Some of the following information is taken from Evans 1981 and Williams 1932.
Born in 1770 in Derby, the father of William Henry Pardoe.
| 1770 | 3 Jul. Born in Derby. |
| 1780s | Apprenticed at the Derby (Nottingham Road) porcelain factory. |
He later moved to Worcester and then to Swansea.
| 1795-1809 | Painted creamware at Swansea. |
| 1809-11 | China enameller (and from 1810 china enameller and gilder, wholesale and retail), Under the Bank, St Augustine’s parish (MD). Pountney (1920, 116) states that he took the pieces of china to the Temple Pottery to be fired. |
| 1811 | He exported earthenware to Jamaica (PB-EXP). |
| 1812-16 | China enameller (and from 1813 china and glass enameller and gilder), 28 Bath Street (MD). |
| 1820-22 | Glass stainer (MD). |
| 1819-22 | He managed the Nantgarw porcelain works for William Weston Young (Williams 1932, 109-11). |
| 1821 | He went to Nantgarw. |
| 1823 | He died in Nantgarw. |
| 1849 | 20 Nov. Noted as a china painter when his son, Henry Allan Pardoe, a pipe maker, of Easton Terrace, St Philip’s parish married Ann George (HTPR). |
| Children: Jenny, bapt May 1799 (Swansea), Lewis, bapt April 1801 (Swansea), William Henry, bapt Apr 1804 (Swansea), Thomas, bapt Feb 1807 (Swansea), Emena, bapt Feb 1807 (Swansea), Charles, bapt Nov 1812 (Swansea) |