The James WILLIAMS mentioned below as the owner of the Patent Shot Company was my 3 x great uncle. His nephew, my twice great grandfather John COLES was employed by him as a millwright at his Cheese Lane premises and even after he sold the company to Sheldon Bush John COLES remained as their foreman for many years. Pat --- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:52 PM Subject: [B&S] St. Mary Redcliff Church, Patent Shot Manufactory,Blue Coat School. c.1853 > Bristol as our ancestors saw it, c.1853 <SNIP> > > On Redcliff Hill, nearly opposite, is the PATENT SHOT MANUFACTORY. The > discovery of making this shot is said to have arisen from a dream by Mrs. > Watts, wife of the original Patentee. She told her husband that she had > been engaged, whilst asleep, in making those diminutive globes, by > dropping > melted lead from a great height into a well of water beneath. The present > firm is "JAMES WILLIAMS AND PATENT SHOT COMPANY, LEAD SMELTERS AND > MANUFACTURERS." >> Josephine Jeremiah > http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >