Bristol Potters
Research by Reg Jackson
FROST Henry
Born c1882 in Bristol, the son of George Frost (01C).
| 1901 | Potter’s presser, boarding at 38 Lewis Street, St Silas parish (19), with his father George Frost (01C). |
| 1911 | Mason’s labourer, 2 Goodrich Avenue, Caerphilly, South Wales (11C). |
FRY Charles
Born c1841 in Bristol, the son of Elizabeth Fry and the father of James Fry (71C, 81C).
| 1861 | Packer at pottery, 4 Taylors Court, Temple parish (20), living with his parents and siblings (61C). |
| 1871 | Earthenware packer, 4 Ash Lodge, Temple parish (30), living with his wife Emma (29) born in Bristol and children, and mother-in-law Elizabeth Fry, transferer potter (71C). |
| 1881 | Lamplighter, 7 Atlas Terrace, St Philip’s parish (40), living with his wife Emma (39) and children (81C). |
| 1891 | Packer, railway, widower, 60 Mill Street, Bedminster (50) (91C). |
| 1901 | Clay potter, widower, Bristol Union Workhouse, Manor Road, Fishponds (60) (01C). |
| Children: James C., born c1867 in Bristol (71C), Walter, born c1871 in Bristol (71C), Charles, born c1874 in Bristol (81C), Edwin, born c1876 in Bristol (81C), George, born c1880 in Bristol (81C) |
FRY Elizabeth
Born c1809 in Brighton, Sussex, the mother-in-law of Charles Fry (71C).
| 1861 | No occupation, 4 Taylors Court, Temple parish (52), living with her husband John (57), a general labourer, born in Bristol, and children Charles (20) and Sarah (18), both born in Bristol (61C). |
| 1871 | Transferer potter, 4 Ash Lodge, Temple parish (62), living with her son-in-law Charles Fry, earthenware packer, and family (71C). |
FRY James
Born c1865 in Temple parish, the son of Charles Fry (81C, 91C).
| 1881 | Warehouse boy at pottery, 7 Atlas Terrace, St Philip’s parish (14), living with his parents and siblings (81C). |
| 1891 | Potter’s warehouseman, 18 Whitehall Road, St George (24), living with his wife Selina (22), born in East Clevedon, Somerset, and daughter Emma (3 wks), born in St George (91C). |
| 1901 | Pottery warehouseman, 18 Bright Street, St George (34), living with his wife Selina (31), and children Emma (10) (Emily in 1911 census) and James (8), both born in Bristol (01C). |
| 1911 | Warehouseman (china), 18 Bright Street, St George (44), living with his wife Selina (43) and children (11C). |
FRY John
Born c1830 in Clifton, Bristol (81C).
| 1841 | Scholar, Avon Crescent, Clifton parish (11), living with his parents John, an engineer, and Sarah (41C). |
| 1846 | 23 Nov. He was apprenticed to William Powell (Ao). |
| 1851 | Stone potter, Avon Crescent, Clifton (21), living with his parents (51C). |
| 1855 & 56 | Bedminster (TPR). |
| 1861 | Stoneware potter, Somerset Street, Bedminster (31), living with his wife Elizabeth (32), born in Clifton, and children (61C). |
| 1871 | Stoneware potter, 12 Somerset Street, Bedminster (41), living with his wife Elizabeth (42) and children (71C). |
| 1873 | 29 Jul. John Fry the younger, stone ware potter, late apprentice of Wm. Powell, stone ware potter, a free burgess dec’d. Indenture of apprentice dated 23 Nov. 1846 endorsed produced (FM). |
| 1881 | Stoneware potter, 2 Hope Cottage, Bedminster (51), living with his wife Elizabeth (53) (81C). |
| 1891 | Stoneware potter, 58 Thomas Street, St Mary Redcliffe parish (62), living with his wife Elizabeth (63) (91C). |
| 1901 | Stoneware thrower, widower, 10 Kingstree Street, Knowle (71) (01C). |
| 1907 | He died aged 77 years (Ancestry website). |
| Children: William G.W., born c1854 in St Augustine’s parish (61C), Elizabeth, bapt 11 Nov 1855 (TPR), Emma Elizabeth, bapt 28 Dec 1856 (TPR), Sarah Ann, born c1859 in Bedminster (61C), John, born c1863 in Bedminster (61C), Rosetta, born c1864 in Bristol (71C) |
FRY William
Born c1870 in Temple parish (91C).
| 1891 | Earthenware packer, lodging at 21 Atlas Street, St Philip’s parish (91C). |
FUDGE (TUDGE) Richard
The son of Ogdobni Fudge of Bristol, blacksmith (A).
| 1718 | 7 Oct. He was apprenticed to Jonathan Hibbs (A, Ao, Ar). |
| 1728 | 16 Aug. A potter of Bristol, he was bondsman for the administration of John Addis, cidermaker (Adm.). |
| 1732 | 18 Oct. A potter of St Augustine’s parish, he was bondsman to a licence granted to Zacharis Stokes, butcher (M). |
| 1733 | 25 Sep. A potter of St Augustine’s parish, he was bondsman to a licence granted to Thomas Hill, yeoman (M). |
| 1739 | 29 Mar. A gentleman of St Augustine’s parish, he was bondsman to a licence granted to William Brown, potter, to marry Rebecca Fudge (M). |
| 1739 | 31 Oct. He became a free potter (F, G). |
| 1739 | He stood surety of £5 for Edward Wilkins, potter, to keep an alehouse in St Michael’s parish (AKL). |
| 1739 | Potter, St Augustine’s parish (P). |
FULLFOOT Thomas
| 1732 | 16 Oct. ‘Sarah Smith agst Thomas Fullfoot, potter in Bear Lane. Thurs the 19th of Oct 1732 Pltf. proved Deft. indebted to her 12s.2¾d for diet ordered it be paid with costs at 12d p. week’ (C). |
GABB John
Born c1819 in St Philip’s parish (61C).
| 1851 | Labourer for floor cloth works, 6 Rowley Place, St Mary Redcliffe parish (33), living with his wife Ann (35), and children (51C). |
| 1861 | Labourer at Pottery, 6 Rowley Place, St Mary Redcliffe parish (42), living with his wife Ann (44) born in St Peter’s parish and children (61C). |
| 1871 | His wife was a widow (71C). |
| Children: William, born c1841 in Bristol (51C), Alice, born c1848 in St Mary Redcliffe parish (61C), Clara, born c1854 in St Mary Redcliffe parish (61C), Emma, born c1855 in St Mary Redcliffe parish (61C) |
GADD Joseph
See the Potteries List section for the Counterslip Pottery and the 124 Temple Street Pottery.
Counterslip Pottery
The Pottery had previously been run by Joseph and William Read.
| 1783-85 | Joseph Gadd and Thomas Patience ran the Counterslip Pottery. |
Thomas Patience died in December 1785.
| 1786-97 | Joseph Gadd & Co. ran the Counterslip Pottery. |
In 1796 Joseph Gadd entered into partnership with Charles Price I and in 1797 they transferred production to the 124 Temple Street Pottery.
The Counterslip Pottery was taken over by William Maynard II.
124 Temple Street Pottery
| 1797-98 | Joseph Gadd and Charles Price I ran the 124 Temple Street Pottery. |
Joseph Gadd died in April 1798 and subsequently Charles Price I ran the 124 Temple Street Pottery alone.
| 1780 | 30 Oct. A potter of St Mary Redcliffe parish, he was granted a licence to marry Precilla Cox of Bedminster at St Mary Redcliffe (M). |
| 1780 | 31 Oct. ‘Joseph Gadd, potter, married Pricilla Cox, Bedminster, spinst.’ (RPR). |
| 1781 | 11 Dec. A potter of Cathay, St Mary Redcliffe parish, he petitioned for freedom (PF). |
| 1781 | 15 Dec. He became a free potter by Order of Common Council and payment of a fine of £8.8s (F, G). |
| 1784 | Potter, Temple parish (P). |
| 1785 | In partnership with Thomas Patience and trading as Patience and Gadd at Counterslip, Temple parish (BBD). |
| 1785 | 16 Mar. Potter, Counterslip (Ao). |
| 1787 | Joseph Gadd & Co., potters, Counterslip (BD). |
| 1787 | 18 Jun. Probably the Joseph Gadd who married Ann Brewer in Clifton (Ancestry website). |
| 1789 | 29 Sep. The Bedminster Pottery sold Joseph Gadd & Co. of Temple Street, ‘5 large crates’ for 5s (Bedminster Pottery Day Book). |
| 1792-3 | Joseph Gadd & Co., stone potters, Temple Back/Counterslip (RD, MD). |
| 1793 | 15 Apr. Potter, Counterslip (Ao). |
| 1794-98 | Joseph Gadd & Co., brown stone potters, Counterslip (MD). |
| 1796 | 1 Nov. He entered into partnership with Charles Price, potter (BRO Will 1798). |
| 1798 | 23 Mar. Will: ‘Joseph Gadd … Potter … I bequeath my Body to be interred in the Grave of my former Wife in the Church Yard of Saint Mary Redcliffe, which grave is at the Foot Stone of her Father’s, namely James Cox, … I … appoint Ann Gadd my dearly beloved Wife to be my sole Executrix … I give and bequeath all my Estate … to her the said Ann Gadd … except fifty pounds … which I give and bequeath to my daughter Catharine … I will and bequeath that my Executrix the said Ann Gadd, and my said Daughter Catharine be allowed Weekly, and every Week, the sum of fourteen shillings for their joint Maintenance, out of the joint Trade or Co-partnership with Mr Charles Price of the said City of Bristol; in the Art or Trade as Manufacturers of Brown Stone Ware during the full Term of seven Years as specified in the Articles of Co-partnership, made the first day of November in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-six … (BRO Will 1798).
This will was proved 14 Aug 1798. |
| 1798 | 1 Apr. Joseph Gadd died (BG). |
| Apprentices: Alone: John Bright, 16 or 21 Mar 1785 (A, Ao)With wife Ann: Edward Patience, 15 Apr 1793 (A, Ao) |
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| Tax and rate book entries: Property 1: [25 Mar 1783-21 Dec 1797 Joseph Gadd & Co. Counterslip (Temple-W,Wa,L,LS) [29 Sep 1797-25 Mar 1798] late Gadd & Co. (void) Counterslip (Temple-L)Property 2: [29 Sep 1797-29 Sep 1798] Joseph Gadd & Co. Temple St (Temple-L,Wa) Property 3: Property 4: |
GAFF [christian name not known]
| 1839 | 26 Oct. Employed at Powell’s Pottery, he purchased a pair of stolen boots and was required to give evidence at the trial of Henry Philips (Bristol Mercury). |
GAGE Daniel
Born c1801 in Bristol (41C).
| 1822 | 6 Apr. Married (FM). |
| 1825 & 27 | China painter, St Philip’s parish (PPR). |
| 1826 | 15 Jun. Obtained his freedom as a pottery painter (FM). |
| 1830 | Pottery printer, Holmes Court, Castle Street, Castle Precincts (P). |
| 1832 & 34 | Pottery printer, Three Queens Lane, St Thomas’s parish (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1832 | Pottery printer, Three Queens Lane, St Thomas’s parish (P). |
| 1835 | Pottery printer, Thomas Street, St Thomas parish (P). |
| 1841 | Labourer, Prospect Parade, St Philip’s parish (40), born in county, living with his wife Ann (39), born in county, and children (41C). |
| 1868 | 30 Jul. Noted as a pottery painter and free burgess when his sons Francis Henry Gage, a lithographer’s assistant, and Emanuel Gage, a packer, obtained their freedoms as they were the sons of a free burgess (FM). |
| Children: Daniel, bapt 19 Jun 1825 (PPR), James, bapt 19 Jun 1825 (PPR), Ann, bapt 3 Jun 1827 (PPR), William, born c1833 in county (41C), Robert, born c1835 in county (41C), Joseph, born c1837 in county (41C), Francis Henry, born 10 Jul 1841 (FM), Emanuel, born 9 Nov 1844 (FM) |
GAGE John
Born c1829 in [illegible] (51C).
| 1851 | Potter’s labourer, Ivey Cottage, Baptist Street, St Philip’s parish (22), living with his wife Elizabeth (22), warehouse woman, born in St George, and Ellen (4 mths), born in Bristol (51C). |
GALE James I
| 1851 | 19 May. Noted as a potter when his son William Gale, a labourer, of St Philip’s parish, married Mary Ann Edwards (PPR). |
GALE James II
Born c1829 in Bristol, the brother of William Gale (61C).
| 1851 | Labourer, 1 Wilmotts Crescent, Temple parish (21), living with his widowed father James, a labourer, and siblings (51C). |
| 1861 | Potter’s labourer, 11 Hamilton Court, Thomas Street, St Mary Redcliffe parish (32), living with his wife Elizabeth (38) born in Bristol, and children (61C). |
| 1871 | Engine driver, 4 Merchants Court, Castle Precincts, St Peter’s parish (42), living with his wife Eliza (47) and children (71C). |
| 1876 | Elizabeth Gale died aged 55 in Bedminster (Ancestry website). |
| ‘James and William Gale were in the employ of C. & J.R. Price … from about 1856 to the end of their days, having the care of the two steam engines; and mills and machinery attached. They were both hard-working, reliable and intelligent men – especially William. James had a poor unfortunate wife who always looked dazed, the picture of despair and wretchedness: always in rags and dirty. Her husband always made allowances for her want of care of the home, the children and herself: want of any care in spending his wages all of which he regularly put into her hands. I never knew of his ever saying a sharp word to her or of her, although the misery of the home and waste of his money was sad and depressing. He screened her from blame. His early affection for her has never waned or tired, but he was always excusing her and bearing with her want of cleanliness, her forgetfulness, her silent cheerlessness and sadness with an appearance of satisfied resignation. They had three sons and two daughters: [William] James, Henry and John; Mary Ann and … [This is probably a mistake, as they had 3 sons and 1 daughter, Elizabeth]. She [his wife] died about 1876 from burns through upsetting a paraffin lamp in her room. Her husband who was at his work at the time was heart-broken for many months. He died from bronchitis about 1882. His sons [William] James and John remained on at the Pottery for some years; [William] James as stoker and John as kiln fire-stoker and cleaner. [William] James lost his place through repeated neglect and, after many moves, took to work as a dock labourer. John also soon lost his place and could never get another and with his wife and child had to subsist on street jobs’. (Taken from a memorandum written in the late 1890s by Samuel Newell Price, a partner in Price’s Pottery). | |
| Children: Elizabeth/Eliza, born c1851 in Bristol (61C, 71C), William James, born c1855 in Bristol (61C), Henry, born c1857 in Bristol (61C), John, born c1860 in Bristol (61C) |
GALE John
Born c1860 in Bristol, the son of James Gale II and brother of William James Gale.
| 1880s | Employed by C. & J.R. Price, stoneware potters, as a kiln-fire stoker and cleaner. Lost his job and subsisted on ‘street jobs’ (see James Gale II). |
| 1881 | Labourer, visiting 11 Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (20) (81C). |
GALE William
Born c1828 in Temple parish, the brother of James Gale II (51C, 81C).
He was said to have been employed by C. & J.R. Price, stoneware potters, to work on their steam engines, and the mills and machinery attached, from the 1850s to the 1880s (see James Gale II).
| 1851 | Labourer, 1 Wilmotts Crescent, Temple parish (23), living with his widowed father James, a labourer, and siblings (51C). |
| 1861 | Locomotive engine driver, 8 Spring Street, Bedminster (32), living with his wife Mary Ann (31), born in Bristol (61C). |
| 1871 | Engine driver at factory, 60 Mead Street, Bedminster (43), living with his wife Mary Ann (41) (71C). |
| 1881 | Engine driver, 1 Tower Street Terrace, Temple parish (52), living with his wife Mary Ann (50), born in Temple parish (81C). |
| 1891 | General shop keeper, 18 Mill Lane, Bedminster (64), living with his wife Mary Ann (61) (91C). |
| 1894 | Probably the William Gale who died in Bedminster, aged 68 (Ancestry website). |
GALE William James
Born c1855 in Bristol, the son of James Gale II and the brother of John Gale (51C, 81C).
| 1880s | Employed by C. & J.R. Price, stoneware potters, as a stoker on their steam engines. Sacked for repeated negligence and became a dock labourer (see James Gale II). |
| 1881 | General labourer, 9 Bedford Place, St Philip’s parish (25), living with his wife Cathrine (25), born in Bristol (81C). |
GANE (GAINE) Frederick
Born c1831 in Temple parish (61C).
| 1861 | Earthenware printer, 4 Somerset Street, Bedminster (31) (61C). |
| 1871 | Pottery printer, widower, lodging at 14 Temple Street, Temple parish (40) (71C). |
| 1881 | Potter, widower, 17 Brougham Street, St Philip’s parish (51) (81C). |
GANE James
The son of John Gane of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, carrier (A).
| 1709 | 17 Aug. He was apprenticed to Thomas I and Elizabeth Frank. Friends to find apparel (Ao, Ar). |