Born c1812 in Temple parish (61C).
| 1836 | 4 Dec. Temple parish (PPR). |
| 1838 | 25 Feb. Temple parish (PPR). |
| 1838 | 10 Sep. Redware potter, St Philip’s Marsh (Ao). |
| 1840 | 18 Oct. Jacob Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1841 | Church Lane, St Philip’s parish (25), living with his wife Elizabeth (20) born in Bristol and children (41C). |
| 1842 | 13 Nov. Jacob Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1849 | 2 Dec. Church Lane, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1851 | 13 Church Lane, St Philip’s parish (39) living with his wife Elizabeth (34), a schoolmistress, and children (51C). |
| 1856 | 24 Aug. Jacob Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1861 | 7 Newmans Yard, St Philip’s parish (49) living with his wife Elizabeth (44) and children and his mother-in-law Eleanor Howell, widow, of Prior Stanton [Stanton Prior], Somerset (61C). |
| 1867 | 22 Jun. ‘Died, June 9, at Water Lane, Temple Street, aged 55, Mr Francis Hall Cole, upwards of 40 years, in the employ of Messrs Pountney, Bristol Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1874 | 29 Mar. Noted as a potter when his daughter Hannah (24) of 4 Jacob Street, married William Hinder (PPR). |
| Children: Thomas William (aged 3 wks), bapt 4 Dec 1836 (PPR), Francis Henry (aged 2 mths), bapt 25 Feb 1838 (PPR), Ellen Tudor (aged 3 wks), bapt 18 Oct 1840 (PPR), George (aged 3 wks), bapt 13 Nov 1842 (PPR), William, born c1846 in Bristol (51C), Hannah Maria (aged 3 wks), bapt 2 Dec 1849 (PPR), Elizabeth Martha Howell, born 31 Jul 1856, bapt 24 Aug 1856 (PPR) |