Born c1816 on the Ocean, a British subject (51C), although later he was noted as being born in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, the father of John Mountford II (61C).
| 1851 | Potter’s journeyman, 4 Tower Street, Temple parish (35), living with his wife Elizabeth (25) born in Burslem, Staffordshire, and daughter Mary (1) (51C). |
| 1852-55 | Bread Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1857 | 11 Oct. Cheese Lane, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1859 | 23 Oct. Bread Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1861 | 3 Church Street, Temple parish (45) living with his wife Elizabeth (36) and children (61C). |
| 1862 | 12 Jan. Bread Street, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1865 | 30 Jul. Noted as a potter when his daughter Ann of Regent Terrace married Elijah Clark (HTPR). |
| 1871 | His wife noted as a widow (81C). |
| 1875 | 10 May. Noted as a potter when his son John II (26), a potter of Jacob Street, St Philip’s parish married Eliza Newton (21) (PPR). |
| Children: Ann, born c1841 in Burslem (61C), Mary, born c1850 in Temple parish (51C), Jane (aged 10 mths), bapt 29 Aug 1852 (PPR), John (aged 2 wks), bapt 4 Sep 1853 (PPR), Mary (aged 17 days), bapt 19 Aug 1855 (PPR), James (aged 3 wks), bapt 11 Oct 1857 (PPR), William Charles, born 2 Oct 1859, bapt 23 Oct 1859 (PPR), Ralph, born 14 Dec 1861, bapt 12 Jan 1862 (PPR) |