See the Potteries List section for the Counterslip Pottery.
The Pottery had previously been run by Joseph and William Read.
| 1783-85 | Thomas Patience and Joseph Gadd ran the Counterslip Pottery, trading as Patience and Gadd. |
Following Thomas Patience’s death in December 1785, Joseph Gadd ran the Counterslip Pottery alone.
| 1725 | 31 Oct. Thomas, son of Thomas Patience, lighterman, baptised (RPR). |
| 1747 | 26 Jun. He became a free potter, as he was the son of Thomas Patience, lighterman (F, G). |
| 1748 | 29 Dec. Thomas Patience married Sarah Cantle (RPR). |
| 1752 | A Thomas Patience was landlord of the Punch Bowl alehouse in St Mary Redcliffe parish (McGrath & Williams 1979, 34). |
| 1753 | 22 Jan. Probably the Thomas Patience who was to appear with William Chatterton at the next General Quarter Session to answer for an assault on William and Sarah Lewis (T). |
| 1754 | Potter, St Mary Redcliffe parish (P). |
| 1757 | He stood surety of £5 for Thomas Watkins to keep an alehouse in St Stephen’s parish (AKL). |
| 1757 | Thomas Taylor II, potter, and John Quarman, potter, stood surety of £5 each for Thomas Patience to keep an alehouse in St Mary Redcliffe parish (AKL). |
| 1759 | 16 Jul. Margaret Avery and others were proposed purchasers of a property on Redcliffe Hill comprising a tenement in the possession of Thomas Patience, victualler, being part of the lands of Queen Elizabeth Hospital (PBk). |
| 1762 | John Harwell, potter, stood surety for Thomas Patience to keep an alehouse in Temple parish (AKL). |
| 1764 | A Thomas Patience of Temple Street signed a petition concerning the state of the common sewer called the Law Ditch (BRO Wooden Box 1764 Bundle 2 No.1). |
| 1764 | Thomas Patience was the landlord of the Cross Keys alehouse in Temple Street (BRO Wooden Box 1764 Bundle 11 No.2). |
| 1765 | William Chatterton, potter, stood surety of £5 for Thomas Patience to keep an alehouse in St Mary Redcliffe parish (AKL). |
| 1766 | Richard Phillips, potter, stood surety of £5 for Thomas Patience to keep an alehouse in Temple parish (AKL). |
| 1766 | 27 May. A potter of Temple parish he was bondsman to a licence granted to William Barber, maltster (M). |
| 1769 | 3 Nov. He stood surety of £10 for the appearance of Richard Pook, gentleman, at the next Sessions to answer for an assault (T). |
| 1771 | 13 Jan. Susannah Patience buried (RPR). |
| 1771 | 19 Jan. ‘Yesterday fennight died the wife of Mr Patience at the Cross Keys in Temple Street’ (FFJ). |
| 1771 | 16 Dec. A potter and widower of Temple parish he was granted a licence to marry Ann Hayes of St Mary Redcliffe parish at St Mary Redcliffe (M). |
| 1772 | 27 Dec. Thomas Patience of Temple parish, married Ann Hayes (RPR). |
| 1773 | 22 Sep. A potter of Temple parish, he was bondsman to a licence granted to Joseph Kelston, accountant (M). |
| 1774 | Potter, Temple parish (P). |
| 1775 | Potter and victualler, 139 Temple Street, Cross Keys Public House (SD). |
| 1781 | Potter, Temple parish (P). |
| 1785 | Patience and Gadd, Potters, Counterslip (BBD). Patience was in partnership with Joseph Gadd. |
| 1785 | 17 Dec. ‘Yesterday fe’nnight died Mr Patience, at the sign of the Cross-Keys in Temple Street’ (BMBJ). |
| 1793 | 15 Apr. He was described as deceased when his son, Edward, was apprenticed to Joseph Gadd, potter (A, Ao). |
| 1796 | 10 Sep. ‘Lately was married at Newton, near Bath, Miss Ann Patience, daughter of Mrs Patience, at the Cross Keys, Temple Street’ (BMBJ). |
| 1810 | 11 Aug. ‘Died Tuesday (7th) … at her house in Queen-square, Bath, Mrs Patience, widow of Mr. Thomas Patience, potter, of this city, and mother of Mrs Booth, Westgate-street, Bath’ (FFJ). |
| Apprentice: With wife Ann: Charles Price, 4 Oct 1785 (A, Ao)-9 Dec 1796 (F) |
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| Rate and tax book entries: Property 1 25 Mar 1750 Thos Patience Poor Redcliffe St (SMR-W) 6 Aug 1751 Thomas Patience Redcliffe St (SMR-H) 29 Sep 1755-29 Sep 1758] ‘Thos Patience & t’ents Redcliffe St’ (SMR-Wa)Property 2 29 Sep 1755-29 Sep 1757 Thomas Patience jnr Redcliffe Hill (SMR-Wa) [29 Sep 1758-29 Sep 1761] Thomas Patience Redcliffe Hill and Pit (SMR-W,Wa) The property then passed to Michael Edkins, potter. Property 3 |
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| Children: Wife Susannah: Thomas, bapt 16 Jul 1750 (RPR) Joseph, bapt 14 Nov 1751, buried 9 Aug 1754 (RPR), Mary, bapt 14 Nov 1751 (RPR), Thomas, bapt 7 Jun 1753, buried 16 Jul 1756 (RPR), James, bapt 30 Sep 1754, buried 21 Apr 1756 (RPR), Susannah, bapt 31 Aug 1757 (RPR), Joseph, bapt 24 Sep 1760, buried 17 Oct 1760 (RPR), Michael, bapt 24 Sep 1760, buried 14 Oct 1766 (RPR). Wife Ann: Thomas, bapt 18 Dec 1775 (TPR), Betty, bapt 9 Mar 1777 (TPR), George, bapt 4 May 1781 (TPR), Edward, apprenticed 15 Apr 1793 (A), Ann, married Sep 1796 (BMBJ) |