Born c1803, the son of Joseph Bright I (PPR).
| 1803 | 29 May. Baptised, the son of Joseph and Cecil Bright (PPR). |
| 1818 | ‘Joseph Bright junior’. 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). |
| 1827 | 10 Jun. St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1830 | Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1832 & 34 | Temple Street, Temple parish (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1835 | Temple Street (P). |
| 1837 | Temple Street (P). |
| 1837 | 20 Aug. Temple parish (PPR). |
| 1841 | Mary Bright (35) was living with her children Jane (15) and Esther (7), suggesting that Joseph Bright had died (41C). |
| 1849 | 20 Aug. Noted as a potter when his daughter Esther (21) of Spring Street, married Richard Chapman Barnett (27) a cordwainer (JBPR). |
| Children: Wife Mary Jane Louisa, bapt 10 June 1827 (PPR), Esther Mary Ann (aged 6½ yrs), bapt 20 Aug 1837 (PPR) |