See the Potteries List section for the St Philip’s Pottery 7.
In 1815 there was a partnership between John Cole I and John Spokes I, trading as Cole and Spokes. This partnership seems to have ended with the Cole family carrying on trading (see St Philip’s Pottery 6) and John Spokes I establishing his own Pottery in 1816.
| 1816-47 | John Spokes I ran the St Philip’s Pottery 7.
He appears to have been in partnership with someone called Bourne in 1816 and the firm traded in that year only as Spokes & Bourne. It seems likely that he was in partnership with his son Samuel Spokes, from about 1844. |
Samuel Spokes, his son, ran the Pottery alone from 1848.
Born c1775 in Abingdon, Berkshire, the father of John T. Spokes I and Samuel Spokes (51C, JBPR).
| 1777 | 31 Jul. Probably the John Spokes, son of William and Mary Spokes, who was baptised at St Nicholas church, Abingdon (Ancestry website). |
| 1807 | 1 Nov. Probably the John and Mary Spokes who had their son Samuel baptised at St Mary’s church, Lambeth, London (Ancestry website). |
| 1815 | Coles & Spokes, brown stone potter, Avon Street (MD). |
| 1816 | Spokes & Bourne, stone ware pottery, Avon Street (MD). |
| 1817-47 | John Spokes, stone ware pottery, Avon Street (MD). |
| 1820-21 | Mary Spokes, potter, aged 40 years (presumably the wife of John Spokes I) (Methodist Class Book). |
| 1827 | 9 May. His son, William, was apprenticed to John Shelton, a wheelwright (A). |
| 1833 | Cheese Lane & Avon Street, Jno Spokes, Pottery £8; Bread Street, Jno Stokes, dwelling house £2 (BRO EP/A/47-St Philip’s Church Rates). |
| 1835 | Cheese Lane, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1836 | 19 May. An Act to alter the line of the Great Western Railway. Schedule of lands in St Philip and Jacob parish included: ‘Owner: John Spokes, Occupier: Himself, Tenement, garden, tobacco pipe manufactory and pottery’. |
| 1841 | Avon Street, St Philip’s parish (60), living with his wife Mary (60) born in Bristol (41C). |
| 1841 | Avon Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1847 | 24 May. Noted as a potter when his son John, a widower, of Boot Lane married Sarah Cool (JBPR). |
| 1851 | 1 Avon Street Pottery [between 21/22 Avon Street], St Philip’s parish (76), born Abingdon, Berkshire, living with his wife Mary (72) born in St James’s parish. Living at the same address as Samuel Spokes, formerly a potter (51C). |
| 1852 | Avon Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1854 | 15 Jan. Probably the John Spokes, aged 78, who was buried (PPR). |