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Note for:   Robert Adams,   1599 - 1654         Index

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     of Longcroft etc.

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Note for:   John Adams,   1624 - 1687         Index

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     of Brick House, Burslem etc. Built the Brick House Works in 1657.

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Note for:   John Adams,   1652 - 1717         Index

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     of Brick House, etc.

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Note for:   Ralph Adams,   1687 - 1766         Index

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     of Brick House, etc.

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Note for:   John Adams,   1716 - 1757         Index

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     of Brick House, etc.

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Note for:   William Adams,   1748 - 1831         Index

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     of Brick House and Cobridge. He, and his sons who died without issue, were succeeded as master potters by Richard Adams of Cobridge 1739-1811 and his son William 1772-1829.

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Note for:   Margaret Adams,   ABT 1624 -          Index

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     "John's sister Margaret Adams was married in 1649 to Thomas Leigh of Burslem... He had a daughter, Mary, who in 1684 married Thomas Wedgwood, Master Potter, of the Churchyard House, Burslem, and thus became the grandmother of the great Josiah Wedgwood".p8-9, Ten Generations of a Potting Family, by Robert Nichols.

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Note for:   Thomas Leigh,   ABT 1624 -          Index

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     of Burslem. Belonged to "good old yeoman family" and was uncle to Molly Leigh, the Burslem Witch.

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Note for:   Thomas Wedgwood,   ABT 1649 -          Index

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     Thomas Wedgwood II. Master Potter of Churchyard House, Burslem.

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Note for:   Thomas Wedgwood,   1685 - 1739         Index

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     Thomas Wedgwood III. Master Potter of Churchyard Works, Burslem.

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Note for:   Josiah Wedgwood,   1730 - 1795         Index

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     The great Master Potter.

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Note for:   Erasmus Darwin,   1731 - 1802         Index

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     Physician, polymath and founder of the Lunar Society. Erasmus attended James Brindley prior to his death at Turnhurst Hall in 1772.

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Note for:   Charles Robert Darwin,   1809 - 1882         Index

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     Naturalist and author of "On the Origin of Species (by means of Natural Selection)", published 1859.

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Note for:   Donald Malcolm Pottinger,   1910 - ABT 1982         Index

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     Captured by Japanese in WWII and survived working on the infamous Burma Railway. Was so badly malnourished he is believed to have been taken to Australia after the war to recuperate before being transported home to his family.

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Note for:   Living Scanovapoulou,   ABT 1938 -          Index

Alias:   /Rosemary/