Bristol Potters - P
Research by Reg Jackson
PARKER William Albert
Born c1880 in Bristol, the husband of Ellen J. Parker (01C).
| 1901 | Potter, 24 Feeder Road, St Silas parish (21), living with his wife Ellen J. (22), also a potter (01C). |
| 1911 | Glost placer, 8 Midland Terrace, Fishponds (31), living with his wife Ellen (32), and daughter Elaine (2 mths), born in Bristol (11C). |
PARKIN (PARKYN) Arthur Stanley
Born c1883 in St George (01C, 11C).
| 1901 | Clerk in pottery, 493 Stapleton Road, Stapleton (18) (01C). |
| 1911 | Traveller, pottery, 493 Stapleton Road, Stapleton (28) (11C) |
PARR Thomas
| 1774 | 3 Oct. He became a free potter because of his marriage to Prudence, daughter of Thomas Patience, lighterman, deceased. Therefore, he may have been the brother-in-law of the potter Thomas Patience (F). |
| 1774 | Potter, St Philip and Jacob parish (P). |
| 1784 | Potter, St Thomas parish (P). |
PARROT John
The son of John Parrot of Bristol, house painter (A).
| 1775 | 22 Nov. He was apprenticed to Richard and Judith Champion as a ‘burner of china’ (A, Ao). |
PARRY Charles
| 1843 | 8 Oct. Marsh, St Philip’s parish on the baptism of his son Charles Joseph (aged 4 wks). Wife Mary Ann (PPR). |
PARRY Francis
Born c1812 in Temple parish (51C).
| 1830 | Temple Back, Temple parish (P). |
| 1832 | Temple Back, Temple parish (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1832 | Temple Back, Temple parish (P). |
| 1837 | Temple Back, Temple parish (P). |
| 1838 | 9 Dec. Temple parish (PPR). |
| 1841 | East Street, Bedminster (25) (41C). |
| 1841 | West Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1851 | 10 Aug. Hotwells, Clifton (PPR). |
| 1851 | 11 Pennywell Terrace, St Philip’s parish (39), living with his wife Matilda (32), a milliner, born in St Peter’s parish and children (51C). |
| Children: Francis Richard (aged 3 wks), bapt 9 Dec 1838 (PPR) (born in Temple parish 51C), Thomas Sharrem, born 8 May 1843, bapt 10 Aug 1851 (PPR) (born in Bedminster 51C) |
PARRY Mary Ann
Born c1848 in Bristol (51C).
| 1871 | Labourer at pottery, 3 Great Ann Street, St Philip’s parish (23), unmarried, living with her children Mary A. (3) and Eliza (11 months), both born in Bristol (71C). |
PARSE Abraham
| 1660 | 18 Mar. ‘Abraham Parse potter bound to John Bright merchant for 3 years’, probably to serve in Barbados (SFP). However, it is not stated that he came from Bristol. |
PARSONS Frederick
Born c1869 in Hereford (01C).
| 1901 | Foreman at pottery, 47 Bellevue Road, St George (32), living with his wife Alice (32) and children Gladys (7), Harold (4), Ivy (2) and Edith (6 mths), all born in Bristol (01C). |
| 1907 | 9 Dec. He was described as the foreman of a department at Price, Powell and Company (Western Daily Press). |
| 1911 | Pottery foreman, stoneware, 69 Colston Road, Easton (42), living with his wife Alice (42) and children (11C). |
PARSONS Thomas
| 1840 | 5 Oct. Noted as a potter when his daughter Elizabeth of Milk Street, St Paul’s, married William Morgan (PaPR). |
PARTON Leonard
Born c1876 in Tunstall, Staffordshire (11C).
| 1901 | Commercial clerk, 15 Higham Street, Bedminster (26), living with his wife Clara (24), born in Tunstall (01C). |
| 1911 | Potter’s clerk. Boarding at 7 Balaclava Road, Fishponds (35) (11C). |
PARTRIDGE Edward
Born c1837 in St James parish, the brother of Henry Partridge (61C, 71C).
| 1861 | Labourer, 1 Commercial Road, Temple parish (22), living with his parents, John, a shoemaker, Mary Ann, and siblings (61C). |
| 1871 | Potter, 24 Duffetts Buildings, St Philip’s parish (34), living with his wife Emily (29), born in Bath, Somerset, and son Henry (4), born in Bristol (71C). |
| 1881 | Labourer, 1 Salcombe Terrace, Bedminster (43), living with his wife Emily (39) (81C). |
PARTRIDGE Henry
Born c1832 in St Philip’s parish (71) or c1837, the brother of Edward Partridge (51C, 61C).Bristol (51C).
| 1851 | Potter, 8 Crown Court, Temple parish (14), living with his parents, John and Mary Partridge, cordwainers (51C). |
| 1861 | Shoemaker, 1 Commercial Road, Temple parish (24), living with his parents and siblings (61C). |
| 1871 | Tipper pottery, 5 Victor Place, Albert Road, St Philip’s parish (39), living with his wife Emily (21), born in St Philip’s parish (71C). |
| 1881 | His wife was a widow living with their children Henry (9), Timothy (7), Walter (4) and Willy (2), all born in Bristol (81C). |
PASFORD Robert
Born c1846 in Bristol (61C).
| 1861 | Kingsland Road, St Philip’s parish (15) (61C). |
PASS George
Born c1815 in Burslem, Staffordshire, the husband of Mary Tompkinson and son-in-law of Ephraim Tompkinson (61C).
| 1839 | 17 Jun. Arcade, St James’s parish, the son of George Pass, a greengrocer, he married Mary Tompkinson, a potter, of Arcade, the daughter of Ephraim Tompkinson, a potter (JaPR). |
| 1840 | 5 Apr. Temple parish on the baptism of his son, George. Wife Mary (TPR). |
| 1861 | 67 Temple Street, Temple parish (46) (61C). |
PASSEWELL William
| 1675 | 15 or 19 Jan. He was described as a potter of Brislington, Somerset, when his son, William, was apprenticed to Richard Swayne, cooper (A, Ar). |
| 1702 | 16 Jun. He was possibly the ‘William Passwell’ buried (BrisPR). |
Patch Henry
Born c1896 in Fishponds (11C).
| 1911 | Carter, pottery manufacturer, 1 Stoke View Road, Fishponds (15) (11C). |
PATCH William
Born c1880 in Bristol (01C).
| 1901 | Pottery (thrower), Bishopsworth Road, Bedminster (21) (01C). |
| 1911 | Pottery labourer, next to the chapel, Bishopsworth Road, Bedminster Down (30), living with his widowed mother and siblings (11C). |
PATEY Richard William
Born c1854 in Hallsands, Devon (11C).
| 1901 | Potter’s colour maker, 95 Woodville Road, Swadlincote, Derbyshire (48), living with his wife Marion (34) and daughter Margaret (10) (01C). |
| 1911 | Potter’s manager (sanitary ware), 424 Fishponds Road (57), living with his wife Marion (44), born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire and daughter Margaret (20), born in Torquay, Devon (11C). |
| 1933 | 1 Dec. He died in Bristol, aged 80 (Ancestry website). |
PATIENCE Edward
See the Potteries List section for the Temple Back Pottery 1.
The Pottery had probably previously been run by Richard Skidmore.
| 1803-1818 | Edward Patience ran the Temple Back Pottery 1. |
Due to Edward Patience’s rent arrears the Pottery was sold early in 1818, and was taken over by Jonathan Flood.
He was born c1779 in Bristol, the son of Thomas Patience (A).
| 1779 | 24 Mar. He was baptised, the son of Thomas and Ann Patience (TPR). |
| 1793 | 15 Apr. He was apprenticed to Joseph and Ann Gadd. Friends to find apparel and washing (A, Ao). |
| 1803 | 5 Jan. He became a free potter (F). |
| 1803-06 | Potter or stone potter, Temple Back (Ao). |
| 1804 | The Harbour Rate for Temple parish shows that the Pottery adjoined John Ring’s clay tobacco pipe factory (Temple-H). |
| 1805 | 21 Dec. Partnerships dissolved: Edward Patience, Samuel Gough and Thomas Gough of Bristol, brown stone-ware manufacturers (Staffordshire Advertiser – information from Rodney Hampson). |
| 1806-07 | Edward Patience and Co., brown stone potters, Temple Street (MD). |
| 1808-18 | Edward Patience, brown stone potter, Temple Back (MD). |
| 1809 | Edward Patience, potter, age 27, Colston’s Parade, Redcliffe Ward (BRO L3, Militia List). |
| 1812 | Potter, Iron Bridge, St Mary Redcliffe parish (P). |
| 1816 | Edward Patience, Temple Back (ED). |
| 1818 | 21 Feb. ‘Under Distress for Rent, To Be Sold By Auction … On the Premises … the 21st February … All the extensive and valuable Stock in Trade, Materials of two large-size Burning Kilns, numerous Manufacturing Implements, some articles of Household Furniture; and other Effects of Mr Edward Patience, Stone Potter, at his Manufactory, Temple-Backs, Bristol …’ (FFJ). |
| 1818 | 19 Mar. ‘Brown Stone Ware to be Sold by Auction … On the Premises … All the extensive and truly valuable Stock in Trade, numerous Manufacturing Implements and other effects, late the property of Mr E. Patience, Stone Potter, at his Manufactory, Temple Backs, Bristol. The Stock in Trade comprises an extensive variety of every description of Brown Stone, and Other Ware, numerous Fire Bricks, an assortment of clay and other articles …’ (BG). |
| 1818 | 28 Mar. ‘To Potters, Earthenware-Men and Others, To be Peremptorily Sold By Auction … the 1st and 2nd April, The Stock and Implements in Trade of Mr Patience, Potter, Temple-Backs … The Stock comprises large quantity of spirit, spruce and ginger beer, soda water, pickling, preserve and other jags; assortment of different kinds of Earthenware and numerous other Effects …’ (FFJ). |
| Apprentices: George Cox, 24 Jan 1803 (A, Ao) Thomas Collier, 27 Oct 1803 (A, Ao) Joseph Rees, 8 May 1804 (A, Ao) James Appleford, 3 Jun 1806 (A, Ao)-11 Jun 1818 (F) John Richmond, 9 Jun 1806 (A, Ao) Benjamin Matchin, 31 Dec 1806 (A, Ao)-7 Nov 1816 (F) |
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| Rate book entries: [1802-03] Patience & Co. ½ void Borough Walls (Temple-Wa) [1803-05 Patience & Co. Borough Walls (Temple-Wa) 1804-06 Edward Patience for Pottery Borough Walls (Temple-H) 1807-12 Edward Patience Pottery Borough Walls (Temple-Wa) |