Welcome
Links:The Pottery Museum & Art Gallery
The local history of Stoke on Trent
The General Register Office (GRO)
The British Library Newspaper Archive
The White Ironstone China Association
Flow Blue International Collectors
Staffordshire Fast Track History online
Primary Sources:
Edwards family Wills and related papers.
Edwards family Central Registration documents: Births, Marriages, Deaths (General Register Office).
Parish Registers (Stoke on Trent City Archives).
UK Census 1841/51/61/71/81 (The National Archives).
Certificate of the Swearing of Justices, October Sessions 1857 (Staffordshire Record Office).
Report of the Prison Chaplain (Staffordshire Record Office).
The Report of the Clerk of the Peace on the Committee of Visiting Justices of the Gaol Oct. Sessions 1857 (Staffordshire Record Office).
The Staffordshire Advertiser , 1838 – 1867 (Stoke on Trent City Archives).
The Sentinel, 1854 – 1867 (Stoke on Trent City Archives).
The London Gazette (British Newspaper Library).
The Times (British Newspaper Library).
The Morning Chronicle (British Newspaper Library).
Older Secondary Sources:
Simeon Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries (1829).
John Ward, The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent (1843).
White’s History, Gazettes & Directory of Staffordshire (1851).
S.S. Scriven, Report on Child Labour in the Potteries (1842).
James Greenwood, Low Life Deeps (1876).
Llewellyn Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain (1878).
An Old Potter (Charles Shaw), When I was a Child (1902).
Arnold Bennett, Anna of the Five Towns (1902).
S Smiles, Self Help (1859).
J. Ruskin, In Relation of Art to Morals; Lectures on Art. 3.(1870).
W. Scarratt, Old Times in the Potteries (1906).
Modern Secondary Sources:
Louise Richardson, Edward and George Phillps’ Pottery at Longport (TCC Bulletin 11).
G.A. Godden, Godden’s Guide to Ironstone, Stone & Granite Wares (1999).
J. L. & B. Hammond, The Bleak Age (1934).
J. L. & B. Hammond, The Town Labourer, 1760-1834 (1925).
J. F.C. Harrison, Early Victorian Britain, 1834 – 1851 (1988).
B. Inglis, Poverty and the Industrial Revolution (1972).
R Thame, Our Daily Bread (1973).
J. Uglow, The Lunar Men (2002).
B. Trinder, The Making of the Industrial Landscape (1982).
W.G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape (1955).
With thanks to the staff at:
Staffordshire Record Office
Stoke on Trent City Archives
The Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke on Trent
The Pottery & Art Museum, Stoke on Trent
With special thanks to Ernie and Bev Dieringer and to Jane Diemer of the White Ironstone China Association for their invaluable support.
Finally, it is with great pride that I thank my brother, Mike Holdoway, for designing and constructing the James-Edwards.info web site and Steve Holdoway for his help in setting up the Forum and for agreeing to host this web site.