See the Potteries List section for the 124 Temple Street Pottery and the Redcliff Street Pottery 3.
124 Temple Street Pottery
The Pottery was previously run by John Duffett I.
| 1821-36 | John Milsom ran the 124 Temple Street Pottery. |
John Milsom then moved his business to the Redcliff Street Pottery 3. The 124 Temple Street Pottery was then taken over by Edward and Francis Melsom.
Redcliff Street Pottery 3
| 1836-41 | John Milsom ran the Redcliff Street Pottery 3. |
He probably died in July 1841 and the Pottery then closed.
The son of Samuel Milsom of Bristol, victualler, and the father of George and Samuel John Milsom (A, BPR, TPR).
| 1791 | 3 Apr. Possibly the John Milsom baptised at St George, the son of Samuel and Christian Milsom (Ancestry website), |
| 1805 | 25 Jan. He was apprenticed to James I and Hannah (or Margaret?) Alsop with £15 (A, Ao). |
| 1807 | 12 May. He was discharged from his apprenticeship (A). |
| 1812 | 14 Oct. He obtained his freedom (F). |
| 1812 | Bread Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1818 | ‘John Milsom’. 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). |
| 1815-29 | Temple parish (PaPR, TPR, PPR). |
| 1822 | John Milsom, 124 Temple Street, stoneware potter (MD). |
| 1823-26 | Milsom & Melsom, 124 Temple Street, stoneware potters and patent water pipe manufacturers (MD). |
| 1823 | Survey and Valuation of Temple parish. 124 Temple Street, Proprietor: Mrs Clements, Occupier: Edward Melsom, dwelling house stoneware shop and manufactory (BRO 04248, BRO Temple AJ2). |
| 1825 | 26 Nov. Partnerships dissolved ‘J & E Milsom of Bristol, brown stone potters’ (FFJ) |
| 1827-35 | John Milsom, 124 Temple Street, stoneware potter and patent water pipe manufacturer (MD). |
| 1830 | Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1832 | Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1832 | Temple Street, Temple parish (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1833 | John ‘Melsom’ paid £1.15s.0d 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’). |
| 1836-40 | John Milsom, 56 Redcliff Street, stone ware potter and patent water pipe manufacturer (MD). |
| 1837 | ‘Thomas Milsom’, possibly a mistake for John Milsom, Temple Street, Temple parish (P). |
| 1839 | 1 Aug. Noted as a potter when his son Samuel John Milsom, a potter, of King Street married Sophia Fowler (JBPR). |
| 1841 | 25 Jul. Probably the John Milsom who was buried at Temple church (TPR). |
| 1843 | Noted as a potter when his daughter Matilda Christiana Milsom married John Caple, a wheelwright (MLPBT). |
| 1843 | 5 Jun. Noted as a potter when his daughter Emma, a tailoress of Rosemary Street, married John Hall (PaPR). |
| 1843 | 2 Jul. Noted as a potter when his son George Milsom, a potter, of Boot Lane, Bedminster, married Sarah Norman (JBPR). |
| 1852 | Noted as a potter when his son John Milsom (24) a labourer of Boot Lane, Bedminster, married Ann Reed (JBPR). |
| Rate book entries: 1822-23 John Milsom & Co. Temple Street (Temple-H) 1823-25 Milsom & Melsom Temple Street (Temple-Wa) 1826-35 Messrs Milsoms/John Milsom Temple Street (Temple-Wa) |
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| Children: With wife Rebecca Christian, bapt 13 Aug 1815 (PaPR), Samuel John, born 2 Feb 1817, bapt 24 Dec 1820 (TPR), Samuel, bapt 1 Feb 1818 (PaPR), George, born 12 Mar 1819, bapt 24 Dec 1820 (TPR), Rebecca, born 8 Aug 1820, bapt 24 Dec 1820 (TPR), John, born c1828 (JBPR marriage), Emma, bapt 8 Feb 1829 (PPR), Elizabeth Jane, bapt 18 Jul 1830 (PPR), Elizabeth Jane, bapt 8 Apr 1832 (PPR), Matilda Christiana, married 1839 (MLPBT) |