Samuel Bevington (& Son)

Location and period of operation:

Samuel Bevington established the Swan Works in Elm Street (now Ratton Street), Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent as a Parian works.

• Samuel Bevington was variously described as 'artist', 'China figure maker', 'toy and ornament' manufacturer and 'gilder, lusterer and enameller'.

• In the trade directories he was recorded as "Samuel Bevington"; Samuel Bevington & Son" and "Bevington & Son" 

• The "& Son" was his son John Bevington who joined the business as a partner of the Elm Street Works c.1856 - he also carried on the works after his fathers retirement and death in 1863.

• Ambrose Bevington (another of Samuel's sons) set up in business on his own account and was not thought to have been in partnership with his father. However a notice in the London Gazette records the dissolution of a partnership between Samuel and Ambrose Bevington in January 1863. 

• Samuel Bevington died in November 1863.  

 

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London Gazette, February 6 1863 

notice of the dissolution of the partnership 
between Samuel and Ambrose Bevington

 

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Samuel Bevington operated three works:-

Swan Works, Elm Street, Hanley  1835-1863 (John Bevington continued these works after his fathers death in 1863)

Marsh Street, Hanley  c.1846-1863

10&12 Brunswick Street, Hanley c.1851-1863

on Samuel Bevington

more on the Bevington family of potters

advert in 1864 Jones trade directory

adverts kindly supplied by:
R.K. Henrywood "Staffordshire Potters, 1781-1900"

1851 census
33 Brunswick Street, Shelton
Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire, England

1861 census
Brunswick Street, Shelton, Hanley
Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire, England 

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