See the Potteries List section for the 131 Temple Street Pottery.
The Pottery had previously been run by Thomas Fletcher, who had died by March 1779. John Hope subsequently married Fletcher’s widow, Sarah.
| c1781-1811 | John Hope ran the 131 Temple Street Pottery. |
| 1812-22 | John Hope and John Bright I ran the 131 Temple Street Pottery, trading as Hope and Bright. |
John Hope died in 1822 and the partnership between John Hope and John Bright I was dissolved in December 1822. John Bright I then ran the Pottery alone.
| 1760 | 3 Jun. Noted as a potter living in a property on Redcliff Back (BB, BRO 01712(2)). |
| 1763-64 | Possibly the John Hope for whom John Harwell, potter, stood surety to keep an alehouse in St Mary Redcliffe parish (AKL). |
| 1766 | Possibly the John Hope for whom Thomas Taylor II, potter, stood surety of £5 to keep an alehouse in St Mary Redcliffe parish (AKL). |
| 1772 | 16 & 18 Jan. ‘Sunday died Mrs Hope, wife of Mr Hope, potter, on Redcliff Hill’ (BG, FFJ). |
| 1772 | 23 Jun. St James’s parish, potter, he was bondsman to a licence granted to William Stringer Vicary, mariner of St James’s to marry Mary Hope (possibly his daughter) of St James’s parish, spinster (M). |
| 1780 | 18 Dec. Temple parish, he was granted a licence to marry Sarah Fletcher, widow, of Temple parish at Temple church. Sarah Fletcher was presumably the widow of Thomas Fletcher, potter, and this was how John Hope acquired the 131 Temple Street Pottery (M). |
| 1780 | 19 Dec. He married Sarah Fletcher (Ancestry website). |
| 1783 | 7 May. Thomas Lawrence, Peregrine Bowen and Josiah Hill were the proposed purchasers of the lease of property on Redcliff Back, including ‘A tenemt Late in the Possessn of Jno Hope potter and now of Henry Phillips’ (PBk). |
| 1783 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street (BWMD). |
| 1785 | John Hope, stone potter, Temple Street (BBD). |
| 1786 | 2 Sep. ‘Monday died Mrs Hope, wife of Mr John Hope, potter, in Temple-street’ (BMBJ). |
| 1787 | John Hope, brown stone ware manufacturer, Temple Street (BWMD). |
| 1787 | 21 Oct. He married Martha Hooper (Ancestry website). |
| 1787 | 27 Oct. ‘Sunday last – was married at Temple church, Mr John Hope, potter, in Temple-street, to Miss Martha Hooper, of Bedminster’ (BMBJ). |
| 1790-91 | He was recorded as having a property with 11 windows and he employed one female servant (Temple-W). |
| 1792-97 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street. Residence: 8 Somerset Square (RD, MD). |
| 1797 | 25 Jan. John Hope, Temple Street – List of persons whose gouts lead into the Common Sewer between Temple and St Thomas parishes (Q). |
| 1800-01 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street. Residence: Somerset Square (MD). |
| 1802 | 27 Apr. ‘The Information of John Dodge of Pipe Lane, potter, and Thomas Aldridge of Temple Street, carpenter
The Informant John Dodge on his oath saith that last week some iron bars were stolen out of his Masters John Hope’s kilns in Temple Street in this city, that he hath seen the iron bars now produced and knows the same to be the property of Master John Hope and are of the value of one shilling and the Informant Thomas Aldridge on his oath saith that on the twenty second instant the man now in custody giving his name as Thomas Cronen came to this Informants shop and offered the iron bars now produced for sale’ (Q). |
| 1803 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street (MD). |
| 1804 | 18 Jul. When his apprentice, John Evans II, obtained his freedom it implies that John Hope was deceased (F). |
| 1804-05 | The window tax return for Temple parish records John Hope as having 11 windows, one dog and paying hair powder duty (Temple-W). |
| 1805-08 | John Hope, potter, Temple Street (MD). |
| 1806 | 22 Nov. ‘Sunday last (16th) was married at Temple Church, Captain Richard Hooper, of this port, to Miss S. Fletcher, daughter-in-law of Mr John Hope, patent water pipe and brown stone manufacturer, Temple Street’ (FFJ). |
| 1808-09 | John Hope possibly signs as a constable in the Watch Rates (Temple-Wa). |
| 1809 | 24 May. John Hope, Temple Street, patent pipe maker (Q). |
| 1809-11 | John Hope, stone ware and patent water pipe manufactory, 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1810-22 | Hope & Co., Hope & Bright and J. Bright exported stoneware (including garden pots and earthen pipes) to Guernsey, Jersey, Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Oporto, Grenada, St Vincent, Barbados, Jamaica and Quebec (PB-EXP). |
| 1811 | 24 May. John Hope of Temple Street, potter, on a house only in tenure of Mrs Barber. Sun Fire Policy 857671. (Blakeley 1978-79, 146).
24 May. John Hope of Temple Street. On his now dwelling house situate as aforesaid not exceeding £100 … contents therein … not exceeding £200. Pottery adjoining but not communicating a brick wall between not exceeding £400 (house in tenure of a baker £400). Sun Fire Policy 857672 (Blakeley 1978-79, 146). |
| 1812-19 | Hope & Bright, stoneware and patent water pipe manufactory, 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1819 | John Hope, stoneware potter. (Plans of Church Land belonging to the Parish of Temple made by J.W. Turnbull 1819-20, BRO Aa 65(2)). |
| 1820-21 | Hope & Bright, stoneware potters and patent water pipe manufactory, 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1822 | Sun Policy 996849 Michaelmas 1822-23. ‘Martha Hope of Langton Street, Bedminster, Gentlewoman – on her Household Goods, Wearing Apparel, Printed Books and Plate in her now dwelling house only situate aforesaid £200. House only at Bedminster aforesaid in tenure of John Hewlett undertaker no work done therein £300. Workshop behind near £50. House only in Temple Street … in tenure of John Bright, potter, timber & tiled £200. Pottery in one building adjoining the last above mentioned but not communicating therewith, a brick wall between £500. House only adjoining said Pottery but not communicating therewith a brick wall between in the tenure of Clark a baker. Oven included but no sea biscuits baked therein £200. House only at No.12 Stokes Croft, Bristol, in tenure of Abraham, private £300. All Stone, Brick and Tiled except as aforesaid’. |
| 1822 | 1 Jun. John Hope of Temple Street, potter, made his will, leaving to his wife Martha all his ‘personal estate, plate, property and effects of every sort and description absolutely’ including his ‘freehold messuage, dwelling house and premises in Bedminster’ and his ‘freehold messuage or dwellinghouse in the occupation of Charles Clarke, baker, situate in Temple Street (adjoining the messuage, or dwellinghouse, workshops and premises now in my own occupation and in the occupation of Messrs Hope and Bright)’. In the event of his wife’s death his property was to go to his brother Robert Hope, to whom he also left an annuity of £40. He left his freehold dwellinghouse in Stokes Croft to Richard Hooper and James Allen of Bristol, gentlemen, and William Fletcher ‘now in my employ’ in equal shares. The will was witnessed, amongst others, by the potter Joseph Hazard. The will was proved on 14 September 1822 (PRO Prob11/1661). |
| 1822-23 | Hope & Bright, original stoneware pottery and patent water pipe manufacturers, 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1823 | Temple Street (west side) Proprietor: Mrs Hope Dwellinghouse and stoneware shop and manufactory. Occupier: John Bright £52 (BRO 04248). |
| 1823 | 5 Apr. Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofor subsisting between John Hope and John Bright, of Temple Street, carrying on the trade of potters, stone-ware, and patent-water-pipe-manufacturers, under the firm of ‘Hope and Bright’ was dissolved and determined on and from the 31st day of December now last past … Signed Martha Hope and Richard Hooper (Executrix and Executor of the said John Hope) and John Bright.
Mrs Hope returns her sincere thanks for the favours received by her deceased Husband; and informs her Friends and the Public that the Business will be carried on in future, in all its branches, by his late Copartner, John Bright … (FFJ). |
| 1823 | 24 May. ‘Died (Monday 19th) … Mrs Hope, relict of Mr Hope, patent stone-pipe and brown-stone manufacturer, Temple-street’ (FFJ). |
| 1823 | 7 Jun. To be sold by auction ‘All the handsome household furniture, brackets clock, fine china, richly cut glass, superior table and bed linen, prints and other effects of Mrs Hope, deceased, at her late residence, no. 33 Langton Street, Cathay, Bristol. The household furniture comprises handsome mahogany four-post and other bedsteads, with furniture; exceedingly fine goose feather and milpuff beds; mattresses and excellent bedding; mahogany chests of drawers; basin-stands; bureau and bookcase; sideboard; dining, card, Pembroke, and dressing tables; sofa, with cases; mahogany and painted chairs; chimney, pier and swing looking glasses; Brussels, Kidderminster, and Venetian carpets; painted floor cloth, and a variety of culinary articles’ (FFJ). |
| 1823 | 3 Nov. Sun Policy 1009346. Richard Hooper and James Allen of the City of Bristol, Gents in Trust – On a House only in Temple Street … in tenure of John Bright, Potter, timber and tiled £300. Pottery in one building adjoining the aforesaid but not communicating therewith a brick wall between, brick and tiled £500. |
| Apprentice: With wife Elizabeth: John Evans II, 17 Oct 1791 (A, Ao) – 18 Jul 1804 (F) |
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| Rate and tax book entries: Property 1: [29 Sep 1760 – 25 Mar 1768 John Hope Redcliff Street and Backs/Pile Street (SMR – W, Wa, LS) 21 Dec 1771 – 21 Dec 1772 John Hope ½ year Redcliff Hill (SMR-LS) 25 Mar 1771 – 29 Sep 1771 John Hope void (SMR-L)Property 2: 1781 – 29 Sep 1812] John Hope Temple Street (Temple-W,LS,Pa,L,Wa,H) 1822-23] Messrs Hope & Bright Temple Street (Temple-H) |