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Joseph and Ellen had eleven children-

William, born 1816,
Elias born 1817,
John, born 1818,
Mary Anne, born 1820,
Joseph, born 1822,
Eliza, born 1824,
James George, born1826,
Elias, born 1828,
Henry Charles, born 1829,
Margaret Ellen, born1833
Tabitha, born 1835.

 

ELIZA b.1824 Eliza is described as a milliner in the 1841 census. She married Samuel Wood, the son of Ambrose Wood, master potter, who lived opposite the Hawley residence in Waterloo Road, Burslem. Her son was Ambrose Wood, tile merchant and she also had three daughters, Anne, Mary and Margaret. Mary’s son was Gilbert Ledward, a famous sculptor and Margaret’s son was Sidney Tushingham recognised in the art world for his etchings.

JAMES GEORGE b.1826 James George is described in the 1841 census as a potter, aged fifteen, living in Waterloo Road, Burslem, presumably learning his trade in his father’s factory as did his brothers. By 1851 he had moved to Bristol, living at 2 Water Lane between 1851 and1855 and in Stapleton Road between 1857 and 1858. He appears initially to have moved to the area as a commercial traveller having connections with the Bristol Pottery and the Cornwallis pottery. In 1875 he is described as a redware manufacturer at Temple Backs, Bristol. In 1883 the pottery is listed as the Temple Stoneware Pottery and this business continued until1901.  There was a separate business listed in 1883, Hawley and Son, tobacco pipe manufacturers, also at Temple Backs. In the 1881 census he is living at 18 Somerset Square in Bedminster with his wife Maria and eleven children. A number of his children trained as potters and in the1901 census, his son Joseph is still in Bedminster, described as an earthenware manufacturer. His daughter Eliza, born 1858, is believed to have emigrated to Canada. Her son Robert Hawley Gurd won the Military Medal with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps in the First World War. James George died in June 1888 aged sixty two.

ELIAS b.1828 Joseph’s first child named Elias seems to have died young as he named a second son Elias, born in 1828. In the 1841 census, Elias was living with his parents, described as a potter aged thirteen. By 1861 he was a Potter’s Manager in Longton, living at 8, Anchor Road. In 1849 he had married Sarah Twigg and they had two daughters, Sarah Ellen and Maria Twigg. In 1871 they were living at 5, Belgrave Road, Longton. Elias became a pottery salesman and sadly died in Barnsley in 1877 aged just forty nine.

TABITHA b.1835  Tabitha was Joseph’s youngest child born in 1835. She was a schoolmistress and married Richard Heath an ironfounder from Hanley in 1859.In 1861 they lived next door to Joseph at Wheatly Bank Cottage, Bucknall New Road. Tabitha had three children, Annie, Sarah and Ellen. By 1871 Sarah, aged 17 was living with her uncle in Liverpool and Ellen, aged 9 was living with her Grandmother, Ellen Hawley in Hanley. Something must have befallen Tabitha, her husband and Annie as they all disappear from the records.

 

HENRY CHARLES   b.1829 Henry Charles was Joseph’s ninth child. He also was a potter aged eleven in the 1841 census, again presumably learning the trade with his father. He married Rachel Cartwright, the daughter of Richard Cartwright who had moved from Burslem to Liverpool to set up business as a china dealer. Henry joined his father-in-law, initially as a shopman and eventually took over the business himself. Richard Cartwright’s other daughter, a spinster, continued to live with them. Henry did not have any children and in the 1860’s was joined by his nephew, William Elias Hawley, the son of Henry’s eldest brother, William. The family was also joined by Sarah Heath, the daughter of Henry’s sister, Tabitha. By 1881 William Elias was a partner in the china merchant business with his uncle.

 

LIVERPOOL 1926
From L-R:
Coralie Hawley; Anne Hawley; Douglas Hawley; Vernon Ashcroft-Hawley; William Elias Hawley

 

 

William Elias married Anne and they had one son, William who continued to run the business and died in the 1950s. Henry Charles died in March 1896.

WILLIAM b.1816 William was the eldest of Joseph’s eleven children. In 1839 he married Sarah Mansfield in St John’s church, Burslem and on their marriage certificate William is described as a potter, presumably at that time in his father’s manufactory. By 1861 he had taken on an administrative role as a Potters Clerk and was a Writing Clerk at the time of his death. From the 1850s William and his family lived at Cauldon Place in Shelton.  William continued the family involvement in the Methodist New Connection and was the Secretary Steward for the Bethesda Chapel in Hanley for over thirty years. In this capacity he was responsible for all administrative requirements of the chapel including taking minutes at the Leaders meetings. The Leaders minute book for this period is in the Stoke-on-Trent Archives in Hanley and William’s neat handwriting fills the book other than the last few pages where the writing suddenly changes for the first meeting after his death. William died suddenly on the night of 25th February 1876. In the early winter he had suffered from bronchitis but he had now recovered from this and on the day of his death was more active and cheerful than usual. He died peacefully in his sleep of a heart attack, much to the shock of his family.    The respect in which he was held is shown by a resolution of the Bethesda Chapel Leaders Meeting on March 21st:  “The meeting desires to place on record the sense of great loss which it has sustained in the death of our beloved brother, the late Mr William Hawley, who, for upwards of thirty years worthily filled the office of Secretary steward of Bethesda Society and its high estimate of the fidelity and efficiency with which for so long a time he discharged the duties of that office. It cheerfully bears testimony to the invariable gentleness and kindness of his spirit and to the unobtrusive yet earnest piety which distinguished him and which won for him universal esteem. But while regretfully we miss his general presence in our assemblies on earth we rejoice in the belief that through the infinite merits of that saviour he loved so well, our brother has joined the “general assembly and church of the firstborn above. This meeting would also express its condolences with Mrs Hawley and her family under the sudden and great bereavement they have been called upon to sustain respectfully assuring them of its deepest Christian sympathy and praying that the God of all grace may of his abundant mercy minister to them the richest consolation of divine love and grant unto them at last a glorious reunion in heaven.”

 
Bethesda Methodist Chapel
c. 1893

William & Sarah's children

William recorded the birth of his children in a large family Bible, still owned by the Hawley family. Of those named a number died young but four children survived him, Joseph Henry, William Elias, Rachel Ellen and Sarah Eliza.

William Elias, as described above, moved to Liverpool and towards the end of her life Rachel Ellen, his sister, a spinster lived at his residence, dying there in September 1893.
Sarah Eliza continued living in the Potteries until her death in the 1930s.

 

His eldest son Joseph Henry was born in 1841 and by the age of nineteen was a Leader in the Bethesda Chapel. JOSEPH HENRY HAWLEY  1841-1918    In 1861 he was a warehouseman and later in life was a commercial clerk with Coghills in Newcastle. He married Elizabeth Swinnerton of the Shut Lane branch of that family. Her father was a crate maker in Hanley and her family had been linked to the Bethesda Chapel since her grandfather John Swinnerton was a signatory on the “Indenture Declaring a Trust of a Chapel called Bethesda” on 31st August 1803. Elizabeth’s ancestry can be traced directly to Stephen de Swinnerton in 1276. John Swinnerton's signature                  on the Trust Indenture Joseph and Elizabeth lived in Lord Street, Basford, “The Laurels”, Sidmouth Avenue, Newcastle and later in Northcote Place. Joseph died on Christmas day 1918 of a heart attack and Elizabeth lived on until 1930. They had five children, William, Harry, Douglas, Constance and Edith. A brief summary of their lives follows below.

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