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Bryan.
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1938 - 2006
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Hi bagpuss
If you Google...you should find something there.
Bryan
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Brownell...Sheffield. Rodgers....Sheffield Harper...Great Barford,Beds. Hull...Roxton,Beds Wostenholme,Sheffield, Elliot, Baslow,Derbyshire Duke, Birmingham.....Sheffield Palmer, Nottingham....Holbeach Hall,Nottingham     Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Lloydy
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Great Grandfather John Lewis
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This site may have some information
http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/d_collections.asp
or the Brosely Local History Society
http://www.broseley.org.uk/
China: Caughley and Coalport
As well as common domestic pottery Broseley became famous for the production of fine porcelains with blue and white decoration. The earliest china factory was located at Caughley at the end of Pound Lane, where a pottery had been working since at least 1750 producing course and slip wares .
In 1772 Thomas Turner came from Worcester to run the factory where he experimented with new types of fabric and decoration. By 1775 he was producing porcelain. John Rose left Caughley in the 1790's and, with others, set up a pottery on land then being developed on the north bank of the river at Coalport. This venture developed into the Coalport China Works, famed for its output of highly decorative table and ornamental ware. The Caughley works was eventually taken over by the Coalport Company in 1799, probably because of the ill health of Turner . In 1821 the works were dismantled and the materials re-used at Coalport. The site was opencast for coal in 1964 destroying any archaeological remains, however there are remains of the saggar works which were located in a field just to the south of the works.
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The fantastic restoration and colour of my Avatar picture was done by Rootschatter PolldollAshton, Beaton/Betton, Bennett, Breese/Breeze, Crisp, Chandler, Challenor/Challinor, Crisp, Davies, Hudson, James, Jarman, Jenkins, Jones, Lewis, Mills, Owen, Owens, Richards, Simon & Trow - My Welsh ancestors from Montgomeryshire.
Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Dizzy Escape
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Hello, Sue. Perhaps your ancestor was an employer of some of my ancestors who, in the 1851 & 61 Broseley Censuses, are variously listed as 'china potter mould maker', 'transferer to china printer' and 'china ground layers assistant'. The family lived in Broseley but I suspect that they were employed with the majority of pottery workers over at Jackfield. It's only a mile or so's walk over the hill. The Jackfield works deserve a visit - I went there last summer and it's fascinating.
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Shropshire: Cleobury; Hotchkiss; Glover; Oswell
Berkshire: Cheeseman; Monger; Hussey
Montgomeryshire & Merionethshire: Disley
Anglesey & Denbighshire: Hughes, Davies
Flintshire: Hooson
Hertfordshire: Woodcock;
Yorkshire: Rich, Goodlad, Hargreaves
Essex: Stace; Hummerstone
Wiltshire: Pike
Kent: Jones
Devon: Hamlyn
London: Egan, Dixon, Steel, Planck, Debrauder, Rushan, Venile, Fairfax
Surrey: Songhurst, Knight, Street, Sayars
Suffolk: Howe, Spark, Gridley, Bennitt
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