COLE John I

See the Potteries List section for the St Philip’s Pottery 6.

1815-16

The St Philip’s Pottery 6 was operated by ‘Cole & Spokes’.

John Cole I was probably in partnership with John Spokes I, until Spokes established his own Pottery in 1816.

1817-21

John Cole I ran the St Philip’s Pottery 6, possibly in partnership with someone called ‘Campbell’, as a partnership between them was dissolved in 1821.

1825	John Cole I was in partnership with someone called ‘Pearce’ at the St Philip’s Pottery 6. (His partner was probably Colston Pearce).
1832-35	John Cole I ran the St Philip’s Pottery 6 alone.

He may have died in 1835, as by 1836 the Pottery was being run by his wife Frances Cole.

 

The husband of Frances Cole and the father of John Cole III and Thomas Homans Cole (A, Ao, PPR).

1798	29 Oct. Possibly the John Cole who married a Frances Inks in St Martin in the Fields church, Westminster, London. If so, then this might have been the John Cole born on 9 Jun 1776 in St Clement Danes church, London. Frances had been born in the Lying in Hospital in Holborn, London, on 22 Aug 1776, the daughter of Edward and Sarah Inks (information from Bruce Bennett).
1807	11 Nov. Great Gardens (Ao).
1815	25 Jul. Stone potter, Cheese Lane, St Philip’s parish (Ao).
1815-16	Cole & Spokes, brown stone potters, Avon Street, St Philip’s (MD, ED).
1816	13 Jan. The partnership of John Hilhouse Wilcox, Thomas Homans Cook and John Cole (t/a Wilcox, Cook and Company), stone ware potters and manufacturers of tobacco pipes carried on in Cheese Lane was dissolved on 29 December 1815 (FFJ).
1820	Brown stone potter, Great George Street, St Philip’s parish (MD).
1821	25 Feb. George Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR).
1821	Cole & Campbell of Bristol, redware potters, partnerships dissolved (FFJ).
1825	Coles & Pearce, brown ware potters, Avon Street (MD).
1825	24 Sep. For auction ‘Lot 5. A small and convenient stone and brown ware pottery, with a yard, two kilns, small dwelling house, and other suitable buildings, now in the occupation of Mr – Coles, as yearly tenant. These premises … have a frontage of 108 feet and are in depth on the northward side, 40 feet and on the southward side 54 feet’ (Bristol Mercury).
1828	22 Jul. St Philip’s parish (Ao).
1830	21 Jan. To be sold by auction: ‘Lot 2. A Small and Convenient Stone and Brown Ware Pottery, with a Yard, two Kilns, small Dwelling house, and other suitable buildings, now in the occupation of Mr John Coles, as yearly tenant … The Lots … are situate near the Bridge over the Feeder, at the bottom of Cheese Lane … and are within a short distance of the New Cattle Market’ (BG).
1832	31 Mar. ‘To be let. A small and convenient pottery, with a yard, house, and other suitable buildings and ground adjoining thereto. The above premises are situated at the bottom of Cheese Lane, St Philip and Jacob … in the occupation of Mr John Cole, as tenant’ (Bristol Mercury).
1832	31 Jul. Stone potter, Redcliff Hill (RPR).
1832-35	J. Cole exported stoneware to Guernsey and Jersey (PB-EXP).
1833	John Cole paid £2.8s.9d duty on his manufacture of stone bottles (from the ‘Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the  Management and Collection of the Excise Revenue [on] Stone Bottles and Sweets, London, 1834’).
1841	He had probably died as his wife was living alone at the Pottery (41C).
1842	17 Jan. Noted as a potter when his daughter Frances of Temple parish married Thomas Probert (TPR).
1846	22 Mar. Noted as a potter when his son George a baker of St Philip’s parish married Ann Llewellyn (PPR).
1846	26 Jun. Noted as a potter when his daughter Frances Ann of East Street, Bedminster married Charles Fowler (JBPR).
	Apprentices: With wife Frances William Elbury, 11 Nov 1807 (A, Ao) John Cole II, 25 Jul 1815 (A, Ao) William Bowden, 22 Jul 1828 (A, Ao)
	Children: Emily, born 9 Jul 1806, bapt 31 Jul 1830 (RPR), John II, born c1809 (51C), Thomas Homans (aged 1 mth), bapt 25 Feb 1821 (PPR), Frances, married 17 Jan 1842 (TPR), George, married 22 Mar 1846 (PPR), Frances Ann, married 26 Jun 1846 (JBPR)