Charles Thomas Cockson

COCKSON, Charles Thomas (1838-1900), pottery manufacturer, Cobridge.

Charles Thomas Cockson was born May 31, 1838 in Alrewas, Yoxall, Staffordshire, U.K.

In the 1851 census  Charles Thomas Cockson, 13 years of age was listed as a china painter as occupation.  His father William was listed as a potter. 

Charles Thomas Cockson worked as a china painter in Cobridge and Liverpool before emigrating to the U.S.A in 1870 with his wife and two oldest children. He worked the Globe Pottery in Cobridge along with his father.

He was given title to a homestead in Polk County, Nebraska in 1880. While enroute to visit family, he caught pneumonia and died in London on June 5, 1900 where he lies in St. Pancras cemetery.

He and Lucy had one daughter and four sons. In 1865 his first child was born in Liverpool, England. 

Charles Thomas Cockson

Watercolor painting done by Charles Cockson done on school type ruled tablet paper.   What can't be seen in the small picture is the exquisite detail of the china painter's hand on things like the tail feathers on the ducks and the swan in the lower right hand corner.

 

 

Lucy Ann Eaton, daughter of police officer John Eaton of Burslem, Staffordshire, U.K. was born March 8, 1837 and married Charles Thomas Oct. 8 1864 in Cobridge, Staffordshire, U.K. They had a son and daughter before establishing a home in Nebraska, U.S. and three more sons while living in Nebraska. Lucy died April 14, 1909 and is buried in St. Bonaventure cemetery in Columbus, Nebraska, U.S.A.

Lucy Ann Cockson (nee Eaton)

Sources: Jewitt's Ceramic history of Great Britian 1800-1900, 1851 census, Great grandson Harold Cockson hfcocks@megavision.com