See the Potteries List section for the St Philip’s Pottery 4 and 124 Temple Street Pottery.
St Philip’s Pottery 4
The Pottery had previously been run by George Cox.
| c1827-36 | Edward and Francis Melsom I, ran the St Philip’s Pottery 4, trading as Edward Melsom & Company. They may have been brothers. |
Edward and Francis Melsom I took over the 124 Temple Street Pottery in 1836 and the St Philip’s Pottery 4 then appears to have closed.
124 Temple Street Pottery
The Pottery had previously been run by John Milsom.
| 1823-25 | John Milsom and Edward Melsom ran the 124 Temple Street Pottery, trading as Milsom and Melsom. |
The Partnership between John Milsom and Edward Melsom was dissolved in November 1825. The Pottery was then run by John Milsom until it was purchased by Edward and Francis Melsom I in 1836.
| 1836-58 | Edward and Francis Melsom I ran the 124 Temple Street Pottery. |
Francis Melsom I died in 1858 and the Pottery was then run by Edward Melsom.
| 1858-61 | Edward Melsom ran the 124 Temple Street Pottery. |
The Pottery was taken over by Francis Melsom II, who was probably his nephew.
Born c1794 in Bristol, possibly the brother of Francis Melsom I (51C).
| 1818 | ‘Edw. Melsom’. He was one of eight journeymen potters who was convicted of entering into an unlawful agreement for ‘controlling and affecting Messrs. Wm. & Thos. Powell, being persons carrying on the manufacture trade or business of a potter, in the conduct or management thereof, & severally sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for one month’. The Bright goblet to commemorate this event was made on 4 Dec. 1818 (Bristol Museum Acc. No. 2225). Described as ‘Edward Milsom’ in the newspaper report of the case (BG). |
| 1823 | Survey & valuation of Temple parish: 124 Temple Street (west side), proprietor Mrs Clements, occupier Edward Melsome, dwelling house, stoneware shop and manufactory, annual value £24 (BRO Temple AJ2 & 04248). |
| 1823-26 | Milsom & Melsom, Temple Street (Temple-Wa). [After 1826 Messrs Milsoms] |
| 1823-26 | Milsom & Melsom, 124 Temple Street, stoneware potters and patent water pipe manufacturers (MD). |
| 1825 | 26 Nov. Partnerships dissolved ‘J. & E. Milsom of Bristol, brown stone potters’ (FFJ). |
| 1830 | Edward Melsom & Co., Avon Street, stoneware potters (MD). |
| 1830 | Edward ‘Milsom’, jnr, Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1831-34 | Edward and Francis Melsom, Avon Street, stoneware potters (MD). |
| 1832 | Edward ‘Milsom’, jnr, Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1832 | Edward ‘Milsom’ jnr, Temple Street, Temple parish (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1833 | Cheese Lane and Avon Street, E. Melsom, pottery £10; E. Melsom, dwellinghouse & kilns, void; E. Melsom, dwellinghouse, void (BRO EP/A/47). |
| 1833 | Edward Melsom paid £3.18s.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’). |
| 1835-36 | Edward & Francis Melsom, Avon Street, stone ware and patent water pipe manufacturers (MD). |
| 1835 | Edward Melsom, jnr, Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1836 | Pottery, 100 Temple Street, Redcliff Ward (WL). |
| 1836 | 21 Mar. Lease of premises in Temple Street vested in Lydia Clements. Indenture bearing the date 31 Dec 1834 made between Lydia Clements and Francis and Edward Melsom. Lydia Clements caused the messuage and premises to be put up for public auction on 15 Oct 1835 at which auction F. & E. Melsom were declared the purchasers at the sum of £410 of the messuage together with the potters kiln and other erections and buildings set up by Lydia Clements. Premises numbered 124 Temple Street, then in the tenure of John Melsom, stone potter, as tenant (P/St.T/D274). |
| 1836 | 22 Mar. Counterpart lease of a messuage and premises in Temple Street. The feoffees to Messrs Francis Melsom and Edward Melsom of the out parish of St Philip and Jacob, brown stone ware potters and co-partners in trade of the other part. Granted the messuage and tenement called by the name of the Mansion Place otherwise Foster’s Place in Temple Street, heretofore in the tenure of Ezekiel Longman and Thomas Whittuck, Esther Wells and John Melsom, brown stone ware potter, and now of the said Edward and Francis Melsom … Lives Francis Melsom now aged about 45 years, Edward Melsom now aged about 43 years. It extended from Temple Street on the east part to a garden ground now in the holding of Messrs Charles Price and Son on the west part (P/St.T/D.274). |
| 1836 | 22 Mar. No. 2 in Plan Book. Plan and elevation. Shows cone in back garden. Francis Melsom, age 45, Edward Melsom, age 43 (P/St.T/Ch/3/32). |
| 1836 | 27 Jun. Temple Street, Francis & Edward Melsom, brown stone potters, messuage formerly called the Mansion Place or Fosters Place in Temple Street, formerly in the tenure of John Milsom, brown stone ware potter (P/St.T/D.273/4). |
| 1837-59 | Edward & F. Melsom, 124 Temple Street, stoneware and patent water pipe manufacturers (previously of Avon Street) (MD). |
| 1837 | Edward Melsom, jnr, Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1837 | 26 May. E. Melsom exported 646 pieces of earthenware to Guernsey and Jersey (PB-EXP). |
| 1841 | Edward Melsom, jnr, Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1841 | Temple Street, Temple parish (45), living with his wife Sarah (45) born in Bristol (41C). |
| 1847-62 | E. & F. Melsom and E. Melsom were exporting stoneware, including stone bottles, to Jersey, Guernsey and Quebec (PB-EXP). |
| 1851 | Stoneware manufacturer, 124 Temple Street (57), living with his wife Sarah (55) (51C). |
| 1851 | Bristol Survey: Temple Street, E & F Melsom (owner & occupier) House & Pottery £30. |
| 1852 | Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1860 | 4 Oct. Conveyance of 124 Temple Street (No. 2 in Plan Book), a messuage and buildings in the rear used as a Stoneware Pottery and warehouses with court yard. Leases: Francis & Edward Melsom, lease dated 22 Mar 1836 for 99 years held on the life of Edward Melsom, occupier Edward Melsom (BRO P/St.T/D30). |
| 1860-62 | E. Melsom exported stoneware, including stoneware pipes, to Jersey and Quebec (PB-EXP). |
| 1860-62 | Edward Melsom, 124 Temple Street, white glazed and patent stone ware potter and patent water pipe manufacturer (MD). |
| 1861 | Stoneware manufacturer employing 9 men and 7 boys, 124 Temple Street (68), living with his wife Sarah (66) and Jane Rees (17) a house servant, born in Bristol (61C). |
| 1873 | 6 Feb. He died, aged 79, in Clifton. His will was proved on 26 Feb 1873 by his wife Sarah Melsom. He was described as a gentleman of 2 Ashley Terrace, Ashley Hill and left effects valued at under £2000 (Ancestry website). |