Project Info: Earthenware Dealers and hawkers of pots

[Trees]

Was he James from Bellaghy County Londonderry? I have sent you an PM James was my husbands gt gt grandfather and was a shoemaker
fingers crossed

[tomwdcraftr]

Thanks Trees!!  I replied to your private message. My Irish shoemaker was John McMullen married at Downpatrick 1844.

However, one of my closest matches for DNA was a McMullen from County Londonderry, so this could be very interesting to pursue.

Thanks!!  Tom McMillan

[king otg]

Potters and earthenware dealers are to be found all over northern England of the past. The difference between gipsy and gorgio potters is revealed in their wedding certificates because each tended to marry his own kind. I have collected thousands of parish register entries referring to potters and earthenware dealers. If you would like me to post some of them please select a surname. I will include the other recorded occupations so that you can see what the proportions were.

All the traditional traveller families of the north have similar statistics with just over half the entries referring to pottery and many of the others being hawkers who may well have sold pottery.

TL

[Trees]

The names I am interested in are Whitehouse,Grimmerd,Salmon and Randle but these are midlanders so I'm not sure if they would appear on your North Of England list 

[Bilge]

If your still intrested in these people I have Billingham's listed as Licenced Earthenware Hawker/Dealer on several of the census (1881 1891) returns, and although the family are listed as living in a Caravan, they come from the Chain making Billingham's of the West Midlands area.

[vimira]

Hi King OTG,
Have you any with the name Mills, from the early 1800s, in Nottinghamshire & Lincolnshire, or general East Midlands counties areas? I'd be very grateful for your help

[king otg]

DBY Ashbourne bp29/6/1862 (b29/5) Annie Eliza d/o Joseph/Mary Ann MILLS, brazier of A
LIN Langtoft bp6/4/1841 Thomas s/o Robert/Susan MILLS, potter of Nottingham
NTS Aynho bp24/4/1755 Mary d/o Charles/Mary MILLS, travs
NTS Maidwell bp1/1/1756 Elizabeth d/o James/Elizabeth MILLS, trav
NTS Maidwell bp1/1/1756 John s/o James/Elizabeth MILLS, trav
BDF Maulden br25/1/1762 Elizabeth MILLS, a trav

[vimira]

Thanks very much for those refs. The Thomas s of Robert & Susan is my family, but I will look into the others

Vimira

[Wild Woman]

Wow... At a long shot I thought Id type in my Granda's Grandma's name Ive been relentlessly trying to trace my roots... She was Martha Lowther a grand lady (hawker) married to Tom Crickerd. Her Dad was Chucky Bob Lowther...(Charles Robert Lowther)  Martha and a lot of my family lived on Potters Lonning in Workington.. Was knocked down long before I was born.. I have a photograph of the grand lady and had the honour of meeting her daughter also Martha (My Grandads aunty) Who was also a grand lady  My Grandad speaks highly of Martha and says she was a lovely woman. Also sold fish. Our family also has a connection to the Millers of Whitehaven... We may be related