Archaeology - Borderware before 1700
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The topic of Borderware has become a major topic, so this page has been reorganised to become the index for the subject. Unless your contribution is very short, please make links to your contribution from this page. Thanks, Richard Johnston, wikimaster Click here to contact Richard Johnston
Introduction and Overview
Why is Borderware so important?
Border ware Potteries by Jacqui Pearce, Museum of London, Lecture at Yateley 17 May 2007
Pots and Potters in Tudor Hampshire by Jacqui Pearce - new book 2007
The Blackwater Valley Potteries by Don Ridgers
Surrey Heath & the Borderware Industry By Richard Shegog
Sources of the Potter's Clay By Peter Tipton
Pottery Parishes
Potter Families
Potters' Biographies
John Monger, working 1544, Potter, Ash
John Marner alias Rogers, died 1580, Glover, Farnham
Richard Wright, died 1582, Potter, Farnborough
Richard Dee, died 1593, Potter, Lambeth
Robert Wright, died 1596, Potter, Cove
John Monger, will proved 1605, Potter, Ash
Herman Reynolds, died 1609, Potter, Farnborough
Henry Pullen, died 1616, Potter, Farnborough
John Durgate, died 1622, Potter, Cove
John Barum, died 1632, Cupmaker, Yateley
Robert Hall, died 1633, Potter, Cove
Thomas Reynolds, died 1636, Cove
Robert Gunner, died 1637, Potter, Frimley
John Milkton, died 1638, Potter, Farnborough
William Geale, died 1639, "the King's Cupmaker", Yateley
George Watts, will proved 1640, Potter, Ash
Richard Edsall, died 1641, Potter, Cove
Richard Taylor, died 1647, Potter, Cove
John Rogers alias Marner, died 1648, Farnborough
John Cantrill, died 1651, Frimley
Richard Trigg, died 1656, Potter, Hawley
Benjamin Monger, will proved 1661, Potter, Ash
Robert Hazell, died 1663, Potter, Cove
Richard Dorey, died 1663, Potter, Cove
Richard Edmead, will proved 1687, Chobham
Other Primary Sources
Wills, Inventories & Probate Accounts
Parish Registers
Taxation Records before 1688
Manorial Records
Comments (1)
Anonymous said
at 4:56 pm on Aug 20, 2006
In Richard Shegog’s article on the Borderware Industry, under the heading ‘A Potter’s biography’ he mentions John Smith, the son of William Smith and the likelihood of him being the John Smith, Potter of Frimley. In this context, there is a companion book to ‘William Smith, Potter and Farmer’ entitled ‘A Farmer’s Life’. This is written in the same anecdotal style by George Sturt, who was William Smith’s grandson and John Smith’s nephew. The book outlines the life of John Smith and says that despite learning the trade of a potter, he utterly disliked the industry. It becomes apparent from the book that after working out the tenancy of the farm in Farnborough, (confirmed in the 1881 census), he spent the remainder of his life as a dairy farmer living in Frimley, possibly at Mytchett Farm. The book also infers that there were a number of John Smiths in the vicinity. ‘A Farmer’s Life was originally published in 1922 as a limited edition under George Sturt’s pseudonym George Bourne. A facsimile of the original was published by Caliban Books in 1979.
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