Pottery, Brick & Tile Manufacturing History
1760 Deeds of Coxhow Manor bought by John Burdon mention lands belonging to Samuel Lammas
1765 26 Dec birth of Ann daughter to Samuel Lammas( potter), died 1772
Before 1769 Coxhoe Pottery was owned by Lammas Tax Assessment Records
1772 27 April burial of Ann daughter of Samuel Lammas, Coxhoe Pottery
1777 1 July burial of John, son of Samuel Lammas, Coxhoe Pottery
1787-1792 Samuel Lammas – Tax Assessment for Coxhoe
1793 24 Feb burial of Samuel Lammas
1828 Peter Harwood earthenware manufacturer at Cornforth Pottery
Joseph Lammas, earthenware manufacturer, Cornforth
David Birkett was a brick & tile-maker in the Tile Sheds, Cornforth. He died 1851
1828-1832 Thomas Harwood manufacturing earthenware at Coxhoe Pottery
1835 Lammas and Birkett leased land at Parkhill
1845 Lammas, Joseph Coxhoe, potter, farmer 1/1845/L2; 2/53 p355-356 will
1847 p246-2545 June 1847 registered copy of will; David BIRKETT, tile-maker, ofCoxhoeTile Sheds then of Hett in the County of Durham. Died 25 February 1851 with registered copy of codicil, 16 September 1850, estate value £2,000
1851 Ralph Carnaby employed 8 men & 1 boy res at Cornforth Villa 1851, 1861 census. Youngest Chd b.
Kelloe 1848
Thomas Birkett farmer and tile maker, Cornforth Tilery
1855 Mary Lammas leased the pottery to William Bell who made Brown Earthenware (Durham Palace
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William Rowe tobacco pipe maker, Blackgate
1856 Thomas Birkett of Crow Trees Tile Works
William Field jun. Cornforth & Coxhoe Brick Works
1858 William Cowburn, brick and tile manufacturer
Ralf Carnaby agent to West Hetton Colliery residing Cornforth Villa
Harrison Rowe, tobacco pipe manufacturer, Cornforth Pottery
1864 Accident at Carnaby’s Brick Yard
Thomas Casterling, a potter at Coxhoe Pottery (in graveyard)
William Field in Cow Close
J Steele, earthenware dealer
John Armstrong, earthenware dealer
1868 Thomas Birkett, farmer & tile maker, Cornforth Tilery
Mary Lammas, earthenware manufacturer & farmer in the Pottery
John Rowe tobacco pipe maker, Pottery
1870 21 May Tom Barker wins handball game and becomes World Champion Fives Player. Uses his winnings to buy a brickyard.
1879 Robert Rutter in Clarence Villa Hotel
1881 William Booth is the Occupier, William Cowburn the proprietor of the Brick Yard
Thomas Robinson res Blackgate, master potter employing 3 men, 2 women, 3 boys.
1890 William Booth & Luke Hall are brickmakers
John & Thomas Robinson are earthenware dealers at Coxhoe Pottery
David Birkett of Crow Tree Tile Sheds
1891 Thomas Robinson (son of Joseph Robinson a potter from Norton)res Cow Close-earthenware dealer & assist Overseer
1894 Booth, William & Hall brickmakers
John & Thomas Robinson are earthenware dealers at Coxhoe Pottery
1898 William Booth & Luke Hall are brickmakers
John & Thomas Robinson are earthenware dealers at Coxhoe Pottery
Fleetham vict of Clarence Hotel
After 1901 Tom Barker opens a brickyard opposite the Kicking Cuddy. It closed in 1914
1902 Thomas Robinson, wholesale earthernware dealer
1906 Thomas Robinson, wholesale earthernware dealer
1910 Thomas Robinson, wholesale earthernware dealer
1914 Nelson Digby & Son, Slate merchants, Blackgate
Thomas Lewis Robinson, wholesale earthernware dealer, Post Office
1920 Thomas L Robinson,( son of Thomas) wholesale earthernware dealer & PO
1911 Luke Hall is a Brick & Tile Maker at Coxhoe Pottery
Thomas Barker, brick maker residing at Prospect Place
1851 Coxhoe Colliery – South Kelloe Coal Company Proprietors
1855 Matthew Richardson, brewer of Coxhoe Lane End
Thomas Scott, brewer of Coxhoe Station
Thomas Gates, beer retailer
Martin Turnbull , Ironfounder
Crowtrees Colliery Company of Heugh Hall, Bowburn & West Hetton
East Hetton Colliery Company of East Hetton
South Kelloe & Coxhoe Colliery Company
1856 Cuthbert Allison, brewer and maltster, East Hetton
1890 John & Joseph Bell, Limeburners