See the Potteries List section for the Redcross Street Pottery and the Baptist Mills Pottery.
For details see Joseph White II.
Born c1808 in Temple parish, possibly the son of Joseph White I and the father of James White II (41C).
| 1829-38 | J. (jnr)/Joseph and James White, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, potters for yellow ware (MD). |
| 1830 | 30 May. St Philip’s parish on the baptism of his daughter Mary Ann. Wife Sophia (PPR). |
| 1837 | Potter, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1837-43 | Possibly the James White living at 10 Great Ann Street, St Philip’s parish (MD). |
| 1839 | 2 Mar. James White of Baptist Mills, potter, leased 5 messuages with a room used as a chapel and 2 buildings called the Meeting House and the Charcoal House, a warehouse and a building used as a wash house (BRO 01788(3)). |
| 1839 | J & J White, Rich’s Buildings, Redcross Street, yellow ware and black tea-pot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1840 | White and Doubting, Redcross Street, yellow ware and black tea-pot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1840 | 20 May. James White borrowed £300 from Elizabeth Tew of Hillgrove Street, Bristol and in consideration of the loan he sold the property he had leased in 1839 (BRO 01788(8a)). |
| 1840 | 9 Jun. James White of St Philip’s parish, earthenware manufacturer, paid William Salmon, gentleman, £375 for all that plot of ground in Baptist Mills extending in front against the north-east side 78 feet and on the north-west side 54 feet and on the south-east side 43 feet, bounded on the north-east and south-east by a stone wall and on the north-west by other property belonging to James White. Also all those 7 houses called Henry Row together with outbuildings erected on the same plot (BRO 01788(10). |
| 1840-41 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and teapot manufacturers (MD). |
| 1841 | Potter, Millpond Street, St Philip’s parish (30), living with his wife Sophia (30) and son James (12) and servants Emma Saunders (15) and Elizabeth Carroll (15) (41C). |
| 1842-46 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham teapots, stone jug and gold lustre ware manufacturers (MD). |
| 1842 | 29 Sep. A conveyance of property in Baptist Mills. For details see Joseph White II. |
| 1844 | James White purchased land at Baptist Mills for £1,200 from George Frederick Peters and others (BRO 01788(15)). |
| 1845 | Rich’s Buildings, Joseph White (owner James White) House & Pottery £16 (Consolidated Rates). |
| 1846-51 | Rich’s Buildings, William White (owner James White) House & Pottery £26 [noted as void and owned by James York in 1852] (Consolidated Rates) |
| 1846 | Potter, Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1846 | 24 Jun. Conveyed to James White, potter, for £25, a piece of waste land containing 36 perches and all those ruinous buildings standing on part of the land occupied by the Bristol Brass and Copper Company at Baptist Mills. Bounded on the north by the River Frome, on the south and east by a brook and on the west by cottages and land belonging to Joseph White, the younger (BRO 01789(3). |
| 1847-52 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham tea pot, stone jug and tobacco pipe manufacturers (MD). |
| 1851 | Potter master employing 95 persons, Frome Villa, Lower Ashley Road, St Philip’s parish (43), living with his wife Sophia (43) born in Frampton [-on-Severn], Gloucestershire and servants Eliza Skidmore (20) born in St Philip’s parish and William Owen (21) born in Frampton, Gloucestershire (51C). |
| 1851 | 18 Jul. Lease of land near Prospect Place, Baptist Mills from Mr James White to Mr Thomas Shackell. Shackell owned nos. 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Prospect Place which lay on the south side of the millpond. White agreed to grant Shackell the south bank of the millpond lying opposite the houses (BRO 01789(5)). |
| 1851 | 12 Dec. Whereas James White is entitled to a mill, messuages and land, and mill tail, and Joseph White is entitled to land and the factory building, James conveys to Joseph a strip of land in exchange for Joseph making a culvert under his factory for drainage purposes and the culvert is granted to James (BRO 01789(6). |
| 1852 | Potter, Baptist Mills, St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1853-60 | Joseph (jnr) and James White, Baptist Mills, Egyptian black and Rockingham tea pot, stone jug and earthenware manufacturers (MD). |
| 1881 | Retired potter, Norwood, South Road, Westbury-on-Trym (73), living with his wife Amelia S. (62), born in Combe Down, Somerset, and Harriet Escott (41), ladies help, and Hester Gingell (28), general servant (81C). |
| 1882 | 3 Dec. A gentleman, he died at Norwood, South Road, Lower Redland Road. His will was proved by his wife Amelia Summerland White. Estate valued at £1,022.8s.2d (BRO 01789(11); PRO National Probate Calendar (Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966). |