See the Potteries List section for the Westbury-on-Trym Pottery, St Philip’s Pottery 3 and the Temple Back Pottery 2.
Westbury-on-Trym Pottery
The Pottery had previously been run by Stephen Fricker.
| c1780-97 | Roger Yabbicom and his son, Henry Yabbicom I, were operating the Westbury-on-Trym Pottery. |
The church rates for Westbury show the Pottery was unoccupied after 1797 and Roger Yabbicom and Son had moved to the St Philip’s Pottery 3 in Avon Street around that date.
St Philip’s Pottery 3
It is possible that Roger Yabbicom and Son took over the Pottery previously occupied by William Maynard II.
| 1797-1810 | Roger Yabbicom and his son, Henry Yabbicom I, ran the St Philip’s Pottery 3. |
Roger Yabbicom died in 1810 and the Pottery was taken over by his son, Henry Yabbicom I.
Temple Back Pottery 2
| 1806-10 | Roger Yabbicom and his son, Henry Yabbicom I, ran the Temple Back Pottery 2. |
Roger Yabbicom died in 1810 and the Pottery was taken over by his son, Henry Yabbicom I.
The father of Henry Yabbicom I.
| 1755 | 25 Dec. Henry the son of Roger and Joan Yabbicom was baptised (WPR). |
| 1768 | 13 Jun. Joan Yabbicom was buried (WPR). |
| 1771 | 1 May. A potter of St Philip and Jacob parish, he was granted a licence to marry Martha Marman, widow, of Westbury-on-Trym, at St Philip and Jacob (M). |
| 1771 | He was tenant of the White Horse inn, which was close to the Westbury-on-Trym Pottery, and other land in Westbury owned by the Rev. Benjamin Hancock, and he continued paying rates on the properties until 1797 (BRO P/HTW/OP/1(c) and Gloucestershire Record Office Q/REL 1: land tax returns, Henbury Hundred, Westbury tithing) |
| 1772-73 | ‘Paid Roger Yabbicomb for halling several articles to the Church Houses’ (BRO P/HTW/ChW 1(a)). |
| 1783 | 6 Jun. Martha Yabbicom buried (WPR). |
| 1784 | 3 Apr. ‘Rec’d of Mr Roger Yabbicom & Son one years rent for the Claypits (late Stepn. Frickers) due Lady day 1784 … £5.5s’ (BRO AC/E37). |
| 1785 | Received from ‘Mr Roger Yabbicom & Son one years rent for the Claypits (late Stephn. Fricker)’ (Westbury-Ch). |
| 1788 | By 1788 the Yabbicom’s were paying rates on the Westbury-on-Trym Pottery (BRO EP/A/47). |
| 1792 | 29 Sep. The Pottery was described as being in the possession of Messrs Yabbicom and Son (BRO 21782, box 17, bundle 6). |
| 1794 | 24 Jun. The buildings at Burfield House included ‘a mansion house with a pothouse and pottery buildings’, the pothouse being occupied by Messrs. Yabbicom and Son (BRO 21782, box 17, bundle 6). |
| 1795 | Yabbicom & Son, sugar, chimney and garden pot manufactory, Westbury-on-Trym (MD). |
| 1796 | 18 May. An advertisement for the auction of Cote House and lands, Westbury-on-Trym, includes: ‘The following Lands let to Mr Yabbicom, Tenant at Will, at £50.8s per Annum No.24 Eight Acres; No.25 Six Acres; No.26 Six Acres; No.28 Detached Five Acres – Total 26 acres, 33 perches’ (Documents not in the BRO (no.12) xerox). |
| 1796-97 | The Westbury churchwardens bought chimney pots from the Yabbicoms (BRO P/HTW/ChW/1(a)). |
| 1797-98 | Yabbicom and Son, sugar, chimney and garden pot manufactory, Avon Street, Bristol. Residence: Westbury-on-Trym (MD). |
| 1800 | Yabbicom & Son, sugar, chimney and garden pot manufactory, Avon Street (MD). |
| 1801-05 | Yabbicom & Son, sugar, chimney & garden pot manufactory, Cheese Lane (MD). |
| 1802 | Property 16 on a Plan for Improving the Harbour of Bristol refers to: Owner: Jacob Selwood Riddle Tenant: Roger Yabbicom & Son (Gloucster Record Office Q/RUm 6 & 13). |
| 1806-09 | Yabbicom & Son, sugar, chimney and garden pot manufactory, St Philip’s & Temple Back (MD). |
| 1810 | 17 Mar. Roger Yabbicom buried (WPR).
Inscriptions from gravestones in the churchyard of Westbury-on-Trym church: |
| Rate book entries: All the entries are from the Westbury-on-Trym Church Rates (BRO P/HTW/OP 1(e)): Property 1: 1788-91 Prop: Mr Trehawke Pott House, etc. Occ: Roger Yabbicom. 1793-96 Prop: Jno. Morgan Pothouse, etc. Occ: Roger Yabbicom and SonProperty 2 1774-91 Prop: Mrs Hancock House and Land Occ: Roger Yabbicom 1793-96 Prop: Mrs Hancock House and Land Occ: Roger Yabbicom and Son Property 3: Property 4: Property 5: Property 6: |
|
| Children: Henry, bapt 25 Dec 1755 (WPR), Mary, bapt 25 Jun 1775 (WPR), Elizabeth, will 5 Apr 1827 (PRO Prob 11/1911) |