. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. ley. In 1764, Josiah Wedgwood, then in his thirty-fourth year,the sole proprietor of an extensive, lucrative, and rapidlyincreasing manufactory, and enjoying the proud distinctionof being Potter to her Majesty, and of having earned forhimself a name and fame which were the envy of all hisneighbours, married and brought home his young bride tothe Ivy House, at Burslem. The lady who became his wifewas
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. ley. In 1764, Josiah Wedgwood, then in his thirty-fourth year,the sole proprietor of an extensive, lucrative, and rapidlyincreasing manufactory, and enjoying the proud distinctionof being Potter to her Majesty, and of having earned forhimself a name and fame which were the envy of all hisneighbours, married and brought home his young bride tothe Ivy House, at Burslem. The lady who became his wifewas his distant—in fact, the magical number of seventimes removed—cousin, Sarah Wedgwood, the daughter,and eventually sole heiress, of Richard Wedgwood, Esq., ofSmallwood, in Cheshire. The marriage was solemnised justa hundred years ago, on the 25th of January, in the year1764, as will be seen from the following copy of the registerof the parish of Astbury, which has been kindly furnished tome by the rector of that place :— Astbury Church, Cheshire. No. 453. [All the first part of the register not filled in.] Married in this church by License, tliis twenty-fifth day of 156 THE o o a o
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