate (Adm.). |
| Rate and tax book entries: Property 1: 1757 ‘Sml. Maddox now Lunburg’ Denmark Street (St Augustine’s-LS)Property 2: 25 Dec 1759-29 Sep 1771] ‘Magnus Lunberg’ Backside of the Square (St Nicholas-LS) Property 3: Property 4: |
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| Children: Magnus II, bapt 18 Oct 1746 (NPR), John, bapt 19 Feb 1749 (NPR), died 22 Aug 1753 (CPR), Mary, bapt 4 Nov 1750 (NPR), died 26 Dec 1752 (CPR), Charles, buried 7 Feb 1759 (CPR), Elizabeth Leaker, buried 4 Jan 1769 (aged 13 years) (CPR), Michael, who married the daughter of Richard Frank, potter, in 1787 (BMBJ) |
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| Magnus Lundberg I is mentioned in a number of publications: | |
| Charleston, R.J. 1963. Bristol & Sweden: some delftware connexions. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle 5.4, 222-234. | |
| Charleston, R. 1966. Lundberg and Ljungberg – give and take in the ceramic industry in the 18th century. Opuscula in Honorem Carkl Hernmarck, National Museum, Stockholm, p.39-54. | |
| Jackson, R. & P. 1979. Magnus Lundberg and the Redcliff Back Pottery, Bristol. Privately published. |
LUNDBERG (or LUNDBERRY) Magnus II
The son of Magnus Lundberg I.
| 1746 | 18 Oct. Magnus Lundberg, son of Magnus Lundberg I and Mary, baptised (NPR). |
| 1771 | 21 Oct. A potter of St Nicholas parish he was granted a licence to marry Catherine Bourne of the same parish, at St Nicholas. Bondsman: Edward Bourne, St Nicholas parish, merchant (M). |
| 1771 | 24 Oct. Magnus Lundberry married Catherine Bourne (NPR). |
| 1771 | 26 Oct. ‘On Thursday was married at St Nicholas-Church, Mr —- Lunburg, son of Mr Magnus Lunburg on the Back, to Miss Bourne, Daughter of Captain Borne, Water Bailiff of this Port’ (FFJ). |
After 1771 he is referred to as a broker, auctioneer and a rope maker (manufacturer of ‘Twice Laid cordage’). He went bankrupt in 1782 and then became an accountant, living in Castle Green. He died on 8 June 1802 and his wife, Catherine, was the sole beneficiary in his will.
LUSCOMBE George
| 1780 | 8 Mar. He was described as a Bristol china maker, deceased, on the apprenticeship of his son, Robert, to Richard Blannin, silk dyer (A). |
LYON William
| 1863 | 25 Dec. James’s Place on the baptism of his son Wallis John (born 28 Nov 1863). Wife Mary Ann (PPR). |