Bristol Potters - W
Research by Reg Jackson
WHITE Charles R.
Born c1861 in Bristol, possibly the step-son of Samuel Holbrook (81C, 91C).
| 1881 | Possibly the Charles White, potter, who was living at 12 Atlas Street, St Philip’s parish, with his step-father, Samuel Holbrook (81C). |
| 1886 | 29 Aug. Kingsland Road, St Philip’s parish, on the baptism of his daughter Prudence Lily (born 10 Aug 1886) (PPR). |
| 1890 | 12 Oct. St George, on the baptism of his son William Henry (born 30 Aug 1890) (PPR). |
| 1891 | Whitehall Road, St George (30), living with his wife Sarah (24), born in Bristol, and children Prudence (5), Charles (2) and William Henry (1) (91C). |
| 1893 | 26 Mar. Whitehall, on the baptism of his son Henry Arthur (born 12 Jan 1893) (PPR). |
| 1901 | 1 Shaftesbury Avenue, St George (39), living with his wife Sarah A. (34), and children Prudence (15), Charles (12), William Henry (11), Henry Arthur (8), Albert (4) and Herbert (1), all born in Bristol (01C). |
| 1911 | Earthenware potter, married, patient in the Workhouse and Infirmary, Southmead, Westbury-on-Trym (50) (11C). |
WHITE Daniel
See the Potteries List section for the Baptist Mills Pottery.
It is assumed that Daniel White was in partnership with Joseph White II and James White I at the Baptist Mills Pottery.
Born c1816 in Bristol (51C).
| 1837 & 39 | Potter, Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1841 | Pipe maker, Wade Street, St Philip’s parish (25), living with his wife Ann (20) and children (41C). |
| 1842 | 3 Apr. Wade Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1846 | 8 Aug. Bankrupts from Friday’s Gazette – Daniel White, Bristol, potter, 11 August, 7 September, at Bristol (Staffordshire Advertiser – information from Rodney Hampson). |
| 1851 | Potter master employing 6 men, 2 boys and 3 girls, 4 Prospect Place, Millpond Street, St Philip’s parish (35), living with his wife Ann (33) born in Bristol and children (51C). |
| Children: Wife Ann Ann (aged 3 wks), bapt 23 Jul 1837 (PPR), Daniel (aged 3 wks), bapt 14 Apr 1839 (PPR), Harriet (aged 1 mth), bapt 3 Apr 1842 (PPR), Susan, born c1846 in Bristol (51C) |
WHITE Emma
Born c1830 in Bristol, the wife of Henry White (51C, 61C).
| 1861 | Potter’s assistant, widow, Henry Row, St Philip’s parish (31), living with her children Henry (9) and Francis (5), both born in Bristol (61C). |
WHITE Frank I
Born c1872 in Bristol, the father of Reginald White (11C).
| 1901 | Tailor’s assistant, 8 York Place, Clifton (29), living with his wife Edith (29) and children Reginald (4) and Leonard (1) (01C). |
| 1911 | Flint burner, earthenware pottery, 6 Tyndale Avenue, Fishponds (39), living with his wife Edith (39), born in Clutton, Somerset, and children Reginald (15), Cahrles (13), Leonard (11), Edith (8) and Vera (5), all born in Bristol (11C). |
WHITE Frank II
Born c1877 in Bristol, the son of William Joseph Augustus Summers White, and the brother of Henry James White (81C, 91C, 01C).
| 1901 | Potter’s thrower, Hastings Road, Church Gresley, Derbyshire (23), living with his brother Henry James White (01C). |
| 1911 | Potter’s thrower, 83 Oxford Street, Church Gresley (33), living with his wife Harriet (31), born in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, and daughter Eva (7), born in Church Gresley (11C). |
WHITE Frederick James
See the Potteries List section for the Baptist Mills Pottery and the Fishponds Pottery.
Baptist Mills Pottery
The Pottery had previously been run by Joseph Augustus White, who died in 1875.
| 1875-90 | Frederick James White ran the Baptist Mills Pottery.
From 1875 to 1880 the Pottery traded as J.A. White. From 1881 to 1890 it traded as J. & J. White. |
The Pottery was advertised to let in October 1885, although it carried on operating under Frederick James White until it was acquired by the City Council in 1890 as part of the River Frome flood prevention scheme.
Fishponds Pottery
In 1885 Frederick James White advertised a redware pottery to let in Fishponds, Gloucestershire. It is not known how long he had been associated with that Pottery. In the 1891 census he was described as a potter of Rodford, Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, which was a short distance to the north-east of Fishponds. In 1889 F.J. White & Co. of the Pottery, Yate, advertised for a secondhand brick press.
Born c1839 in Stapleton, the son of Joseph White II and the brother of James White II and Joseph Augustus White.
| 1851 | Aged 12, living with his parents and siblings at 2 Lower Ashley Road, St Philip’s parish (51C). |
| 1861 | Partner with his brother William Daniel White in the business of pipe manufacturing and carriers (22), living with his brother at Brookland House, St Philip’s parish (61C). |
| Between 1861 and 1869 he emigrated to St John, New Brunswick, Canada, with his father Joseph White II and his brother James Alfred White. They took over the Courtney Bay Pottery at Crouchville. He returned to Bristol and carried on the Baptist Mills Pottery after the death of his brother Joseph Augustus White in 1875. | |
| 1877 | 5 Jan. During serious flooding, the pottery of Mr White, at the commencement of Mina Road, was inundated to a depth of several feet (Western Daily Press). |
| 1877 | 6 Apr. In the Equity from Teignmouth, clay, for the Baptist Mills Pottery (Western Daily Press). |
| 1881 | Potter, Stapleton Road, Stapleton (42), living with his wife Frances (43), born in Barnstaple, Devon, and children Francis (12), Charles (10), Ernest (8), William (6), all born in Canada, and Alfred (4), Frances (3) and Frederick (1), all born in St George, and Alice Neat (19), domestic servant (81C). |
| 1881-82 | J. & J. White, Millpond Street, Baptist Mills, stone and earthenware manufacturer, etc (WD). |
| 1882 | 18 Sep. ‘On Saturday afternoon, notice was received at the chief fire station, Bridewell Street, that a fire had broken out at Baptist Mills Pottery, the property of Messrs J. and J. White. The brigade from the Central Station attended, with a manual engine, and the police from St Philip’s station, and on arriving it was found that a part of the roof of the kiln house had been on fire. The fire, however, was extinguished by the workmen before the arrival of the brigade. Part of the roof of the kiln house was burnt, and one of the kilns was slightly damaged. The conflagration was caused by the overheating of the kiln on the ground floor. The building is insured with the Scottish National and Provincial Office’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1882 | 23 Nov. Severe flooding at Baptist Mills. ‘On Monday, at four p.m., the flood entered the pottery mill adjoining the bridge and stopped the work. It continued rising all night, and on Tuesday morning stood at a level of 5 feet 6 inches inside the mill … and about 12 or 13 feet above the ordinary level of the river [Frome]. The pottery mill was occupied by workmen on Thursday morning’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1883-90 | J. & J. White, Pottery, Millpond Street, Baptist Mills (WD). |
| 1884 | 5 Dec. The Bristol Sanitary Committee discussed the possibility of purchasing the Baptist Mills Pottery to alleviate flooding, but thought that it would be too expensive (Western Daily Press). |
| 1885 | 3 Oct. ‘To let, convenient redware pottery, Fishponds; good clay; low rent. Frederick White, Baptist Mills’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1888 | 15 Nov. Floods on the River Frome: ‘At the Baptist Mills end of Mina Road the water rose to the height of several feet, and some houses between Fox Lane and Millpond Street were flooded. At Messrs White’s pottery a mass of clay was washed away, and the works had to be stopped. The mill hatches were raised and the water wheel was thrown out of gear, and the action of Messrs White in this respect had an appreciable effect in facilitating the flow of water’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1889 | 28 Mar. Correspondence concerning the recent flood: ‘The important thing is to get control of the river at Baptist Mills by purchasing the pottery works at once, and prevent the floods to which the city is liable at any moment unless some steps dictated by common sense are taken by the city authorities without delay’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1889 | 29 Jun. ‘Wanted. Brick press, secondhand, must be in good condition and cheap. F.J. White & Co., Pottery, Yate (Western Daily Press). |
| 1889 | It was reported that the Froom Culvert Committee had entered into an arrangement for the purchase of White’s Pottery at Baptist Mills, in connection with their scheme for preventing the flooding of the river (Western Daily Press). |
| 1890 | 18 Apr. The Flood Committee charged with alleviating the River Frome floods and to undertake flood prevention work agreed to obtain possession of White’s Pottery (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1890 | 23 Dec. Conveyance of a house known as Porch House, Baptist Mills, between Frederick James White, Baptist Mills, potter, and Henry Huddlestone Howes, accountant, of the first part, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the second part for £400 (BRO 01789(12)). On 10 June 1879 this property had been described as ‘all that piece of land adjoining Baptist Mills Pottery, and the buildings thereon, formerly known as Portch House, but now used as a storehouse’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1891 | 3 Feb. At a meeting of the Floods Committee it was agreed to remove White’s Pottery and straighten the course of the River Frome (Western Daily Press). The pottery was being demolished during February and March 1891 when various advertisements appear from the demolition contractors selling off secondhand tiles, paving, timber, 16 very large granite stones, etc. (Western Daily Press). |
| 1891 | Potter, Rodford, Westerleigh, Gloucestershire (52), living with his wife Frances (50), and children (91C). |
| 1893 | He left Bristol and established a business in Denver, Colorado. This was a small business for making fine stoneware, but a depression set in just about the time he arrived in Denver, and for some years the family experienced financial difficulties (Collard, E. 1967. Nineteenth-century pottery and porcelain in Canada. Montreal: McGill University Press, 425, footnote 37). |
| 1930 | 6 Oct. ‘Deaths … On October 3, at Muswell Hill, N10, after a short illness, William Allan White, aged 56, and on June 16, 1929, at Denver, Colorado, Alfred Northcote White, aged 53, sons of the late F.J. White of Baptist Mills Pottery, and brothers of C.J. White, 16 Surrey Road, Bristol’ (Western Daily Press). |
WHITE George I
Born c1806 in Bristol (41C).
| 1841 | Thomas Street, St Thomas’s parish (35), living with his wife Mary (36), born in Bristol and children (41C). |
| Children: George, c1827 in Bristol (41C), Thomas, born c1832 in Bristol (41C), Mary, born c1836 in Bristol (41C), Elizabeth, born c1840 in Bristol (41C) |
WHITE George II
Born c1828 in Bristol (51C).
| 1847 | 20 Dec. Colston Street, the son of Robert White, a hawker, he married Caroline Edwards of Colston Street, the daughter of Samuel Edwards, a cordwainer (JBPR). |
| 1851 | 3 Harris Yard, Temple parish (23), living with his wife Caroline (27) born in Bristol and children and lodgers Joseph —- (surname illegible) (16), a labourer in pottery and George Cole (17) a labourer in pottery, both born in Bristol (51C). |
| Children: Caroline, born c1848 in Bristol (51C), Henrietta (aged 11 mths), born c1850 in Bristol (51C) |
WHITE George Augustus
Born c1850 in St Paul’s parish, the son of James White II (71C).
| 1850 | 8 Dec. Baptised in Bristol (Ancestry website). |
| 1871 | Master potter, Waterloo Place, York Road, St James and St Paul parish (20), living with his mother, Ann White, the widow of James White II (71C). |
| 1881 | Contractor’s clerk, New Passage Road, Redwick, Henbury, Gloucestershire (30), living with his wife Sarah (25), born in Chepstow, Monmouthsire, and children Annie Margaret (1), born in Almondsbury and James Arthur (3 mths), born in Redwick (81C). |
| 1885 | 12 Oct. ‘Died October 8 at Redwick, New Passage, in his 35th year, George Augustus, only son of the late James White, jun., of Baptist Mills Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
WHITE Grace
Born c1894 in Gloucester (11C).
| 1911 | Gilder pottery, 33 Dunkirk Road, Fishponds (17) (11C). |
WHITE Henry
Born 1822 in Bristol, the son of Joseph White I, the brother of Joseph White II and William White I, and the husband of Emma White (41C, 61C).
| 1822 | 7 Apr. Baptised the son of Joseph and Charlotte White, potter, Redcross Street (PPR). |
| 1841 | Asher Lane, Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (19), living with his parents Joseph and Charlotte White, a potter (41C). |
| 1851 | 20 Water Street, The Weir, St Paul’s parish (29), living with his wife Emma (21), born in Bristol (51C). |
| 1861 | His wife was a widow and a potter’s assistant, living at Henry Row, St Philip’s, with her children Henry (9) and Francis (5), both born in Bristol (61C). |
WHITE Henry James
Born c1869 in St Philip’s parish, the son of William Joseph Augustus Summers White, and the brother of Frank White II (91C, 01C).
| 1891 | Potter’s thrower, 4 Summers Terrace, St James and St Paul parish (22), living with his widowed mother and siblings (91C). |
| 1901 | Potter’s thrower, Hastings Road, Church Gresley, Derbyshire (32), living with his wife Clara (30), born in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, and brother Frank White (01C). |
| 1911 | Potter’s thrower, 62 Oxford Street, Church Gresley (42), living with his wife Clara (40) (11C). |
WHITE James I
See the Potteries List section for the Redcross Street Pottery and the Baptist Mills Pottery.
For details see Joseph White II.
Born c1808 in Temple parish, possibly the son of Joseph White I and the father of James White II (41C).
| 1829-38 | J. (jnr)/Joseph and James White, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, potters for yellow ware (MD). |
| 1830 | 30 May. St Philip’s parish on the baptism of his daughter Mary Ann. Wife Sophia (PPR). |
| 1837 | Potter, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1837-43 | Possibly the James White living at 10 Great Ann Street, St Philip’s parish (MD). |
| 1839 | 2 Mar. James White of Baptist Mills, potter, leased 5 messuages with a room used as a chapel and 2 buildings called the Meeting House and the Charcoal House, a warehouse and a building used as a wash house (BRO 01788(3)). |
| 1839 | J & J White, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, yellow ware and black tea-pot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1840 | White and Doubting, Redcross Street, yellow ware and black tea-pot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1840 | 20 May. James White borrowed £300 from Elizabeth Tew of Hillgrove Street, Bristol and in consideration of the loan he sold the property he had leased in 1839 (BRO 01788(8a)). |
| 1840 | 9 Jun. James White of St Philip’s parish, earthenware manufacturer, paid William Salmon, gentleman, £375 for all that plot of ground in Baptist Mills extending in front against the north-east side 78 feet and on the north-west side 54 feet and on the south-east side 43 feet, bounded on the north-east and south-east by a stone wall and on the north-west by other property belonging to James White. Also all those 7 houses called Henry Row together with outbuildings erected on the same plot (BRO 01788(10). |
| 1840-41 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and teapot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1841 | Potter, Millpond Street, St Philip’s parish (30), living with his wife Sophia (30) and son James (12) and servants Emma Saunders (15) and Elizabeth Carroll (15) (41C). |
| 1842-46 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham teapots, stone jug and gold lustre ware manufacturers (MD). |
| 1842 | 29 Sep. A conveyance of property in Baptist Mills. For details see Joseph White II. |
| 1844 | James White purchased land at Baptist Mills for £1,200 from George Frederick Peters and others (BRO 01788(15)). |
| 1845 | Rich’s Buildings, Joseph White (owner James White) House & Pottery £16 (Consolidated Rates). |
| 1846-51 | Rich’s Buildings, William White (owner James White) House & Pottery £26 [noted as void and owned by James York in 1852] (Consolidated Rates) |
| 1846 | Potter, Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1846 | 24 Jun. Conveyed to James White, potter, for £25, a piece of waste land containing 36 perches and all those ruinous buildings standing on part of the land occupied by the Bristol Brass and Copper Company at Baptist Mills. Bounded on the north by the River Frome, on the south and east by a brook and on the west by cottages and land belonging to Joseph White, the younger (BRO 01789(3). |
| 1847-52 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham tea pot, stone jug and tobacco pipe manufacturers (MD). |
| 1851 | Potter master employing 95 persons, Frome Villa, Lower Ashley Road, St Philip’s parish (43), living with his wife Sophia (43) born in Frampton [-on-Severn], Gloucestershire and servants Eliza Skidmore (20) born in St Philip’s parish and William Owen (21) born in Frampton, Gloucestershire (51C). |
| 1851 | 18 Jul. Lease of land near Prospect Place, Baptist Mills from Mr James White to Mr Thomas Shackell. Shackell owned nos. 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Prospect Place which lay on the south side of the millpond. White agreed to grant Shackell the south bank of the millpond lying opposite the houses (BRO 01789(5)). |
| 1851 | 12 Dec. Whereas James White is entitled to a mill, messuages and land, and mill tail, and Joseph White is entitled to land and the factory building, James conveys to Joseph a strip of land in exchange for Joseph making a culvert under his factory for drainage purposes and the culvert is granted to James (BRO 01789(6). |
| 1852 | Potter, Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1853-60 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham tea pot, stone jug and earthenware manufacturers (MD). |
| 1881 | Retired potter, Norwood, South Road, Westbury-on-Trym (73), living with his wife Amelia S. (62), born in Combe Down, Somerset, and Harriet Escott (41), ladies help, and Hester Gingell (28), general servant (81C). |
| 1882 | 3 Dec. A gentleman, he died at Norwood, South Road, Lower Redland Road. His will was proved by his wife Amelia Summerland White. Estate valued at £1,022.8s.2d (BRO 01789(11); PRO National Probate Calendar (Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966). |
WHITE James II
See the Potteries List section for the Baptist Mills Pottery.
For further details, see Joseph Augustus White.
Born c1828 in St Philip’s parish, the son of James White I, and the father of George A. White (41C, 61C, 71C).
| 1841 | Millpond Street, St Philip’s parish (12), living with his parents (41C). |
| 1851 | Clerk, 3 Jubilee Place, St Barnabus parish (23), living with his wife Ann (20), born in Henbury, Gloucestershire, and son George (4 mths), born in St James’s parish, and Jane Cotterill (23), servant (51C). |
| 1852 | Potter, Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1859 | Frome Villa, Lower Ashley Road (HD). |
| 1861-69 | J. & J. White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham tea pot, stone jug and earthenware manufactory (MD). |
| 1861 | White Bros, Phoenix Pottery, Millpond Street, Baptist Mills, refined tobacco pipe and terra cotta manufacturers (KD). James and Joseph Augustus White, Millpond Street, Baptist Mills, potters (KD). |
| 1861 | 11 May. ‘To merchants, tobacconists, grocers, etc. White Brothers (late Reynolds), manufacturers of the purified clay tobacco pipes, both common and fancy, in great variety; plain, meerschaum washed, white enamelled, and stained amber washed pipes. Packed in boxes of 1 gross and upwards, for home trade or shipment. Phoenix Pottery, Bristol. The original manufactory of the purified clay pipes. Also manufacturers of terra cotta ware: vases, brackets, flower pots, and ornaments for greenhouses and conservatories, of chaste designs and varieties’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1861 | Potter, Frome Villa, St Philip’s parish (33), living with his wife Ann (30) born in Redwick, Gloucestershire and daughter Fanny (8) born in Bristol (61C). |
| 1866 | 23 Nov. James White, the younger, potter, died at Frome Villa, Ashley Road. His will was proved on 22 Feb 1867 on the oath of William Harris, a farmer of Henbury, Gloucestershire, one of the executors. Personal effects were valued at under £2,000 (BRO 01789(11); PRO National Probate Calendar (Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966). (Although James White II was apparently still listed in the Directories as working with his brother until 1869). |
| 1871 | His wife was a widow (71C). |
| 1890 | 23 Jan. The sale by Mrs Ann White, of Frome Villa, Lower Ashley Road, the widow of James White II, and her children, George Augustus White and Fanny Sophia White (now Moxley), for £4,600 to the Mayor and Aldermen of Bristol: All that mill used as a grist mill and afterwards by the Bristol Brass and Copper Company for many years past known as the Baptist Mills and the yard and buildings thereto belonging; Land adjoining the public road and millstream; Building with yard, furnace, pottery and 4 cottages and gardens adjoining; 2 water wheels, the first motions of the machinery and the 3 glaze mills belonging to the said mill and pottery, also the smiths shop and outbuildings adjoining; The weir across the River Frome; The bed of the mill stream from the weir to the said mill and the strip of land on the north side of the mill stream as marked by the boundary stones inscribed BBC; A small piece of land eastwards of the weir and on the north of the Frome; The other strips of land called the mill tails and their banks extending from the mill to Lower Ashley Road and from there to the River Frome (BRO 01789(11)). |
WHITE James III
Born c1873 in Bristol (91C).
| 1891 | Boarding at 33 Newfoundland Street, St Paul’s parish (18) (91C). |
WHITE Joseph I
See the Potteries List section for the Redcross Street Pottery and the Baptist Mills Pottery.
Redcross Street Pottery
It is not known when this Pottery was established. It seems to have been started by Joseph White I in about 1823, although trade directories show him as a tobacco pipe manufacturer and the proprietor of China and Staffordshire warehouses.
| c1823-29 | Joseph White I probably ran the Redcross Street Pottery. |
By 1829 the Pottery was being run by his son, Joseph White II, and James White I, although it seems likely that Joseph White I retained a financial interest in the business.
Baptist Mills Pottery
Although the Baptist Mills Pottery was being run by his son, Joseph White II, and then James White I from 1840 to 1860, Joseph White I was obviously associated with the business. In 1851 he was recorded as a retired master potter, living in Prospect Place, Millpond Street, which adjoined the Baptist Mills Pottery.
Born c1778 in Bristol, the father of Henry White, Joseph White II, William White I and, possibly, James White I (51C).
| 1813-7 | Pipe maker, New Street, St Philip’s parish (MD, ED). |
| 1822 | 7 Apr. Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1823 | 13 Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street. Proprietor: John Rich; Occupier: Joseph White, Pottery, £16 (BRO 04248). |
| 1829 | 27 Dec. St Philip’s parish (JaPR). |
| 1829-45 | Tobacco pipe manufacturer with China and Staffordshire warehouses, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street (MD). |
| 1832 & 34 | House, New Street, St Philip’s parish (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1833 | Rich’s Buildings: Joseph White, dwellinghouse and pottery £10 (BRO EP/A/47; St Philip’s – Church Rates). |
| 1835 | Sun insurance policy no. 1182528, midsummer 1834 to midsummer 1835: Joseph White of Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, Bristol, tobacco pipe manufacturer. ‘On a House and outhouse communicating in tenure of a Baker, no sea biscuits but an oven therein £150; Two Tenements behind £75 on each the above in tenure of James George and his undertenants, situate in New Street, Bristol, and no hazardous Trade carried on in the said two Tenements £150; House and Outhouses all adjoining in Wade Street near (called the Rising Sun) in tenure of Alexander, victualler £200 ..’ (BRO 37165(1/2)). |
| 1840 | 10 Mar. Noted as a potter when his daughter, Elizabeth, married James Belsten, wheelwright (PaPR). |
| 1841 | Potter, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1841 | Asher Lane, Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (60), living with his wife Charlotte (60) born in Bristol and children (41C). |
| 1844 | 2 Apr. Noted as a potter when his daughter, Sarah, married John Foley, a smith (PaPR). |
| 1845 | Rich’s Buildings, Joseph White (owner James White) House & Pottery £16 (Consolidated Rates). |
| 1851 | Potter, retired master, 3 Prospect Place, Millpond Street, St Philip’s parish (73), living with his wife Sarah (69) (51C). |
| 1852 | Potter, Prospect Place, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1854 | 11 May. Codicil to the will of Joseph White, gentleman, of Baptist Mills … I give all my plant, utensils and implements used in the Trade of a Potter which shall be in or upon the Pottery in Redcross Street … let by me to John Ellis and now in his occupation unto my sons Joseph White the younger and James White equally between them share and share alike … (BRO Will 1856/93). |
| Children: Elizabeth, married 2 Apr 1844 (JaPR); William (aged 4 yrs), bapt 7 Apr 1822 (PPR); Charlotte (aged 2 yrs), bapt 7 Apr 1822 (PPR); Henry (aged 1 mth), bapt 7 Apr 1822 (PPR); Sarah, born 19 Jul 1824, bapt 27 Dec 1829 (JaPR) |
WHITE Joseph II
See the Potteries List section for the Redcross Street Pottery and the Baptist Mills Pottery.
Redcross Street Pottery
The Pottery had probably been established by Joseph White I in about 1823.
| 1829-40 | Joseph White II and James White I ran the Redcross Street Pottery.
In 1840 they seem to have been in partnership with someone called Doubting, the firm trading as White & Doubting. It is assumed that Joseph White I retained a financial interest in the Pottery during this period. |
The Pottery was taken over by William White, the brother of Joseph White II.
Baptist Mills Pottery
This Pottery was established by Joseph White II and James White I after their move from the Redcross Street Pottery. It is assumed that Joseph White I had a financial interest in this Pottery
| 1840-60 | Joseph White II and James White I ran the Baptist Mills Pottery. |
The Pottery was taken over by their sons, Joseph Augustus White and James White II, Joseph White II having retired to Devon by 1861 and James White I having moved to Canada between 1861 and 1869.
Born c1801 in St Philip’s parish, the son of Joseph White I, brother of Henry White and William White and father of Joseph Augustus White, Frederick James White and James White II (51C, PPR).
| 1814 | 26 Aug. He was apprenticed to J.D. Pountney, to be educated as a turner (A). |
| 1826 | 21 May. St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1829 | 13 Sep. St Paul’s (PPR). |
| 1829-38 | J. (jnr)/Joseph and James White, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, potters for yellow ware (MD). |
| 1830 | Potter, Pottery, Redcross Street, St Paul’s (P). |
| 1830-38 | J. White was exporting earthenware to Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Jersey, Guernsey, Jamaica and Barbados (PR-EXP). |
| 1831 | 22 May. St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1833 & 38 | Stapleton (PPR). |
| 1835 | Potter, New Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1837 | Potter, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1839 | J & J White, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, yellow ware and black tea-pot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1840 | White and Doubting, Redcross Street, yellow ware and black tea-pot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1840-41 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and teapot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1841 & 45 | Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1841 | Prospect Place, St Philip’s parish (41), living with his wife Elizabeth (40), not born in Bristol and children (41C). |
| 1842-46 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham teapots, stone jug and gold lustre ware manufacturers (MD). |
| 1842 | 29 Sep. A conveyance to Joseph White, the younger, and James White of Bristol, potters, of a mill formerly used as a grist mill and afterwards by the Bristol Brass and Copper Company together with the water wheel and machinery and the yard, stable and premises adjoining and the mill stream, the mill tail, all houses and outhouses, buildings, sluices, floodgates, sewers, etc., for 14 years at £60 per annum (BRO 01788(12). |
| 1842-67 | J & J White were exporting earthenware to Dublin, Jersey, Guernsey, Melbourne, Geelong and New York (PB-EXP). |
| 1845 | Rich’s Buildings, Joseph White (owner James White) House & Pottery £16 (Consolidated Rates). |
| 1845 | 1 Oct. The conveyance to Joseph White the younger, potter, for £600, of 3 void cottages adjoining the mills called Baptist Mills with the strip of land behind the same and the blacksmiths shops thereon. Also all that piece of land adjoining and extending to Ashley Road, all the premises are bounded on the east by the mills and mill tail, on the north partly by the River Frome and a public road, on the west by a piece of ground belonging to James White and partly by the River Frome and on the south by Ashley Road – lately used as a skinners yard and parchment manufactory (BRO 01789(2)). |
| 1847 | Potter, Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1847 | 30 Jun. Noted as a potter when his son Joseph (21) of Baptist Mills, married Catherine Brewer (HTPR). |
| 1847-52 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham tea pot, stone jug and tobacco pipe manufacturers (MD). |
| 1850 | 24 Aug. The mortgage of land, messuage and premises at Baptist Mills, from Joseph White the younger, to John Kerle Haberfield and R.J.P. Young (BRO 01789(4)). |
| 1851 | Potter master employing 95 persons, 2 Lower Ashley Road, St Philip’s parish (50), living with his wife Elizabeth (50) born in Goodleigh, Devon and children. Servant, Hester Painter (16) (51C). |
| 1851 | 12 Dec. Whereas James White is entitled to a mill, messuages and land, and mill tail, and Joseph White is entitled to land and the factory building, James conveys to Joseph a strip of land in exchange for Joseph making a culvert under his factory for drainage purposes and the culvert is granted to James (BRO 01789(6). |
| 1852 | Potter, Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1853-60 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham tea pot, stone jug and earthenware manufacturers (MD). |
| 1854 | 14 Oct. ‘James Hobbs was charged with throwing stones and breaking three panes of glass at Mr White’s pottery, Baptist Mills. A witness named George Thomas deposed to having seen the prisoner deliberately throw three stones, each of which broke a pane of glass, and Mr White’s foreman stated that some scores of panes had been broken in a similar way by the prisoner and his companions. Fined in the amount of damage and costs, or seven days imprisonment’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1856 | 27 Sep. ‘To be let, at Baptist Mills, premises comprising large yard, workshops and sheds, suitable for any kind of manufacturing business. For particulars apply to Messrs White, Baptist Mills Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1861 | Retired potter, Goodleigh Road, Barnstaple, Joseph White (61), born in Bristol, living with his wife Elizabeth (61), born in Goodleigh, Devon, and children James (19) and Corrinna (15) (61C). |
| 1862 | 15 Aug. Mortgage from Joseph White to the Trustees of the Third Bristol Benefit Building Society of messuages at Baptist Mills upon an advance of £1000. Between Joseph White, formerly of Bristol, potter, now residing at Waytown, near Barnstaple, Devon, Edward Burgess, gent., William Daniel White of Bristol, railway carrier, etc … The property described as: All that land at Baptist Mills, and all that kiln and other buildings erected on the land now in the occupation of James White, the younger and Joseph Augustus White and used by them as an earthenware pottery; All that land and warehouse erected thereon now in the occupation of James White, the younger, and Joseph A. White; All that messuage with garden and cottage in the occupation of William Daniel White and all that yard with workshops, etc., commonly called the Brookland Works in the occupation of Gunters; All that tenement situated at Baptist Mills commonly called the Porch House in the occupation of James White the younger and Joseph A. White (BRO 01789(7)). |
He later emigrated to St John, New Brunswick, Canada, with his sons, James Alfred and Frederick James White. He took over the Courtney Bay Pottery at Crouchville. He died in 1870 in St John (Walker 1977, 1340).
‘Joseph White brought with him to the colonies a determination to transplant to the shore of Courtenay [sic] Bay in New Brunswick the typical products of a successful pottery in Bristol. Stoneware glazing as the Bristol potters carried it out as part of his plan. Conditions in the New World cramped and confined his efforts, but his was a conspicuous attempt to enlarge the scope of potting in a colony by introducing English standards. From Crouchville he advertised the same wares (at least in name) that he had made at home in England. Hutchinson’s New Brunswick Directory for 1867-68 tells us what he was trying to do: “Joseph White & Sons, Manufacturers of Earthen & Stoneware, Rockingham and Black Teapots, Common and Fancy Stone Pitchers of the latest English Designs, Stoneware Spirit Jugs, Milk Pans & Preserve Jars, Common and Ornamental Flower Pots, Vases, &c, Courtney Bay Pottery, St John, N.B. J. White & Sons (of the Potteries, Bristol, England) have lately commenced manufacturing a superior description of Stoneware, coated with a glaze, impervious to acids, to which they respectfully invite the attention of Wine and Spirit Merchants, Chemists and Importers”.
It was at the beginning of the 1860s that Joseph White and his family [wife, two daughters and sons James A. and Frederick J.] arrived in Saint John from Bristol. Trained as a potter in England, where the Whites had been working with clay for generations, Joseph White acquired a small pottery already in operation at nearby Crouchville … (now known as East Saint John). It is said that he very soon put into effect 2new ideas pertaining to pottery manufacture in conformity with the English practice of the day”.
Joseph died in 1870 and the pottery was carried on by his sons Frederick J. and James A. (and for a short while by William Daniel) until the end of the 1880s. Frederick was called back to England to assist his brother Joseph’s widow and young sons with the Bristol business. Later he went to the United States. James A. White was left alone. Fire devastated the plant in 1885 and bankruptcy closed it not many years after’.
A price list survives for the Courtenay Bay Pottery Company. James A. White was the manager, and their products included Rockingham, Bariole, Cane and Common Earthenware, Tobacco Pipes, &c. Priced goods included bread pans, milk pans, cream crocks, butter crocks, covered and preserve jars (Collard, E. 1967. Nineteenth-century pottery and porcelain in Canada. Montreal: McGill University Press, 253-256).
| Children: Charlotte Amelia, bapt 21 May 1826 (PPR), Joseph Augustus, bapt 13 Sep 1829 (PPR), Corinna Ann, bapt 22 May 1831 (PPR), William Daniel, bapt 14 Apr 1833 (PPR), Frederick James (aged 5 wks), bapt 30 Dec 1838 (PPR), James Alfred (aged 1 mth), bapt 26 Dec 1841 (PPR), Corrinna Ann (aged 1 mth), bapt 12 Oct 1845 (PPR) |
WHITE Joseph III
| 1805 | Then in Bovey Tracey, Devon, he was born in Temple parish, Bristol, and was apprenticed there to Ring and Carter, masters of the Water Lane Pottery. He served out his apprenticeship, but was married before the end of his time. He worked as a labourer in the pottery for three years, then he moved to Bovey Tracey and agreed with Mead and Lamble to serve them for a year. Then he went back to Temple parish for a year and then returned to Bovey Tracey (Settlement Examinations, Overseers of the Poor, Bovey Tracey parish – Devon Heritage Centre 2160 A/PO 753). |
WHITE Joseph Augustus
See the Potteries List section for the Baptist Mills Pottery.
The Pottery had previously been run by Joseph White II (with possibly William White as a partner), although both James White and William White had died in 1866.
| 1860-75 | Joseph Augustus White ran the Baptist Mills Pottery.
He ran it in partnership with James White II, the son of James White I, until James White II’s death in 1866. |
After his death in 1875 the Pottery was taken over by his brother, Frederick James White.
Born in 1830 in St Philip’s parish, the son of Joseph White II and the brother of Frederick James White and James White II (PPR, 51C).
| 1841 | Prospect Place, St Philip’s (11), living with his parents and siblings (41C). |
| 1845 | 25 Mar. Joseph Augustus White purchased from Joseph White the land which later became 22 and 23 Regent Street, St Philip’s (BRO 01789(10)). |
| 1847 | 30 Jun. Baptist Mills (21) the son of Joseph White, a potter, he married Catherine Brewer (21) of Pennywell Road, the daughter of Henry Brewer, an upholsterer (HTPR). |
| 1853 | 22 Nov. Joseph Augustus White purchased 15 Cornwallis Place, St Philip’s (BRO 01789(10)). |
| 1859 | 15 Cornwallis Place, Baptist Mills (HD). |
| 1860 | 4 Aug. ‘To earthenware dealers, etc., Messrs J. & J. White (late J.J. White & W. White) beg to thank their friends and the public generally for the liberal patronage bestowed upon them, and hope, by the superior manufacture of their goods and promptitude in the execution of all orders with which they may be favoured, to merit the large amount of patronage which has been awarded to the firm for upwards of half a century. Baptist Mills Pottery, August 3, 1860’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1861 | Master potter, employing 37 men, 17 women and 15 boys, Cornwallis Place, St Philip’s parish (31), living with his wife Catherine (30), born in Walcot, Bath, Somerset, and daughter Catherine (12), born in St Philip’s parish (61C). |
| 1861-69 | J. & J. White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham tea pot, stone jug and earthenware manufactory (MD). |
| 1861 | White Bros., Phoenix Pottery, Millpond Street, Baptist Mills, refined tobacco pipe and terra cotta manufacturers (KD). James and Joseph Augustus White, Millpond Street, Baptist Mills, potters (KD). |
| 1861 | 15 Cornwallis Place, Baptist Mills (KD). |
| 1865 | 26 Sep. Bristol Industrial Exhibition: ‘Messrs White … sent a capital collection, including some quaint looking little cups and saucers decorated with impish black figures, more like tadpoles than anything else’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1865 | 30 Oct. Bristol Industrial Exhibition. Class: Useful and Ornamental, £3 prize. Workmen in the employ of Messrs White Pottery, Baptist Mills – Rockingham stone ware (Bristol Times and Mirror). |
| 1870 | 20 Aug. ‘Married August 15, at Stapleton church, Mr Joseph A. White of the Baptist Mills Pottery, to Catherine, eldest daughter of Mr Thomas Bishop, of Stapleton Grove Villa’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1870 | 31 Dec. ‘Thursday evening last, at Mr Joseph White’s pottery, Baptist Mills, a large gathering of friends, with workmen and their wives, met to celebrate his marriage, and partook of a plentiful supply of beef, pudding, etc., after which a congratulatory address was read by a workman, and warmly responded to by Mr White. Subsequently appropriate speeches were given, interspersed with toasts, songs, and dancing, and other amusements concluded the evening’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1870-80 | J.A. White, Millpond Street, Baptist Mills, stone and earthenware manufacturer, etc. (MD). |
| 1871 | Potter (master, employing 32 men, 12 boys and 23 women), Claremont Villa, Claremont Place, St Philip’s parish (41), living with his wife Catherine (41) and Sarah Holley (22), general servant (71C). |
| 1872 | 6 Apr. ‘On Thursday morning a fire was found to be raging on the premises of Messrs White and Co’s pottery, Wheel Lane, Baptist Mills, by P.S. 8. The officer immediately roused up the neighbours, who managed to rescue the tools and patterns from the building. Information was sent to the different Fire Offices, but on the arrival of the reels it was found that the building in which the fire originated was completely gutted and the roof fell in. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the careless snuffing of a candle by one of the workmen. The damage is estimated at between five and six hundred pounds. The amount is fully covered by insurance in the Phoenix and Imperial Fire offices’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1872 | 2 Sep. A payment of £100 by Joseph A. White to Thomas Bishop [his father-in-law] of Stapleton Road, commercial traveller, for the purchase of Porch House, Baptist Mills (BRO 01789(9)). |
| 1873 | 4 Jul. ‘Wanted. Two steady placers and one who can dip. Constant employment. Baptist Mills Pottery’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1875 | 6 Jul. Joseph Augustus White made his will naming Frederick James White and Catherine White as executors (BRO 01789(10)). |
| 1875 | 15 Nov. During severe floods, the Baptist Mills Pottery and tanyards, brickfields, etc. in the neighbourhood of Mina Road were all flooded to a depth of from 4 to 5 feet (Western Daily Press). |
| 1875 | 12 Nov. Joseph Augustus White died. His will was proved on 22 December 1875 by his brother Frederick James White of Bishopston and Catherine White, his widow, and he was described as a potter, late of Baptist Mills and 2 Frenchay Villas in the parish of St George. His effects were valued at under £4,000 (BRO 01789(10); PRO National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966). |
| (Despite his death, he was still named in directories as operating the Pottery until 1880). | |
| 1879 | 12 May. Mortgage of property. Joseph Augustus White had died owing £1289.3s.2d to Stuckey’s Bank. The bank was granted the following properties: 15 Cornwallis Place, St Philip’s; 22 and 23 Regent Street, St Philip’s; 2 houses in Millpond Street; Porch House, Baptist Mills; 6 houses in Baptist Mills. The agreement was made between Frederick James White (executor of the will of J.A. White) late of St John, New Brunswick, but now of Baptist Mills Pottery, and Catherine White, widow, of 4 Frenchay Villas, Stapleton Road … and Stuckey’s Bank (BRO 01789(10)). |
WHITE Reginald
Born c1896 in Bristol, the son of Frank White I (11C).
| 1911 | Glost saggar dresser, 6 Tyndale Avenue, Fishponds (15), living with his parents and siblings (11C). |