The son of John and Ann Crinks of Crew’s Hole, labourer (BRO Will 1770 of Sarah Powell and BRO Will 1796 of William Crinks).
| 1782 | 17 May. A potmaker of St George, Gloucestershire, he was granted a licence to marry Sarah Jones of St George, at St George. Bondsman: William Hamblin, St Augustine’s parish, potmaker (M). |
| 1785 | 25 Mar. Charles, son of Samuel Crinks of Bread Street, potmaker, baptised (PPR). |
| 1787 | 17 Nov. He witnessed the apology given by John Howell, potter, for assaulting an officer of St Peter’s Hospital (BMBJ). |
| 1792 | Potmaker, John Street, St Philip’s (RD). |
| 1793-97 | Potmaker and mason for glass works, St Philip’s (MD). |
| 1798 | Potmaker and mason for glass works, Crew’s Hole (MD). |
| 1798 | 3 May. ‘Died last week at his house in Crewshole, Mr Samuel Crinks, many years a master potter and furnace builder at St Philip’s Glassworks, a man of integrity and uprightness, and much esteemed by all his aquaintances’ (BG). |
| 1800 | 27 Nov. He was described as a potter, late of Bristol, when his son Samuel, was apprenticed to J. Alden, a butcher (A). |
| Rate book entries: 21 Dec 1790-21 Dec 1791 Saml. Crinks, Three Crown Lane (St Philip’s-LS) 29 Sep 1796-29 Sep 1797 Saml. Crinks John Street (St Philip’s-Wa) 27 Sep 1801-29 Sep 1802 Widw. Crinks John Street (St Philip’s-Wa). |