Thanks for the advice Graham Maybe I will return to the land of my ancestry one day Cheers Leon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Pointon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 2:30 PM Subject: RE: [Pots] ELLEN KNAPPER nee WALLIS Potter's Gilder > Dear Leon, > > Unless you're very lucky, you won't be able to find which pottery Ellen Wallis worked for - there have been so many over the years, > and many of them lasted a very short time before going bankrupt or being taken over. You are right about her job, though, and a very > skilled job it is, as are many in the pottery industry. You should pay another visit to the Potteries - you would be very pleasantly > surprised with how clean the air is nowadays! > > Hope this helps. > > Graham > > > -----Original Message----- > From: L K Knapper [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 26 April 2003 09:16 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Pots] ELLEN KNAPPER nee WALLIS Potter's Gilder > > > Hi Listers, > > Though my forebears were born and brought up in the Potteries, sadly I have to confess to little knowledge of the > area. I can remember only one visit as a child to my father's auntie Louis's ( porbably Lucy Ann Wallis)sweet shop in Litchfield > Street amidst the smog and having come from North Wales where the air was clean and fresh wondering why the air there was so smoky. > I know now that it was probably caused by the myriad pottery kilns belching smoke into the local atmosphere. Which brings me to the > point of this E-mail. > I have discovered from the 1901 census, (the free bit!! I really must check up the full information and not be so penny pinching!) > that my grandmother Ellen Wallis from Burslem was a Potter's Gilder. Am I right in thinking that her job involved putting the gold > decoration around various types of pottery or china? > Secondly, as she lived in Burslem is there any way that I could find out which pottery company she may have worked for or is that a > very tall order? > Kind regards > > Leon Knapper > > > ==== ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES Mailing List ==== > The List for the Pottery Towns of the Ancient County of Staffordshire > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 10/04/03 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 10/04/03 > > > ==== ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES Mailing List ==== > The List for the Pottery Towns of the Ancient County of Staffordshire >