Bristol Potters and Potteries

Research by Reg Jackson

Bristol Potters

Research by Reg Jackson

PORTER William

Born c1817 in Bristol, the brother of Henry Porter and father of Jane Porter (51C).

1834 4 Mar.  He was apprenticed to J.D. Pountney, aged 13 years (Ao).
1851 2 Hilliers Court, St Mary Redcliffe parish (34), living with his wife Jane (37) born in Bristol and children, and his brother Henry Porter, a potter (51C).
Children:
Jane, born c1836 in Bristol (51C), William, born c1840 in Bristol (51C), Elizabeth, born c1845 in Seville, Spain (51C).

 

POTTER Mary Ann

Born c1853 in Bristol (71C).

1871 Potter’s moulder, 8 Sidney Place, St Philip’s parish (18), the daughter of Frederick, a hawker (71C).

 

POTTER Simon le

1313 Simon le Potter appears in the Trinity Quarter Tallage Roll.

 

POTTERELL William

1726 13 Jan. ‘Ann, wife of William Potterell, Potter, St Augustine’s’ buried (RB).

 

POTTERY John

The son of William Pottery of Bristol, potmaker (A).

1733 7 Jun. He was apprenticed to his father (A, Ar).
1740 14 Oct. He was buried at St Michael’s (Pountney 1920, 69).

POTTERY William

See also the Potteries List section for the Limekiln Lane Potteries 1 and 2.

Limekiln Lane Pottery 1
William Pottery and John Weaver succeeded Henry Hobbs at the Limekiln Lane Pottery 1.  Hobbs had vacated the premises early in 1723.

1724-34 William Pottery and John Weaver were in partnership at the Limekiln Lane Pottery 1.

John Weaver died in 1734 and in the same year William Pottery moved to Limekiln Lane Pottery 2.  The Limekiln Lane Pottery 1 was taken over by Charles Christopher.

Limekiln Lane Pottery 2

1734-39 William Pottery ran the Limekiln Lane Pottery 2.

Limekiln Lane Pottery 2 became ‘void’ in 1739 and never operated again as a Pottery.

 

The son of Lawrence Pottery of Yatton, Somerset, a cordwainer (A).

1707 28 Mar. He was apprenticed to Woods Rogers and co-partners, ‘to be educated in the art of pottmaking, etc.’.  He was to provide himself with meat, drink, clothing, washing, lodging and all other necessities. In consequence his master was to allow him 13 shillings per annum, to be paid quarterly for the first three years, and 15 shillings for the last four to be paid in like manner (A, Ar).
1715 20 Jun. He became a free potmaker (F, G).
1722 Potmaker, St Michael’s parish (P).
1723 3 Jan. ‘William Pottry potter [crossed out] infant St Michael’s’ buried (RB).
1726 14 Feb. He was described as a white potter (A, Ao, Ar).
1727 11 Nov. A potter of St Augustine’s parish, he was granted a licence to marry Ann Edwards of Clifton, at Clifton. Bondsman: Edward Edwards of Clifton, shipwright (M).
1730-31 He was described as a potter or ‘pottmaker’ of Cow or Limekiln Lane (A, Ao, Ar).
1731 28 Mar. ‘Ann, wf. of Wm. Pottery, potter, St Augustine’ buried (RB).
1731 23 Sep. ‘Henry Jones agst. John Barton potter att Mr Potteryes under Brandon Hill’ (C).
1732 6 Apr. ‘John Arnoll agst. Charles Edwards at Mr Potteryes Brandon Hill’ (C).
1733 15 Feb. ‘Paul Townsend agt. John Burton potter at Mr Potterys under Brandon Hill’ (C).
1733-35 He was described as a potmaker of Cow Lane (A, Ao, Ar).
1734 Potmaker, St Augustine’s parish (P).
1734 14 Nov. ‘Richard Smith agt. George Nowlton potter at potterys under Brandon Hill’ (C).
1739 Potmaker, St Augustine’s parish (P).
1742 21 Jun. He was buried at St Augustine’s church (Ancestry website).
Apprentices:
With wife Ann:
Thomas Martin, 31 Dec 1730 (A, Ao, Ar)
William Brown, 4 May 1731 (A, Ao, Ar)-15 Oct 1739 (F, G)
John Heyfield II, 20 Jul 1731 (A, Ao, Ar)-7 Nov 1739 (G)
John Brown, 22 Sep 1731 (A, Ao, Ar)-7 Nov 1739 (F)Alone:
John Prewett, 14 Feb 1726 (A, Ao, Ar)
John Pottery, 7 Jun 1733 (A, Ar)
Francis Morgan, 9 Jun 1733 (A, Ao, Ar)
Benjamin Brinton, 31 Jul 1735 (A, Ao, Ar)
Rate and tax book entries:
Property 1:
Limekiln Lane Pottery 1
1728/29 ‘Pottery and Weaver for the Potthouse’ (St Augustine’s-LS)
Rates were also being paid by the owner of the land and Pottery, Joan Bayley.Property 2:
Limekiln Lane Pottery 2
[25 Mar 1734-29 Sep 1734 ‘Mr Pottery, dwelling house, pothouse, etc’ Cow Lane (St Augustine’s-L)
1734/5 ‘Mr Pottery’s New Pothouse & dwelling ho’ Cow Lane (St Augustine’s-L)
The rates were then paid by the owner of the land and Pottery, Mr Grimsteed.
[29 Sep 1738-25 Mar 1739 ‘Wm Pottery for Pothouse’ Cow and Limekiln Lane (St Augustine’s-L)
25 Mar 1739-25 Mar 1740 ‘Wm Pottery for Pothouse void’ Cow and Limekiln Lane (St Augustine’s-L)

 

POUNSBURY James H.

Born c1817 in Bristol (51C).

1851 Clerk at an earthenware factory, 6 Redcliff Parade, St Mary Redcliffe parish (34), living with his sister Helen Bradford (21) born in Dudley, Worcestershire, who acted as his housekeeper (51C).

 

POUNTNEY Charlotte Fayle

See the Potteries List section for the Water Lane Pottery.

The Pottery had previously been run by John Decimus Pountney, her husband, who died in December 1852.

1853-72 Charlotte Fayle Pountney ran the Water Lane Pottery.

In 1857 someone called ‘Edwards’ became a partner, the firm trading as Pountney, Edwards & Co. until 1858.

Charlotte Fayle Pountney died in November 1872 and the Pottery was taken over by Halsted Sayer Cobden.

 

Born c1806 in Corfe, Dorset, she was the wife of John Decimus Pountney.

1851-53 J.D. Pountney, for the manufacture of all sorts of plain and ornamental earthenware, Water Lane (MD).
1853 22 Jan. ‘Notice is hereby given that the Bristol Pottery, carried on for nearly forty years by the late Mr John D. Pountney, will in future be conducted under the firm of “Mr J.D. Pountney and Co”, by his widow, Mrs Charlotte Fayle Pountney, who respectfully solicits a continuance of the kind support so many years conferred on her late husband’ (Bristol Mercury).
1853 13 Aug. ‘George Berry was charged with stealing six plates from the premises of Messrs Pountney of Temple Back. The manager of the pottery last evening observed the prisoner act in a way that excited his suspicions, following him from the premises, and having brought him back, found plates in his pockets, they were then warm as they came from the kiln’ (Bristol Mercury).
1854-57 J.D. Pountney & Co., for the manufacture of all sorts of plain and ornamental earthenware, Water Lane (MD).
1854 16 Sep. ‘We have much pleasure in announcing that Messrs J.D. Pountney & Co. of the Bristol Pottery, have resolved to confer the half-holiday privilege on the numerous workpeople in their employ, by closing their establishment for the future at one o’clock on Saturdays’ (Bristol Mercury).
1855 19 May. Robert Wilson, aged 10 years, was charged with stealing lead, the property of Mrs Pountney of the pottery. The child’s father worked at the pottery. Case was dismissed (Bristol Mercury).
1855 13 Oct. William Dodd was charged with stealing iron, the property of Mrs Pountney, of the Bristol Pottery, and Stephen Dunford, a smith, residing in Water Lane, was charged with receiving the same. Lock was employed at the factory as a haulier, and Dunford did the smiths’ work there. Both prisoners were remanded (Bristol Mercury).
1857  15 Aug. ‘The Bristol Pottery, Temple Back. Pountney, Edwards & Co. (late J.D. Pountney & Co), respectfully inform the nobility, gentry and inhabitants of Bristol, Clifton and the vicinities that they have fitted up a spacious showroom, at their manufactory, with a choice and varied assortment of porcelain & earthenware comprising patterns and designs of the most recherche description in dinner and dessert services, toilet, tea and breakfast sets, together with a carefully selected stock of useful goods which will enable visitors to purchase direct from the manufactory, and at the same time afford them an opportunity of inspecting the Working Department of one of the most ancient and interesting of all manufactures.  The manufactory is open daily for the inspection of visitors’ (Bristol Mercury).
1858 Pountney, Edwards & Co., earthenware manufacturers, Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs (MD).
1859-72 Pountney & Co., manufacturer of plain and ornamental earthenware, Bristol Pottery, Temple Back (MD).
1859 19 Feb. ‘For sale, a good, useful cob, stands 14½ hands high, good in saddle or harness. To be seen at the Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs’ (Bristol Mercury).
1860 11 Jul. ‘To engine drivers and fitters. Wanted, a competent and steady man to take charge of a steam engine and apparatus belonging to a potter’s mill. Unexceptionable references as to character and ability required. Apply at the Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs’ (Western Daily Press).
1862 8 Feb. ‘Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs … Pountney & Company, continue to supply earthenware wholesale and for exportation. Pountney & Co. had no connection with the Bristol Pottery sold by auction a few days ago’ (Bristol Mercury).
1862 28 Jun. Two boys, Robert Smith and James Allen, were charged with stealing 45 pounds of lead from the Bristol Pottery (Bristol Mercury).
1863 5 Dec. Two boys, James and Thomas Hutchings, were charged with stealing iron from the Bristol Pottery. The younger prisoner, James, was discharged, but the other was sentenced to six weeks hard labour (Bristol Mercury).
1864 13 Sep. ‘To builders and others. Dry rubble may be constantly had at the Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs, and three pence per ton will be given for hauling it away’ (Western Daily Press).
1865 Exhibition Catalogue. Pountney (workpeople in employ of), Potter, Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs – various articles and designs in Pottery Ware (Bristol Tracts BRL B1023).
1866 22 Aug. ‘An accident of a serious character happened to William Geale, one of the engineers at the Bristol Pottery. He was engaged in adjusting the pumps of the engine, and incautiously placed his hand in one of the chambers of a pump to ease the chain of the bucket, having previously given the order to start. His hand was drawn into and jammed against the chamber. The engine was at once stopped but the limb was fixed so fast that it could not be extricated until a half-hundred weight had been forced down upon the bucket’. He was taken to the General Hospital where his injuries were found to be very severe, although amputation was not considered necessary’ (Western Daily Press).
1867 29 Jun. ‘The Bristol Pottery. Messrs G.C. Ashmead & Son have been instructed by the Executors of the late Proprietor to offer for sale by public auction … on Thursday the 4th day of July … all that well-established, extensive and valuable freehold earthenware pottery known as the Bristol Pottery, with the plant, stock, etc, of the same, situate in Water Lane and Temple Backs … and also all that lifehold wharf, yard and buildings, used with the pottery, and separated therefrom by the public road. The property comprises: a foreman’s house and another dwelling house, flint, slip and enamel kilns, biscuit and glost ovens, steam engine, fixtures, moulds, etc., and all the requisites for carrying on an extensive business capable of being extended at a small cost. To view the property apply to Mr Clowes, the Manager …’ (Bristol Mercury).
1867 6 Jul. ‘The Bristol Pottery. This valuable property, containing an area of nearly an acre and a half, not having been sold by auction this day, may be treated for by private contract. The premises are so extensive that portions of them may easily be converted to other businesses if desired. Price, including all machinery, fittings and fixtures mentioned in the particulars, but excepting the manufactured and unmanufactured stock-in-trade and materials, £15,000’ (Bristol Mercury).
1871 Charlotte Pountney, annuitant, widow, The Shrubbery, Pucklechurch (65), living with her children William Joseph (22) and Lucy E. (21), both born in Clifton, and servants Jemima Wall (23) and Henry Wilton (10) (71C).
1871 28 Jan. ‘To builders and lime burners. Ashes to be given away, at the Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs’ (Bristol Mercury).
1872 ‘Pountney & Co., Temple Back Potteries, was established in Bristol as early as the time of Edward I. The pottery on Temple Backs was established probably after 1787, the tablet on the premises, however, states 1750. The works were commenced by a Mr King [sic]; they afterwards passed into the hands of a Mr Carter, from whom they were purchased by the late Mr Pountney, 1822. White earthenware only is manufactured which is composed of calcined flints, feldspar, Devonshire clay, and china clay from Cornwall.  About 250 hands are employed and about 5000 tons of coals, and 3000 tons of flints, clay, etc., are consumed annually’ (‘Illustrated Handbook to Bristol, Clifton and Neighbourhood, 1872).
1872 Charlotte Fayle Pountney died in Clifton, aged 65 and was buried on 8 Nov. 1872 at Henbury (Ancestry website).

 

POUNTNEY John Decimus

See the Potteries List section for the Water Lane Pottery.

The Pottery had previously been run by Henry Carter & Company (which comprised Henry Carter and Joseph Ring II). In April 1813 John Decimus Pountney entered into partnership with Carter and Ring.

1813-52 John Decimus Pountney ran the Water Lane Pottery.
Joseph Ring died in May 1813 and a new partnership was formed between Carter and Pountney.  The partnership between Carter and Pountney was dissolved in October 1815. Pountney then ran the Pottery alone until 1816 when he entered into a partnership with Edwin Allies, the firm trading as Pountney & Allies.  The partnership with Allies was dissolved in March 1835 and Pountney again ran the Pottery alone. Pountney formed a partnership with Gabriel Goldney in December 1836, the firm trading as Pountney & Goldney. The partnership with Goldney ended in 1850 and once again Pountney ran the Pottery alone.

Pountney died in December 1852 and the Pottery was hen taken over by his wife, Charlotte Fayle Pountney.

 

 

1789 5 Apr. He was born at Endcliffe in Henbury parish (Pountney 1920).
1790 13 Jan. He was baptised at Henbury, the son of William and Mary Pountney.  (William was a surgeon at Henbury and Mary was Mary Heath; they had married at St James’s church on 10 January 1775).
1813 5 Apr. A deed of partnership between Henry Carter of Bristol, manufacturer of earthenware … Joseph Ring of Bristol, manufacturer of earthenware … and John Decimus Pountney of Bristol, manufacturer of earthenware … Henry Carter together with Joseph Ring having for some years past carried on the trade of manufacturers of printed, painted enamelled, and cream coloured earthenware under the name of Henry Carter & Co. in premises the exclusive property of Henry Carter situated in Water Lane.  They accepted J.D. Pountney as co-partner.  Assets of the pottery valued at £11,425.4s.11d. The firm to be called Carter, Ring & Pountney (BRO 20165/1).
1813 10 Apr. ‘Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs. Henry Carter and Joseph Ring, under the firm of ‘Henry Carter & Co’ having formed a connexion with John Decimus Pountney, beg leave to inform their Friends and the Public that their Manufactory will for the future be carried on under the firm of ‘Carter, Ring & Pountney’. They manufacture Porcelain, Egyptian, blue printed and enamelled Table Ware, and every article requisite for the various Foreign Markets, and for the Home Trade.  Export Orders to any extent shipped immediately’ (FFJ).
1813 10 Jul. ‘Bristol Pottery and Earthenware Manufactory, Temple-Backs. The Firm of Carter, Ring & Pountney, being dissolved by the death of Mr Joseph Ring, the manufactory is continued by Henry Carter and John Decimus Pountney, under the firm of ‘Carter & Pountney’ who manufacture Porcelain, Black Egyptian, Blue printed and enamelled Table Services, and every article requisite for the home and export trade. Crates calculated for all the Foreign Markets ready to be shipped immediately; also, small family Crates for domestic use forwarded to order’ (FFJ).
1813 7 Dec. John Decimus Pountney, potter, Temple £15.15s.0d. Paid 15 Jan 1814.  His father a free burgess but not at the time a resident the petitioner born out of the liberties of the city (PF).
1814 26 Jan. The partnership deed between Carter, Ring and Pountney was endorsed following the death of Joseph Ring II, the firm to be known as Carter and Pountney (BRO 20165/1).
1814-16 Carter & Pountney, manufacturers of printed, painted, enamelled and cream coloured earthenwares, Water Lane, Temple Back. Pottery Coal Wharf, Temple Back (MD).
1815 28 Oct. ‘Partnerships dissolved: Carter & Pountney of Bristol, earthenware dealers’ (FFJ).
1815-52 Pountney & Co., Pountney & Allies and Pountney & Goldney were exporting earthenware to Cork, Waterford, Dublin, Limerick, Guernsey, Jersey, Ostend, Hamburg, Bayonne, Malta, Gijon (Spain), Corunna, Bilbao, Rivadero (Spain), Viana (Spain), Lisbon, Santander, Oporto, St Ubes (Portugal), Naples, Palermo, Livorno (Italy), St Kitts, Nevis, Jamaica, Barbados, St Vincent, St Michaels (probably now Bridgetown), Trinidad, Antigua, Tobago, Grenada, St Thomas, Demerara, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Charleston, New York, New Orleans, Quebec, Montreal, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Rio de Janeiro, Camina (possibly Chile), Coast of Africa, Mauritius, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Adelaide and Port Phillip (PB-EXP).
1816 6 Jul. ‘Committed to Newgate: Thomas Drew, charged with having feloniously broken open the counting-house of Messrs Pountney & Allies, on Temple Backs, and stealing several articles thereout’ (FFJ). 20 Jul. ‘Quarter Sessions tried: Thomas Drew for stealing gold and silver coin, etc value £3.3s’ (FFJ).
1817-19 Pountney & Allies, manufacturers of printed, painted, enamelled and cream coloured earthenware, Water Lane, Temple Back (MD).
1819 ‘Bristol Pottery. The earthen-ware manufactory, under the name of the Bristol Pottery, is on Temple Back.  It is carried on by Messrs Pountney and Allies, has been established several years, and is now on a large and extensive scale giving employment to about 200 men, women, and children. The articles they produce are similar to those of Mr. Wedgwood’s, and the other superior potteries of Staffordshire, and constitute, in addition to the home trade, a considerable article of export to all the foreign markets. They grind their materials by means of a large and powerful steam-engine, and the various processes of forming the ware, of the glazing, of the printing, the painting, the enamelling, etc. are peculiarly curious and interesting. Admission may be had by application to the proprietors at the counting-house on the premises’ (MD).
1819 22 Feb. The firm of Pountney and Allies put their name to a petition to Parliament requesting that a tax was not put on coal (Bristol Mercury).
1820-35 Pountney & Allies, manufacturer of all sorts of plain and ornamental earthenware, Water Lane, Temple Back (MD).
1821 He bought from Henry Carter the whole of the freehold of the Water Lane portion of the pottery and also the Robert Ring portion (Pountney 1920).
1822-30 J.D. Pountney, 13 Portland Square (MD).
1823 Survey and valuation of Temple: Temple Backs Proprietor: J. D. Pountney, Occupier: Pountney & Allies Dwelling house and pottery (BRO Temple AJ2).
1826 25 Mar. ‘Thursday evening, about 9 o’clock, part of the roof of the Bristol Pottery was discovered to be on fire; but by the judicious and prompt exertions of the foreman and seven men, the flames were fortunately subdued, without the assistance of the fire engine’ (Bristol Mercury).
1832 Potter, Pottery and counting house, Water Lane, Temple parish (P).
1835 28 Mar. ‘Notice is hereby given that the Partnership subsisting between … John Decimus Pountney and Edwin Allies in the business of Potters … under the firm of Pountney and Allies is this day dissolved by mutual consent …’ (BRO 20165/2).
1836 J.D. Pountney, for the manufacture of all sorts of plain and ornamental earthenware, Water Lane, Temple Back (MD).
1836 Redcliff Ward, John Decimus Pountney, Pottery Water Lane (WL).
1836 20 Dec. A partnership was formed between J.D. Pountney and Gabriel Goldney (Pountney 1920).
1836 Redcliffe Ward, J.D. Pountney, Pottery, Water Lane (WL).
1837 Temple Back, Temple parish (P).
1837-50 Pountney & Goldney, manufacturer of all sorts of plain and ornamental earthenware, Water Lane, Temple Back (MD).
1838 10 Nov. Mr Pountney of the Pottery, Temple Backs, was elected an Alderman of the City of Bristol (Bristol Mercury).
1840 Redcliffe Ward, John Decimus Pountney, Warehouse Temple Back (WL).
1841 Manufacturer, Richmond Villas, Clifton (52), living with his wife Susan (50), not born in county, and servants Susan Green (30) and Sarah Jenkins (20) (41C).
1841 Earthenware manufacturer, Temple Back, Temple parish (P).
1841 The evidence of John Cooper, aged 38, then employed by Messrs C. & W. Harvey, Longton, Staffordshire: ‘I have been employed in the dipping-house 30 years – as a carrier and brusher when a boy, and as a dipper since for 10 years, and subsequently a fireman for 12 years.  I am a father of a family; have three daughters; if I had a son I would not bring him to the dipping-tub, because I would rather that he should live. When I worked at Bristol I knew four cases of death in the dipping-house of Mr Allies (now Mr Gowney’s [probably Goldney’s]); they used more arsenic then than they do now; I don’t think this pernicious metal is used in the potteries now, but there is a good deal of lead …’ (A Report by Samuel Scrivens, Esq., on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the District of the Staffordshire Potteries.  This report was the result of a Commission set up by the House of Commons to inquire into the state of children employed in the mines and manufactories.  It was written in 1841 and published in 1843).
1842 13 Sep. His first wife, Susanna Fisher died.  There were no children from this marriage.
1843 24 Jun. The partnership between Pountney and Gabriel Goldney was extended for 7 years.  Pountney held 75% of the business, Goldney 25% (BRO 20165/3).
1844 29 Jun. He married Charlotte Fayle Willis at Corfe Castle, Dorset.
1844 14 Dec. ‘Messrs Pountney and Goldney have much pleasure in drawing the attention of the public to the manufacture of encaustic inlaid glazed and plain tiles, from the celebrated works at Worcester, for the sale of which they have accepted agency, and will receive orders from the proprietors, Messrs Fleming St John, G. Barr and Company. These beautiful tiles, being subjected to a very high degree of fire, and glazed (in imitation of the best ancient specimens), are perfectly impervious to wet or damp, free from dust, and easily cleaned. They are in much demand for churches, halls, conservatories, dairies, etc, etc. For specimens and prices apply at the Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs’ (Bristol Times).
1845 Redcliffe Ward, John Decimus Pountney, House Temple Back (WL).
1845 17 May. ‘Francis Jewell was charged with stealing 19 cheese plates from the Bristol Pottery, the property of Messrs Pountney and Goldney’ (Bristol Times).
1845 2 Jul. Manufacturer, Freshford Villa, Richmond Hill, Clifton (TPR).
1845 15 Nov. ‘Lease … granted to J.D. Pountney, potter … ground used as a coal yard and wharf, etc., in occupation of J.D. Pountney and Gabriel Goldney his partner in trade …’ (BRO 00206).  On 5 November 1853 the lease was transferred to Charlotte Fayle Pountney of Clifton, widow, on the life of John Willis Pountney, aged 6 … (BRO 00206).
1847 Manufacturer, Richmond Hill (P).
1849 26 Mar. Manufacturer, 9 Richmond Hill, Clifton (TPR).
1850 24 Apr. Manufacturer, 9 Richmond Hill, Clifton (TPR).
1850 12 Oct. Gabriel Goldney was recorded as the Governor of the Corporation of the Poor in Bristol. He stated that in consequence of the dissolution of the partnership at the Bristol Pottery he was going into the north of England, but that he was not, at present, going to remove his family from Bristol (Bristol Times).
1851 Potter employing 80 men, 60 women and 50 children, 9 Richmond Hill, Clifton (61), born Henbury, Gloucestershire. Wife: Charlotte (45) born Corfe, Dorset. Children: Mary A. (5), John (3), William (2), Lucy (4) all born in Clifton. Niece: Susan Barrett (17) born Hazlebury, Somerset. Servants: Susan Brinton (34), Mary Moss (18), Mary Hordle (22), Sophia Marks (23) (51C).
1851 Temple Survey: Owner: Pountney, Occupier: Pountney & Goldney, Yard & sheds; House & pottery, Temple Backs (BRO 04250(1)).
1851-53 J.D. Pountney, for the manufacturer of all sorts of plain and ornamental earthenware, Water Lane (MD).
1852 31 Jan. Bristol Atheneum, Grand Soiree at the Victoria Rooms. Decorating the hall were ‘delicately made flower baskets, with flowers, etc, formed of Parian clay, and having all the appearance of having been cut out of the finest marble. These were the manufacture of J.D. Pountney, Esq., of the Bristol Pottery, who also exhibited a superb China vase and an imitation Etruscan vase, of great beauty and value’ (Bristol Times).
1852 30 Dec. He died and was buried in Temple churchyard (Pountney 1920).  His tombstone still survives.
1853 8 Jan. ‘The late J.D. Pountney, Esq. The remains of this respected gentleman … were interred on Tuesday in the family vault at Temple church. The melancholy cortege consisted of a chariot and pair, a hearse and four richly plumed, and three mourning coaches and pairs. The body was also followed by about sixty of the workmen and apprentices of the deceased (who was proprietor of the Bristol Pottery)’ (Bristol Mercury).
Apprentices:
(All from A, Ao)
Abraham Morgan, thrower, 29 Apr 1814
Benjamin Humphries, turner, 29 Apr 1814
Joseph White, turner, 26 Aug 1814
John Hales, 15 Dec 1814
John Harding, turner, 18 Jan 1815
William Davies, enameller, 29 Mar 1815
Abraham Grimes, turner, 29 Mar 1815
William Hales, presser, 29 Mar 1815
William Wall, turner, 31 May 1815
Frederick Chappel, turner, 11 Oct 1815
Thomas Davis, presser, 11 Oct 1815
John Cross, thrower, 16 Nov 1815
Samuel Cross, 16 Nov 1815
James Maish, handler and presser, 16 Nov 1815
Joseph Slade, turner, 17 Feb 1816
George Bye, 23 Sep 1818
James Clark, 1 Oct 1818
George Overend, thrower, 25 Feb 1819
George Lamb, thrower, 25 Feb 1819
Joseph Southerd, thrower, 25 Feb 1819
Henry Maish, enameller, 7 Nov 1820
Henry Clark, enameller, 14 Aug 1821
Thomas Bullock, 23 Sep 1822
William Yandell, 23 Sep 1822
Thomas Harford, 23 Sep 1822
James Preston, 16 Apr 1823
Samuel Aldridge, 16 Apr 1823
Thomas Sweet, 16 Apr 1823
Francis Hollister, 16 Apr 1823
Edward Arbour, 16 Apr 1823
John Justice, 16 Apr 1823
Thomas Page, 16 Apr 1823
Thomas Page, 16 Apr 1823
Samuel Stiles, 24 Oct 1825
William Stephens, 24 Oct 1825
James Short, 11 August 1826
Samuel Shepston, 11 Aug 1826
Henry Allen, 6 Dec 1826
Francis Perry, 12 Dec 1826
Thomas Brion, 16 Jan 1828
William Hill, 16 Jan 1828
James Ford, 28 Mar 1828
John Cousins, 28 Mar 1828
George Mackrell, 5 Sep 1831
Henry Harris, squeezer, 5 Sep 1831
Richard Roberts, squeezer, 5 Sep 1831
John James, handler & squeezer, 7 Oct 1831
Richard Mitchell, handler & squeezer, 7 Oct 1831
William Thomas, 22 Oct 1833
William Harris, 4 Mar 1834
William Porter, 4 Mar 1834
John Sweet, 4 Mar 1834
George Hallett, 10 Mar 1835
Charles Bowden, 10 mar 1835
Henry Hunt, 29 Feb 1836
Robert Goodyer, 29 Feb 1836
James Pritchard, 29 Feb 1836
William Pring, 29 Feb 1836
Charles Smith, 1 Jun 1836
Edward Maish, 1 Jun 1836
William Marks, 10 Oct 1836
John Roberts, 10 Oct 1836
Henry Porter, 10 Oct 1836
John Bryan, 9 Jan 1837
William Fifoot, 9 Jan 1837
Charles Martin, 11 Oct 1837
James Ford, 11 Oct 1837
Edwin Richmond, 11 Oct 1837
William Pode, turner, 29 Jan 1838
Thomas Gibbs II, 29 Jan 1838
Thomas Harris, 2 Jun 1838
Frederick Shaw, 6 Jun 1838
John Emdin, 12 Jun 1838
Henry Rowney, squeezer, 16 Sep 1839
George Coggins, handler, 16 Sep 1839
Henry Price, turner, 12 Mar 1844
Daniel Palmer, saucer maker, 12 Mar 1844
George Marsh, thrower, 12 Mar 1844
John Hodgson, plate maker, 12 Mar 1844
William Webster, plate maker, 12 Mar 1844
Henry Smith, presser, 12 Mar 1844
William Richmond, presser, 31 Aug 1846
Rate book entries:
Property 1
1822-35 Messrs Pountney & Allies for Manufactory Water Lane (Temple-H,Wa)
25 Mar 1830-25 Mar 1831 Pountney & Co. tenements and pottery Water Lane (Temple-PR, etc)Property 2
1822-35 Messrs Pountney & Allies coal yard Borough Walls/Temple Back (Temple-H,Wa)
Children:
Wife Charlotte Fayle
Mary Ann, bapt 2 Jul 1845 (TPR), John Willis, born c1848 (51C, BRO 00206), William Joseph, bapt 26 Mar 1849 (TPR), Lucy Elizabeth, bapt 24 Apr 1850 (TPR)

 

POWDE Frederick

Born c1826, not in Bristol (41C).

1841 Apprentice potter, South Place Back, nr. Redcliff Building, St Mary Redcliffe parish (15) (41C).

 

POWELL Benjamin

Born c1824 in Bristol, the son of William Powell and the brother of Septimus and William Augustus Frederick Powell (61C).

1838 27 Feb. He was apprenticed to his parents William and Constance Powell (A).
1841 Apprentice glass manufacturer, Temple Gate, St Mary Redcliffe parish (15), living with his father William Powell (50), glass manufacturer and mother Constance (41C).
1854 21 Jan. He was left an annuity of fifty pounds for a period of 7 years in his father’s will on the express condition that he did not ‘come to inhabit or reside at or within twenty miles of the City of Bristol’ (PRO Prob 11/2195).
1861 Glass bottle manufacturer, 6 Desborough Place, Paddington, London (37), living with his wife Martha (30), born in Whitchurch, and children Constance (9), born in Manchester, Florence (1) and Edith (4 mths), both born in London (61C).

 

POWELL Boon

1739 2 Nov. He became a free potter as he was the son of John Powell, saddler, deceased (F, G).
1739 Potter, Temple parish (P).
1743 21 Apr. Ann, daughter of ‘Booney Powell’ baptised (RPR).
1745 Ann, wife of Boon Powell of St Mary Redcliffe parish, potter, received £1 from John Whitson’s Charity for poor women in child bed (JW).
1747 & 1752 Ann, wife of Boon Powell of St Mary Redcliffe parish, potter, received £1 from John Whitson’s Charity for poor women in child bed (JW).
1754 Potter, Temple parish (P).
1754 5 Jun. ‘Information of Boon Powell, servant to Thomas Cantle, potter, against Mary Spragot, wife of Robert Spragot, soldier, for theft of several pieces of timber’ (BRO Wooden Box 1754 Bundle 2 No.10).
1757 Thomas Ward II, potter, stood surety of £5 for Boon Powell to keep an alehouse in Temple parish (AKL).
1758 Thomas Batten, potter, stood surety of £5 for Boon Powell to keep an alehouse in Temple parish (AKL).
1764 A Boon Powell was landlord of the Blue Bowl alehouse in Temple Street (McGrath & Williams 1979, 7).
1766 9 Mar. Boon Powell buried (TPR).
1774 17 Oct. John Force, cordwainer, became free as he had married Susannah, daughter of Boon Powell, potter, deceased (G).
1774 20 Oct. William Parry, wheelwright, became free as he had married Ann, daughter of Boon Powell, potter, deceased (G).
Children: Thomas Boon, bapt 17 Sep 1739 (TPR), Ann, bapt 21 Apr 1743 (RPR), Boon, bapt 4 Jul 1747 (TPR), Boon, bapt 1 Aug 1748 (TPR)

 

POWELL Frederick I

Born c1824 (Ao).

1838 6 Jun. He was apprenticed to J.D. Pountney, aged 14 years (Ao).

POWELL Frederick II

Born c1833 in Bristol (71C).

1861 Private, HMS Forward, Esquimalt Harbour, Vancover Island (27) (61C).
1867 20 Jan. Broad Weir, St Philip’s parish on the baptism of his daughter Amelia Ann (born 2 Dec 1866). Wife Eliza (PPR).
1871 15 Rosemary House, St Paul’s parish (38), living with his wife Eliza Ann (37), born in Gloucestershire, and children Amelia (5) and Ruth H. (2), both born in Bristol (71C).
1881 Potter, 6 Tippett’s Court, St James’s parish (48), living with his wife Eliza (46), born in Tockington, and children Frederick (9), Ruth (11), Sarah Ann (7) and Martha (2), all born in Bristol (81C).

 

POWELL John

See the Potteries List section for the Temple Gate Pottery.

The Pottery had previously been run by William and Thomas Powell.

1831-32 John Powell ran the Temple Gate Pottery in partnership with his brother, William Powell.

His brother William Powell then ran the Pottery alone.

 

The brother of William Powell.

1828 Glass merchant and stoneware manufacturer, specification for machinery for making sugar moulds (Patent No. 5657).
1831-32 William & John Powell, brown stone potters, patentees and manufacturers of stone ware sugar moulds, Temple Gate (MD).
1832 House & pottery, Temple Gate (P).
1832 House & pottery, Temple Gate (List of Electors BRO 04736).

POWELL Joseph

Born c1877 in Bedminster, the brother of Laura Powell (91C, 01C).

1891 Works at pottery, 1 Avon Bank Brick Work Cottages, St Philip’s parish (14) (91C).
1901 Potter, 15 Philip Street, St Silas parish (23), living with his parents Thomas, a brickyard labourer, and Sarah, and his sister Laura (01C).

 

POWELL Laura

Born c1882 in Bristol, the brother of Joseph Powell (01C).

1901 Potter’s assistant, 15 Philip Street, St Silas parish (19), living with her parents and brother Joseph (01C).

 

POWELL Martha S.

Born c1826 in Bristol (71C).

1861 No occupation, Temple Backs, Temple parish (35), the wife of Frederick, a tide waiter (61C).
1871 Painter at pottery, 2 Bennetts Yard, Temple parish (45), living with her husband Frederick, a pensioner (71C).
1881 Widow, 10 Temple Plain, Temple parish (55), living with her son Francis William (19), a clerk, born in Bristol (81C).
1891 Painter on earthenware, widow, 10 Temple Place, Temple parish (65), living with her son Frederick (28) (91C).
1901 No occupation, 50 Rosebery Park, St Matthew’s parish (75) (01C).

 

POWELL Mary Ann

Born c1834 in St Philip’s parish (71C).

1871 Assistant at pottery, 3 Pinnell Street, St Philip’s parish (37), living with her husband John, a labourer (71C).
1881 No occupation, 10 Pinnell Street, St Philip’s parish (48), living with her husband, John, labourer (81C).

 

POWELL Sarah

Born c1891 in Bristol (11C).

1911 Printing transferer, pottery, visiting 16 Grove Park Terrace, Fishponds (20) (11C).

 

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