Edward Heaviside Potter (1822 - abt. 1906)

Born 1822 in Knutsford, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Wood) Potter — married 19 Oct 1864 in Bebington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died about Jun 1906 at about age 84 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Edward Potter was born in Cheshire, England.

In his twenties, Edward was a wine merchant, in partnership with Charles Hay Steele in Birkenhead. They dissolved their partnership on June 30, 1849.^[1]
He subsequently worked as a cotton broker in partnership with John Samuel Wood until they dissolved the partnership in 1858.^[2] This must have been an amicable parting of the ways, as Edward would marry John's daughter Annie in 1864.

Sources

1. ↑ Perry's Bankrupt Gazette, Saturday 21 July 1849, pg. 8.
2. ↑ from the Liverpool Mail, Saturday 04 September 1858, pg. 4:
   "Notice is hereby given, that the PARTNERSHIP between the undersigned JOHN SAMUEL WOOD and EDWARD HEAVISIDE POTTER, carrying on Business as Cotton Brokers, at Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, under the firm of WOOD and POTTER, was DISSOLVED on the 26th day of August last.
   All debts due to or from the said firm to be collected or paid by the said EDWARD HEAVISIDE POTTER.
   Dated the 2nd September, 1858.
   JOHN SAMUEL WOOD.
   EDWARD HEAVISIDE POTTER.
   Witness, Joseph Wood."

• 1864 Certificate of Marriage in Parish Church of Bebington, Chester.

• 1871 England Census, Cheshire, Tranmere, District 11, pg. 48 of 51.

• 1881 England Census, Cheshire, Tranmere, District 13, pg. 37 of 48.

• 1901 England Census, Cheshire, Birkenhead, Tranmere, District 16, pg. 14 of 46.

• Cited in Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930, Rusholme, St John Chrysostom, 1878 - 1904, pg. 240 of 253.

• England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915, 1906, Q2-Apr-May-Jun, P, pg. 14 of 19.

• Photos courtesy of Kenneth Cook.