MILSOM John

Posted on: October 16th, 2016 by webfooted

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)
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)

 

Comments are closed.