The son of Joseph Lawrence of Bristol, brushmaker (A).
| 1769 | 6 Nov. He was apprenticed to William I and Mary Maynard, with £10 from Edward Colston, deceased (A, Ao). |
| 1780 | 2 Sep. He became a free potter (F, G). |
| 1784 | Potter, St Philip and Jacob out parish (P). |
| 1786/7 | Margaret, wife of William Lawrence of Milk Street, received £1 from Ann Thurston’s Charity for the Relief of Poor Women in Child Bed (BRO 04191). |
| 1790/1 | Margaret, wife of William Lawrence of Ellbroad Street, potter, received £1 from Ann Thurston’s Charity for the Relief of Poor Women in Child Bed (BRO 04191). |
| 1792 | 7 Jul. ‘we the Mayor Burgesses and Commonalty of the City of Bristol do owe and are justly indebted unto William Lawrence of the same City Potter and William Rice of the same City Painter (Stewards to a certain Club or Society of Persons in the Said City called the Bristol Union Society for the Support of the Members thereof in the time of Sickness) … in the Sum of Two hundred pounds …’ (BRO 04106(2)). |
| 1812 | Ellbroad Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1815 | 8 Apr. Possibly the Lawrence in the partnership dissolved of ‘Lawrence & Co. of Bristol, potters’ (FFJ). |
| 1830 | Potter, St Michael’s Hill, St Michael’s parish (P). |
| 1832 | St Michael’s Hill, St Michael’s parish (P). |
| 1832 | St Michel’s Hill, St Michael’s parish (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1835 | St Michael’s Hill, St Michael’s parish (P). |