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What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« on: Thursday 12 April 18 13:36 BST (UK) »
I am wondering if anyone knows the occupation of Thomas SKETCHLEY of Coleorton in 1812?

It looks like Pot Carrier and if so I haven't as yet located a definition or explanation for what a Pot Carrier did and in what industry [perhaps Coal]?

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Re: What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 April 18 13:39 BST (UK) »
Pot carrier ?

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Re: What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 April 18 13:48 BST (UK) »
 Leicsteshire is not the most well known place for pottery,not to say there were no potteries there .
If he worked in a pottery he would carry high piles of unfired pots to the kilns and  possibly fired ones back.
Sometimes the pots were carried on the head.
Otherwise he could have worked in a public house,carrying pots(pint pots)of beer or empty ones, but that occupation was more usually called a potman.
See if there were potteries in Leicstershire.
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Re: What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 12 April 18 13:55 BST (UK) »
Thanks Viktoria.  :)

On the page that recorded Thomas's son Williams birth were other Pot Carrier's.

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Re: What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 12 April 18 16:01 BST (UK) »
This is interesting:  http://www.coleorton.org.uk/pottery.html

Carol

Added:  I haven't read all of the archaeological report, but on page 6 it states that the site 'was first leased for coalmine works prior to the change to the manufacture of pottery in 1835'.  If there were several 'pot carriers' in Coleorton in 1812, they weren't working in the pottery industry but could have been coal miners.
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Re: What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 12 April 18 23:10 BST (UK) »
It was not unusual for coal mines and "potbanks" to be linked. The act of mining often revealed useful quantities of workable clay.
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Re: What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« Reply #6 on: Friday 13 April 18 07:19 BST (UK) »
Pot carrier could also have to do with a foundry worker?
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Re: What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« Reply #7 on: Friday 13 April 18 07:34 BST (UK) »
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Re: What was Thomas SKETCHLEY's occupation in 1812 Coleorton, Leicstershire
« Reply #8 on: Friday 13 April 18 10:25 BST (UK) »
This is interesting:  http://www.coleorton.org.uk/pottery.html

Carol

Added:  I haven't read all of the archaeological report, but on page 6 it states that the site 'was first leased for coalmine works prior to the change to the manufacture of pottery in 1835'.  If there were several 'pot carriers' in Coleorton in 1812, they weren't working in the pottery industry but could have been coal miners.
Don`t know what happened to my reply-----but I was agreeing the pottery was too  late  for the census you are looking at.
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