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Giovanni Meli
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Giovanni Meli |
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| Giovanni Meli | wife: Jane Meli |
| sons:
4 - "Edward John Salvatore, Vincent, Leopoldo, + one other |
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| c.1815 | born in Palermo, Sicily |
| 1838 | came to England and originally worked in London. |
| c.1840 | Samuel Alcock invited him to Burslem, however Meli and Alcock had a disagreement and Meli moved to Stoke and he set up as a free lance modeller. |
| 1850 | GM was a founding member of the Stokeville Building Society. However he never lived at the housing development "The Villas" and he sold his share in 1853. Meli took out British naturalisation papers so that he could undertake the conveyance of property. |
| c.1852 (?1858) | Meli set up his own works around Glebe Street, Stoke - near the Stoke Town Hall |
| 1861 | At this time he was living at West Bank, Penkhull. |
| 1862 | Meli showed his parian ware at the 1862 exhibition. |
| 1865 | Known to have voted for the Conservative candidate, Beresford Hope in the 1865 election. |
| 1865 | Meli sold his Glebe Street Works to Robinson & Leadbeater |
| c. 1865 | Giovanni Meli returned to Italy with the intention of setting up a terra cotta works but he was unable to find suitable clay. |
| Meli emigrated to the USA and set up a factory in Chicago. |
Staffordshire Potteries that Meli worked for:-
Adams of Tunstall
Sir James Duke & Nephews
Copeland Garratt"By the early nineteenth century William Adams had expanded his business greatly. He had six factories producing – five at Stoke and one at Greenfield, besides two at Burslem let to John Wedgwood and Enoch Wood and Sons. Taking his sons into partnership the firm became William Adams and Sons with extensive overseas connections and they turned out every type of useful earthenware, hospital wares and stone ware, besides high grade dinner and tea services. In the 1840's they followed Copeland's lead in making 'Parian' ware figures modelled by Giovanni Meli and W. Beattie."
Sources: "People of the Potteries", Mazkowitz & Haggar - Encyclopedia of English Pottery & Porcelain.
24/08/2002