Hello My greatgrandfather Uriah YATES was a cratemaker in 1809 when he married Ann FINNEY in Burslem. He was still a cratemaker in the 1851 census. 7 of his descendants were also cratemakers, until at least 1901. Did the potteries employ their own cratemakers, or did they buy the crates in? If anyone has access to any trade directories, could they please see if cratemaker is a trade and if there are any named YATES in the Burslem area. Thank you Jackie Russell

Hi Jackie, Dont know an awful lot about cratemaking but I remembered seeing a "Crate Works" marked on an old map of Burslem. If you go onto oldmaps online and enter the search as Cobridge. Then when you get the map up if you move westwards the crateworks is I think somewhere around the canal. Hope this is of interet to you. Terry Brooks. Manchester. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Russell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:19 AM Subject: [Pots] Cratemaker > Hello > > My greatgrandfather Uriah YATES was a cratemaker in 1809 when he married > Ann FINNEY in Burslem. He was still a cratemaker in the 1851 census. 7 > of his descendants were also cratemakers, until at least 1901. > Did the potteries employ their own cratemakers, or did they buy the > crates in? > If anyone has access to any trade directories, could they please see if > cratemaker is a trade and if there are any named YATES in the Burslem > area. > > Thank you > Jackie Russell > > > > ==== ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES Mailing List ==== > The List for the Pottery Towns of the Ancient County of Staffordshire >