See the Potteries List section for the Redcliff Back Pottery 1 and the Castle Green Pottery.
Redcliff Back Pottery 1
| 1766-77 | Thomas Frank II ran the Redcliff Back Pottery 1 with his father, Richard Frank. |
By 1778 Thomas Frank II was described as a merchant rather than a potter.
Castle Green Pottery
| 1771-c81 | Thomas Frank II was in partnership with Richard Champion and others in the Castle Green Pottery. |
It is not known how long the partnership lasted, but the Castle Green Pottery closed in 1781.
Born 8 Nov 1738, the son of Richard and Mary Frank, gallypotmaker (QR).
| 1764 | 18 Jul. He became a free merchant as he was the son of Richard Frank, potter (F). |
| 1770 | 9 Apr. He was in partnership with his father, Richard Frank, at the Redcliff Back Pottery 1 (Q). |
| 1771 | He was one of the original investors in William Cookworthy’s Pottery in Castle Green (Selleck 1978, 65). |
| 1771 | 29 Aug. It was probably Thomas Frank II (the ‘Mr Frank, potter on Redcliff-back’) whose daughter, Polly, married Robert Ring, cooper, of Thomas Street (BG). |
| 1770 | 21 Mar. He imported ‘300 Stone Pots, 300 Stone Bottles’ from Rotterdam (PB-IMP). |
| 1775 | 2 Mar. He imported ‘200 Stone Bottles’ from Rotterdam (PB-IMP). |
| He later became a grocer in Castle Street (Pountney 1920, 160). | |
| 1778 | 9 Aug. Elizabeth Frank died, aged 35, the wife of Thomas Frank of Castle Green, merchant. She was buried on 14 Aug (PRO RG 6/310, Monthly Meeting of Bristol: Burials, 1743-1788). |