See the Potteries List section for the Water Lane Pottery.
| c1774 | It appears that around this time he may have been in partnership with his brother, William Taylor I, in the Water Lane Pottery as they are mentioned together in a document of 1774. |
The son of Joseph Taylor I, he was the brother of William Taylor I (A).
| 1739 | 21 Nov. He was baptised, the son of Joseph Taylor, potter (RPR). |
| 1756 | 22 Jun. He was apprenticed to his father (A, Ao). |
| 1761 | 25 Feb. ‘Joseph Taylor of the parish of Temple in the City of Bristol, potter, aged 18 years’, was one of the lives on a lease between the Feoffees of Temple Church Lands and William White, carpenter (BRO Temple Ab 295). Also see below – 29 Sep 1790. |
| 1771 | 30 May. He was granted a licence to marry Jane Cooper of Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, at Mangotsfield (M). |
| 1771 | 8 Jun. ‘Monday was married at Mangotsfield, Mr Joseph Taylor, potter, of this City, to Miss Cooper, Niece of David Cooper, Esq., of Moorend’ (FFJ). |
| 1774 | 4 Jul. He was mentioned as occupying premises in Temple Backs with his brother, William Taylor (BG). |
| 1780 | 24 Feb. Probably the Mr Taylor mentioned when ‘Wednesday (23 Feb. 1780) died Capt. Taylor, in Great Garden, brother to Mr Taylor, potter of this city’ (BG). |
| 1790 | 29 Sep. ‘Joseph Taylor of the said City of Bristol, late potter but now Malster, aged about 48 years’ was one of the lives on a lease (BRO Temple Ab 346(5)). |