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The Degg Teapot
« on: Thursday 12 May 22 05:04 BST (UK) »
Funny title for me to ask for help on a ancestral website. Actually I'm trying to find a certain teapot which on it's base has "M. Degg Mar., 1762" and inside the lid it has "M.D. Uttoxeter". The teapot is impressed by it's maker TURNER who was producing at Lane End (Now Longton).
I am wanting to trace down the Degg family to see if it may still be in their possession.

So it was made in 1762 and last known of in 1901.
This teapot has a satirical design on it probably specially made for M.Degg whom I expect would have been from a well to do family possibly from Uttoxeter.

My search of museums have also failed to find it.
Staffordshire: Turner, Emery, Hyde & Markland
Lancashire: Stirrup, Cloweth
London: Fountain,
Devon: Devonshire, Webb
Stirling: Wingate, 
Australia: Fountain, Turner, Solah, Paskins, Brookfield, Cowle, Trondsen

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Re: The Degg Teapot
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 May 22 06:45 BST (UK) »
ADegge on Thursday 17 February 2022 started a link on Rootschat Staffordshire re Degge family in Stramshall/Uttoxeter from 1500’s to 1700’s.

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Re: The Degg Teapot
« Reply #2 on: Friday 13 May 22 02:35 BST (UK) »
I've just discovered that in 1901 the teapot was owned by Mr. A. E. Chavasse, of The Avenue, Stone,
Staffs.
Instead this will be the best family to try to contact. Do we have any idea on how I should do this?
Staffordshire: Turner, Emery, Hyde & Markland
Lancashire: Stirrup, Cloweth
London: Fountain,
Devon: Devonshire, Webb
Stirling: Wingate, 
Australia: Fountain, Turner, Solah, Paskins, Brookfield, Cowle, Trondsen

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Re: The Degg Teapot
« Reply #3 on: Friday 13 May 22 03:10 BST (UK) »
Using FreeBMD I entered the surname with only the first initial A. No dates and open to all counties. Only one with the first name a and middle intial E and that is 
Births December 1/4 :( 1866
CHAVASSE    Arthur E    Wolverhampton    vol 6b page 512
This appears to be his marriage
Marriages September 1/4 1895   
Chavaser    Arthur Edward       
Chavasse    Arthur Edward   
to either Mary Dickson or Mary Alice Healey
registration district Stoke T. vol 6b page 390

 Staffordshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1900 show tha he married Mary Dickson 11 July 1895. his address 29 Birch Terrace.



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Re: The Degg Teapot
« Reply #4 on: Friday 13 May 22 03:33 BST (UK) »
In the 1901 census RG13 piece 2610 folio 40 page 18 he was living at 21 Lord Street Stoke Upon Trent and his occupation was Traveller in Sanitary earthenware, On the same page is a Henry Cotton who is a Tile and sanitary manufacturer and the other males on the page seem to be in the same line of work.
There are sons Geoffrey D Chavasse age 2, Philip R age 1 and a cook and nurse. There older son Albert Cuthbert age 4 is with his maternal grandparents.
Geoffrey Dickson Chavasse relocates to Scotland sometime after WW1 and died there in 1968.
Arthur Cuthbert died in 1929
Philip Raymond Chavasse died in 1973.
Their names are unusual enough to follow heir children's marriages on FreeBMD