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1  Dr John POTTER DD; b.1674 d.10Oct1747 Lambeth, England.
  · Archbishop of Canterbury 1737-1747.
  · Son of Thomas POTTER (Wakefield, Yorkshire Linen Draper [404]). John's
  Wakefield childhood home is now the Black Rock Hotel
  · Attended Oxford University from age 14, obtaining his BA in 1692,
  MA in 1694, BD in 1704, Fellow of Lincoln College 1694 and
  Doctor of Divinity (DD) 1706.  
  · Ordained Deacon 1698, Priest in 1699, Domestic Chaplain to
  Archbishop Tenison 1704 and later Chaplain to Queen Anne,
  regius Professor of Divinity, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford (1708),
  Bishop of Oxford (1715) and Archbishop of Canterbury 1737.
  · His Theological Works were published in 3 vols. [163]
  and include Archælogicæ Græcæ [Antiquities of Greece] (1697-99),
  "Discourse of Church Government Wherein the Rights of the Church
  and the Supremacy of Christian Princes are Vindicated and Adjusted"
  London, 1707. 
  · Not surprisingly, many considered him boring and the translation into
  Latin of his coronation sermon (preached on the acession of George II) was one
  of the standard punishments given at Corpus Christi College in 1893! [403]
  · Others saw his unexciting personality as an asset: he "maintained the
  rights of the church with sufficient firmness and dignity, without having recourse to 
  the brash and offensive measures which characterised many of his predecessors"[508] 
  · A notable Whig, but opposed to Bishop Hoadly who was "was more concerned
  on account of this adversary than of any other with whom he had been engaged" [649] 
  · Appears to have had extensive holdings in Bedfordshire (Felmersham, 
  Houghton Conquest, Haynes Park) [345] [346]
  · Modern scholars have accused him of obtaining wealth "from the proceeds of 
  his office" [403] and also of pride and hauteur, but there is no ground for 
  concluding that he did more than sustain his high office with the dignity and 
  decorum it required.[164]
  · It is recorded that a John Potter built the Little Theatre in the 
  Haymarket in 1720 but the assumption this was our John Potter is incorrect, despite
  the Greek style. It was a carpenter named John Potter who actually built it. [376] 
  This John Potter died 1754 not 1747 [648]
  · Also see Comment 1 (Dr Potter's relation to Methodism and the mode of his death).
  · Buried at Croydon Parish Church, St John the Baptist, 27Oct1747 
    with a confusing number of inscriptions claimed: 
  "Beneath are deposited the remains of the most Reverend JOHN POTTER, D.D., Archbishop of
    CANTUBURY, who died October X. MDCCXLII, in the LXXIV year of his age" [699] or
  "Here lieth the body of the most Reverend John Potter, D.D., Archbishop of
    Canterbury, who died Oct. 10th, 1747, in the 74th year of his age" [164] or
  An "aternative epitaph" was recorded in a letter from Mr. Martyn to a Dr. Birch:
  "Alack and well-a-day
   Potter himself is turned to clay." [187]
  · Arms: Sable, a fess ermine between three cinquefoils argent
 + ?Elizabeth VENNER [412] 
   dau. of Colonel VENNER [461] [464], a rather "scanalous match",
   being not only involved in the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion [463] but the son
   of the infamous  Thomas VENNER. [404] [407] (of Venner's Rising 
   Jan1-4 1661 against the new central government of Charles II. 
   Thomas was hung, drawn & quartered 19Jan1661) - see Venner.
  · They married "soon after his appointment to the Divinity Professorship
   (1708) [164] and they went on to have a large family of 10 [412] but 
   only two sons and two (actually 3) daughters survived him [404]
   Mrs Potter was described as a "very handsome woman" [412]

  2 John POTTER b.4Oct1713; d.20Sept1770 [1st son] See John below

  2 ?Jeremiah POTTER b.1714 d.1784 [192]

  2 Thomas POTTER MP b.28Jul1718 [124], [185],  
    d.17Jun1759 [173], [185], [192], [405] at his favourite residence of Segenhoe Manor,
    Ridgmont, near Woburn, Bedfordshire [409] 
    · "Wit and politician", living at 31 Grosvenor Square 1753-6 [201]
    · Barister; admitted to the Middle Temple Bar in 1740.
    · Member of Parliament for St. Germans (Cornwall) 1747-54 [177c] [174],
    · Appointed secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales 1748-51. [185] [401] [502]
    · Noted by Horace Walpole as a "very able speaker...matching...against Mr Pitt" [185].
    · In 1753 he introduced a Bill to the House of Commons to hold a census.
    · See Comment 3 (Potter: Proposal for a UK census). 
    · "One of the few who spoke against the repeal of the 1753 Jews Naturalization Act 
      (appealed the same year because of unpopularity) [602]    
    · MP for Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) 1754 [177a], re-elected to Aylesbury in 1756
    after appointment as Paymaster-General of the Land Forces 1756-7 [175] [176]
    · MP for Okehampton (Oakhamptom) (Devon) in 1757-9 [177b] [401]
    when he was also appointed joint vice-treasurer of Ireland.
    · A Governor of the Foundling Hospital [503]
    · However, most historical interest has centred on his membership
    of the infamous Hell-Fire Club.
    · See Comment 2 (Thomas Potter: Hell-Fire Club & ribald writing).
    · "Thomas [was] a man of fashion, exceedingly handsome, a wit, an orator and a 
    notorious libertine" [403] and "Potter was a great deal more handsome than is 
    good for a man, and was blessed with brains of an uncommon order. The combination 
    proved too heady a draught, especially when fortified by a large income. [505]
    · He inherited his father's large fortune but "It was not a case of virtue rewarded.
    His elder brother emulated his father as an earnest and able clergyman, but he had
    married a serving-maid, an offence sufficiently grave to cause John Potter to 
    disinherit him." [503]
    · Charles Churchill claimed that Thomas was disinherited by his father "on account
    of his dissolute life" [169], and some US sources thought he may have been
    given a stipend to move to America [172], but there is no evidence for this
    but there is evidence for a Potter decsended from the Archbishop emigrating.
    · It appears that a Potter gene for macular degeneration went to America [172]. 
    It is interesting that the Archbishop was also "suffered from a severe affection 
    of the eyes" [404]
    · On the other hand, John Potter's Will did leave him the Bates Manor which passed
    to Thomas' son Thomas and the Archbishop left him all his personal property,
    which was variousl estimated to the amount to between £70,000 and £90,000 [405] [407]
    · However, the will was contested bt John and others and despite reading the Judges
    descision, I am none the wiser! See [506] & [509].
    · Apparently the Archbishop "obliged him to marry" the daughter of Dr Manningham [404] [422].
     Thomas allegedly bullied his her into an early grave and in a letter to John Wilkes
     stated "whither I am hurrying from the ...loathsome bawdy of the Nurses, the solemn
     and hideous Lullabies of my Mother in Law and the odious Yell of a young female 
     Yahoo that thrust herself into the world yesterday." [206]
    · Thomas suffered from "chronic digestive afflictions, aggrevated by painful
     bouts of venereal and other urethral diseases, which would lead to his death
     in 1759 at the age of forty-one." [503]
   +(1) ___ MANNINGHAM d.4Jan1744; Dau of Dr Manningham.  
     "by whom he was left an only son, now at Emanuel College" [422]
    3 Thomas POTTER dsp
      "a youth of good parts, good nature and amiable qualities who was sent to 
      Emmanuel Colledge, Cambridge in Oct 1756 [409] 
      BATES MANOR (Edlesborough), was inherited by a Thomas POTTER, son of 
      Thomas POTTER, son of Archbishop John POTTER. Thomas owned it from 
      1761 until 1763 when it was sold to William BECKFORD, who was
      Lord Mayor of London. [205]
      The manor of Britens alias Grove Manor (Houghton Conquest) also passed
      to Thomas when his father died in 1759, who became Lord of the manor
      in 1761. He then died without issue and the property passed to his 
      half-sister Mariana, the wife of Dr Malcolm MacQueen (living there in 1810) [346].
    3  ___ POTTER (dau) ?d.y. [206]
   +(2) Mary LOWE of Brightwell, Oxfordshire; m.14Jul1747 (with a fortune of …50,000) [409], [IGI] 
     Dau of Francis Lowe who left her the Segenhoe-cum-Ridgmont Manor. [505] 
     "By his last wife, a daughter of Mr. Low of Ridgmont, he has left two young daughters." [422] 
    3 Mariana (Maria) POTTER (dau and heir)
     + Malcolm MacQUEEN M.D. b~1746; d.24July1829 of Ridgemont House
       Son of Archibald MacQUEEN B~1746 of Totaroam and Flora MacLeod [504]
       Inherited The manor of Britens alias Grove Manor (Houghton Conquest)
       before 1810 on the death of half-brother-in-law Thomas POTTER [346]
      4 Lieutenant-colonel Thomas Potter MacQUEEN b.1791 (Bedfordshire); d.31Mar1854, 
        MP for East Looe, Cornwall 1816-1826 and Bedfordshire Co. 1826-1830 and
        colonizer (Segenhoe in the Hunter River valley, NSW named after Segenhoe Manor),
        responsible for the first direct shipment of free emigrants to NSW. [413] 
       + Anne ASTLEY m.1820; d.1822(sister of Sir Jacob ASTLEY, baronet and dau of the
         late Sir Jacob Henry ASTLEY, bart.
      4 Capt. John MacQUEEN

[Note: In his will, the Archbishop wished his estate to go to the sons of all
       his children (including his daughters if they changed their name to 
       Potter) [422]. It is therefore possible that some Potters tracing their
       ancestry to the Archbishop were not descended from the sons John & Thomas.] 
   
    3 John POTTER b~1740 d.1816)[193]
      [?? = son of 1st wife or more probably son of a Potter daughter who changed his name!?]  
     + unknown
      4 John POTTER b.1760 d.s.p.1816
      4 William POTTER b.1761 d.s.p.1821
      4 Robert POTTER b.1762 d.s.p.1802
      4 Nathaniel POTTER b.1763 d.s.p.1844/5
      4 Thomas POTTER b.1771 d.1822
       + unknown
        5 William POTTER b.1798 d~1834
         + unknown
          6 Thomas POTTER b~1822 d.1894
           + unknown
            7 Richard John POTTER b.1849 d.1927
             + Elizabeth C.
              8 eleven daughters and one son including
              8  Eleanor Florence POTTER b.1876 [192] [193]
               +  Alfred BRAINDBRIDGE b.21Jan1877 (Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne)
                 d.9Mar1944 m.18Aug1890 view family  (?p/w problem) 
              8 Richard Robert POTTER b.1868 d.1909)
               + unknown
                9 Cecil Norman POTTER OBE b.1892 d.1979 
                 [OBE for his services to the Scouting movement [194] ]
                9 Ivy Gwendoline POTTER b.1907 d.1993
                9 Violet Priscilla POTTER b.1893 d.1986
                 + Walter YOUNG
                  10 Maureen Violet YOUNG b.1922 d.1987
                   + Albert Henry STANDEN b.1922 d.1975
                     view family  (?p/w problem)
        5 Thomas Robert POTTER (1800 - 1877).

          NOTE: no evidence found for this connection
    3 ___ POTTER [US family tradition he was sent to America because of debauchery
      and was descended from Archbishop POTTER]
     + unknown
      4 Lester POTTER b.Apr1876 New York [172]
       + ___
        5 Four sons: - Arey, Clyde, Randle & Wellington 
          and three daughters: - Dorothy, Margaret and Helen 


  2 four daughters surviving to adulthood, 3 surviving Dr POTTER including:

  2 Elizabeth POTTER b~1726 (eldest daughter); b.1702; m.1729 (Cuddesdon, Oxford) [IGI];
    dsp.19Mar1730 (in childbirth); (bur St Margrets, Westminster)
   + Rev. Thomas TENISON, LL.B. Cantab., (1721); b.1700(02); d.1742 [419]
     Archdeacon of Kent, Rector of Carmarthen [419], Chancellor of Oxford diocese, 
     Prebendary of Canterbury. (declined an Irish Bishopric); 
     sub. married heiress Mary/Margaret SMITH m.14Feb1737/8. [374] [419]
     He was the great-nephew of Archbishop Thomas Tenison [404] and 
     son of Edward TENISON (b.1673; d.1735), Bishop of Ossory [438]
     By his 2nd wife he had two children, Thomas TENISON (b.1739; d.1788 in Kilkeary, Island)
     and Hanrietta-St. Elroy TENISON  dsp. [419]
    3 ___ TENISON (unknown if child survived)
      If so, could well be the John POTTER who (I have postulated)
      needed to assume the POTTER surname to claim the Archbishop's inheritance.

  2 Martha POTTER m.1739 [427] 
   + George SAYER, M.A. (Oriel College 1719), D.D. (1735) [427] b.1696; (installed 30Jun1725); 
     d.1761 (Brussels), the son of George SAYER (1657-1727), proctor (attorney) of Doctors'
     Commons and Mary Exton (and brother of Dr Exon SAYER, spiritual chancellor of Durham.) 
     Archdeacon of Canterbury (but apparently got into trouble when he then refused to resign
     as Prebend of the 10th Stall at Durham cathedral and became involved in dubious land 
     conveyences). He retired to Brussels "on account of his embarrassed circumstances". [427]
     Apparently the Rev Sayer also had "an intrigue with my Lady Baltimore" [422] but this did
     not seem to reduce his favour in the eyes of the Archbishop.
    3 Elizabeth SAYER b.28May1741; bapt.24June1742 (St James, Westminster) [IGI]; dsp.1789 [427]
     + Hon Raby VANE m.1768; d.1789. The great-grandson of Charles II and Barbara VILLIERS
       Elizabeth then inherited the manor of Barnsbury, Islington 
    3 Mary SAYER m.24May1751 (Ely, Cambridge, England) [696]; d.1804
     + Rev John GOOCH DD b.8Aug1729; d.7Jan1804 Rector Ditton-on-Wellingham, Cambridgeshire,
       Prebendary of Ely [698]
      4 Mary GOOCH m.8Jan1783
       + Ven. Houstoune RADCLIFFE DD m.8Jan1783; d.1822; Vicar of Gillingham, Kent, 
         4th Prebendary of Canterbury
         Archdeacon of Canterbury 1803-1822 [697].
      4 Rachel GOOCH b.26Sep1757; m.19Aug1778; 
        d.3Dec1839 (St. George's Hanover Square).
       + Right Rev Richard BEADON DD b.1737; bap.15Apr1737 (Oakford, Devon); 
         Bishop of Gloucester (1789-1802) then Bath & Wells (1802-1824);
         d.21Apr1824 (Bath, Somerset)
         (son of Robert Beadon and Mary Squire)
        5 Rev Richard BEADON Rector of Wiveliscombe, Chancellor of the Diocese of Bath & Wells
         + Annabella A'COURT m.1805
           dau of Sir William Pierce Ashe A'COURT, 1st Bart
          6 Sir Cecil BEADON, Indian Secretary during the Mutiny; Lieut-Governor of Bombay
            b.1816; d.18Jul1880
           +(1)Harriet SNEYD m.1837
           +(2)Agnes STERNDALE 
 
  2 Mary POTTER (3rd dau) b~1723; m.Jan 1742/3; d.30Apr1779
   + Thomas TANNER DD; b.1718; d.11Mar1786 
     [only son of Thomas TANNER (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph (a learned antiquary)]
     Prebendary and Canon of Canterbury and Rector of Hadleigh and Monks Eleigh, Suffolk.
    3 Mary Elizabeth TANNER b.14Oct1747; Chr.10Nov1747 (St Anne Soho, Westminster) [IGI]; 
      m.09Oct1765 (St George, Hanover Square, Westminster, London) [IGI]; d.1818 [411]]
     + Richard MILLES (MILLS) Esq. of North Elmham, MP of Nackington d.1820 [411]] [410]       
      4 Mary Elizabeth MILLES d.2Sep1818
       + Lewis Thomas WATSON, 2nd Lord Sondes b.18Apr1754; m.30Nov1805; d.20Jun1806
        5 Eight children [Lewis Richard WATSON, 3rd Lord Sondes, George John WATSON,
          (later Milles), 4th Lord Sondes, Henry WATSON, Major Richard WATSON,  
          Mary Grace WATSON and Catherine WATSON.] [568]      

  2 Edith POTTER b~1726 (youngest daughter); m.29May1745; d.9(11)Jun1761 (age 35)
    "amiable, affectionate, and truly pious" [184]
   + Jeremiah MILLES DD b.29Jan1714 (Duloe, Cornwall); m.29May1745; 
     d.13Feb1784 (Harley St, London). President of the Antiquarian Society, 
     Son of Jeremiah MILLES, fellow and tutor of Baliol College, Oxford and nephew and
     heir of Dr Thomas MILLES, Bishop of Waterford & Lismore (d.1740) [440]
     He received a number of "ample preferments" (valuable positions) including 
     Dean of Exeter 1762 [165] [167] [199] [437]
    3 Jeremiah MILLES b.17Jan1751; m.8Jun1780 (London); d.22Apr1797
      Lord of the Manor of Pishobury [443]
     + Rose GARDINER b.15Jul1757; d.21May1835 sole dau & heiress of Edward GARDINER
      4 Four infant dau (on Jeremiah's death), including,
      4 Rose MILLES b.24May1782; d.19Feb1824
       + Rowland ALSTON b.7June1782; d.21 Nov1865
        5 six children (Rowland Gardiner ALSTON, William Vere ALSTON,
          Francis ALSTON, Rose ALSTON, Harriet ALSTON, Caroline ALSTON [204]
    3 Richard MILLES [402]
    3 Thomas MILLES chr.28Jul1752 (St Peter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon) [IGI], [402]
    3 Charlotte MILLES chr.28Oct1749 (St Peter Cathedral, Exeter) [IGI]; d.1777 [442] 
    3 Harriet MILLES chr.18Jan1758 (St Peter Cathedral, Exeter) [IGI]; d.24Sep1822 [441]
      (one daughter married Captain Blake) [402]
    3 Mary MILLES [569]
     + Captain Thomas BUNBURY (of Cranavonane); High Sheriff for Co. Carlow in 1761
       (Captain in British Army); m.1758; d.Dec1790
      4 Six sons, the eldest being Major Benjamin Bunbury b~1760; d.1827 [569]

  2 John POTTER DD; b.4Oct1713; d.20Sept1770 (Wrotham) [406] [426]
    Educated at Christ Church, Oxford [M.A. 1734, DD 1745] and took Holy orders.
    Rector/Vicar of Chiddingstone [376], Archdeacon of Oxford 1741-1767 and
    Dean of Canterbury 1766-1770. [694] [189]      
    John had annoyed his father by marrying a domestic servant [404], so he was apparently 
    disinherited (apart from "benefices"), and so the manor of BRITENS alias GROVE MANOR
    and other property was left to Thomas [347]. 
    However, he was "liberally provided for by his father, according to the custom of 
    the day, with Church preferment" [404], which after serving the Vicarage of 
    Blackburne (Lancashire) then the "valuable sinecure" of Elme-cum-Emmett in the 
    Isle of Ely (1739) included progress to the station of Archdeacon of Oxford 1741-1767
    and Dean of Canterbury 1766-1770. [189] [404] [189]
    He was also held the "benefices" of the Vicarage of Lydd and also Wrotham (both
    in Kent), which were greater than the accepted 30 miles apart (a fact successfully
    used by another dispensation applicant with holding 40 miles apart).         
    Tradition has the Archbishop known for his "pride and hauteur" so disgusted with 
    John's marriage to a servant that he was totally disinherited yet he remains in Dr 
    Potter's last will... "To my eldest son Mr Potter, Archdeacon of Oxford, to my 
    sons-in-law the husbands of my daughters..." [Will dated 12 August 1745] [178] 
    Another theory was that tradition confused John with his wayward brother Thomas
    (see above), yet both remained in the will. 
    History has not been kind to John - "Dr. Potter was a man of no mark whatever" [406]
    In 1750 John donated the 1744 Oil on canvas painting by Thomas Hudson of his father,
    the Archbishop of Canterbury (then the Bishop of Oxford) to the Oxford University.
   + Martha ___ [694fn] a domestic servant (bedmaker) [409] b~1705; d.1775 [694fn]
    3 John POTTER d.1740 bur.8Nov1740
    3 John POTTER bapt.5May1742 [408] 
    3 John Theophilus POTTER b.1Jul1752 (see below


[between lines Unproven connection]
    3 Joseph POTTER (Senior) b~1756; d.1842 Architect
     + Mary
      4 Edward POTTER Chr.22Jun1823 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
     + Jane b.1789 (Haverford West, Pembroke); d.16Oct1871 [IGI]
      4 William Frederic POTTER Chr.22Sep1829 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
      4 ?Joseph POTTER (Jun) {?? b.1767, Haverfordwest; d.19Jun1830 [IGI]}
       + Martha Jane
        5 William Joseph POTTER Chr.19Nov1855 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]

    3 Thomas POTTER
     + Mary
      4 Sarah POTTER Chr.23May1833 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
      4 William Edward POTTER Chr.25May1835 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
      4 Henry POTTER Chr.14Sep1837 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
       + Elizabeth POTTER {?? b.1820 (Haverford West); d.1870 [IGI]}
        5 Samuel Wilkin Sutton POTTER Chr.08Feb1872 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
          (If his mother died 1870, he could still be chr. 2 years later)
      4 Edward POTTER Chr.14Sep1840 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI] 

    3 John William POTTER Printer of Haverfordwest
        Moved with his sons to Kinsdale in 1832 or 1833 [510]
     + Medora Sarah Anne
      4 Medora Sarah Anne POTTER Chr.30Dec1828 (St Thomas, Haverford West) [IGI]

 
    3 John Theophilus POTTER b.1Jul1752 ?1746 [196] (Dublin).
      Occ. actor, then Printer, introducing printing to Haverfordwest 1780.
      See Comment 4; Master Bookbinder [338]
      A burgess of the town in 1787 then High Sheriff 1790.    
      Present at the repulsion of the French invasion of 1797, which was 
      commemorated in the 1997 unveiling at Fishguard of the 100ft long 
      "Last Invasion Tapestry" (ie Not the Bayeux Tapestry of 1066).
      Moved to London in 1807, d.15Sep1839. Bur. West Hackney
     +(1)Elizabeth (Bessie) EDWARDES from Haverfordwest m.1779 (St Martin, H/west);
      d.1804 [196] [424]
      4 Charles POTTER d.s.p.
      4 Joseph W. POTTER actor & printer -see Comment 4
        Elected Sheriff in 1814, 1834 and 1835 and in 1843 was Mayor of 
        Haverfordwest. Died 1846, a year after a stroke. 
       + Jane [also published a pamphlet]
        5 Elizabeth POTTER Chr.24Apr1814 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI] d?1870
        5 Catherine POTTER Chr.19Jan1817 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
        5 Joseph POTTER (jr.) Occ. newspaper publisher
          chr.13Dec1818 (St Mary,  Haverford West); d.15Apr1895 [IGI] 
          Comment 4
        5 Maria POTTER Chr.20Sep1820 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
        5 Henry Edward POTTER Occ. printer & stationer. 
          Chr. 7Jul1825 [IGI] See Comment 4
         + Jane
          6 Joseph POTTER Chr.11Jun1853 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI] 
        5 Edward John POTTER b~1830; Chr.21Feb1831 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI];
          d.1868 Occ Printer/publisher Comment 4 Edward
         + Elizabeth (Bessie) b~1833 d.July1875 Occ Printer/publisher Comment 4
          6 Edward Phillips POTTER  Chr.20Dec1860 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
          6 Gertrude Mary POTTER Chr.27Mar1862 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
          6 William Henry POTTER Chr.17Sep1863 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
          6 Joseph Arthur POTTER Chr.25May1865 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]
          6 Harry Edwin Llewellin POTTER Chr.08Oct1866 (St Mary, Haverford West) [IGI]

     +(2)Susannah (Susanna, Suzanna) HEATH (HARMAN [424], & Pemb. index [647]);
       (Jewess) m.12Jul1807 at Haverford West,
       (or St Paul’s Convent Garden [338])
       Later moved to London with husband John Theophilus POTTER.
       The family continued the printing and publishing business Comment 4 
      4 Mary Ann POTTER b.England m.8Aug1830 (St Luke Old Street, Finsbury, London) [IGI]
        d.Mar1869 [130]
       + Joseph BLANE ?b.15Sep1816 (St Marys, Lambeth, London) [IGI]
         [not Blayney!] Son of John & Rebeckah BLANE [IGI]
         Descendant of James II of Scotland & of the "De Blaine" family
        5 Eliza BLANE b.23Jun1830; Chr.22Aug1830 (St Leonards, Shoreditch) [IGI]
        5 Emma BLANE Chr.26Aug1832 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Thomas Joseph BLANE b.28Mar1834; Chr.20Apr1834 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
          d.15Feb1835
        5 Joseph Thomas BLANE b.28Mar1834; Chr.20Apr1834 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Joseph BLANE b.23Jul1835; Chr.16Aug1835 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 George BLANE b.19Feb1837; Chr.23Apr1837 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Frederich BLANE b.02Sep1838; Chr.24Sep1838 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Jonathan BLANE b.06Jan1842; Chr.30Jan1842 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Emily BLANE b.20Nov1843; Chr.10Dec1843 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Mary Ann BLANE b.27May1840; Chr.21Jun1840 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI];
           m.12Mar1864 d.2Jan1917
         + Theophilus John POTTER b.12Sep1836; Chr.02Oct1836 (St John
           the Baptist, Shoreditch, London) [IGI]; d.2Jan1917.
           (her cousin)
        5 Frances Caroline BLANE b.24Jul1845; Chr.14Sep1845 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Helen BLANE b.02Apr1847; Chr.30May1847 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Sarah Elizabeth BLANE b.13Jan1849; Chr.18Mar1849 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Henry Edward BLANE b.16Jan1852; Chr.25Mar1852 (St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI]
        5 Celia Maria BLANE b.02Jun1853; Chr.28Aug1853 (St John The Baptist, Shoreditch) [IGI]
      4 Theophilus John POTTER (1808-1866) (see below)
      4 Jessie POTTER d unm
      4 Walter POTTER d.4Jul1833
       + Edith WILCOX d.8Mar1831
        5 Frank POTTER
        5 Claude POTTER
        5 Guy POTTER
        5 dau POTTER
        5 Laurel POTTER
      4 Alfred POTTER d.19Dec1836
       + Lizzie
        5 son POTTER
        5 son POTTER
        5 dau POTTER
        5 dau POTTER

      4 ?James POTTER
       + Elizabeth
        5 JOHN WILLIAM POTTER Chr.04Sep1839 Saint Mary, Pembroke, Wales

      4 Theophilus John POTTER b.4May1808 Haverford West, Wales
        Chr.10Apr1840 (St John The Baptist, Shoreditch, London) [IGI]
        Moved from Haverford West to London 1813; Master Bookbinder [338]
        d.28May1866 Shoreditch bur. Abney Park, England
       +  Sarah Mary CHURCHER [IGI] (CHURCHES); b.3Jan1810 bpt.28Jan1810 (St Mary’s Battersea);
         dau of James & Martha CHURCHES [IGI] 
         m.26Jun1831 West Hackney, England; d.3Dec1901 (Edmonton)
        5 Susannah POTTER b.6Aug1833; chr.28Aug1833 (St John The Baptist, Shoreditch,) [IGI]
          d.Dec1834 (16mth)
        5 Theophilus John POTTER (1836-1916) (see below)
        5 Edwin POTTER b.07Oct1839; chr.03Nov1839 (St John The Baptist, Shoreditch)
          d.3Oct1918
          Printer (Coggeshall Press, Essex) and a musician [186], conducting the
          Coggeshall Philharmonic Society [376]
         +(1)Eliza Sophia REEVE b.1838 Hackney, London [166] m.Sep 1862 (Shoreditch);
          d.Sep1873 (Hackney) [130]
          6  Anne (Annie) Eliza POTTER ?b.Sep1873/4 (Greenwich); d~1944 (CVA) [186] 
            [must be 1873 if mum died Sept1873]
           + Edward HARRIS d.1912 (consumption). 
             Ran the Buckingham County Press, Buckingham Town UK. [186] 
            7  Arthur HARRIS b.1900 d.1975 Occ. branch manager of Barclay's 
              Bank UK, a Senior Freemason and church organist.
             + Doris b.1903 d.1978
              8 Living HARRIS view family  (?p/w problem) 
            7 Gilbert HARRIS b.1903 died early 1990s. [186]
             +(1)Dorothy
              8 Michael HARRIS died in the 1950s
              8 Living HARRIS view family  (?p/w problem)
          6 Mary Louisa POTTER Military Nurse, Matron of Military Hospital at 
            Alexandra (Egypt) in WWI [166]
         +(2)Louisa Mary Carey (2nd wife of Edwin) m.Dec1874 (Hackney); d.8Mar1924
           Music teacher for step-daughters
          6 Emily POTTER ?b.Jun1876 (Bethnal Green) [130]; ?d27Jul1940
          6 Edwin Carey POTTER (Clergyman & Printer) b.1882; d.1940
            Founded Algraphy Ltd (lithography company)
           + Nellie SPACKMAN m.Sep1904 (Wandsworth)
             Dau of Henry SPACKMAN (Bookseller & publisher) and sister of two priests [338].
            7 Noel Carey POTTER b.1906; d.20May1978 (C of E priest [338])
              Last Parish was Axminster, East Devon.
             + Sylvia Mary Josephine EDWARDS b.1912; m.1934; d.1980 
               Occ. artist & teacher [613]
              8 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
            7 Stanley Edwin POTTER b.1910; d.1987
              Algraphy taken over by Vickers 1970.
             + Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
              8 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
              8 Living SZANTO view family  (?p/w problem) [338]
            7 Mary Florence POTTER b.1916; dsp.1980
              Twice married; occ. teacher
          6 Eleanor Blanche POTTER b.Sep1878 (Hackney)
        5 Mary Ann POTTER b.22Nov1841; Chr.12DEC1841 (St John The Baptist, Shoreditch) [IGI]
          d.17Apr1914
         + William ARNOLD (?Arnald) d.26Oct1913
          6 Herbert ARNOLD d. age 5 (croup)
          6 Constance ARNOLD d. 1 yr
          6 Lilly Constance ARNOLD
        5 Emma Elizabeth POTTER b.6Oct1847; Chr.31OCT1847 (St John The Baptist,
          Shoreditch); d.(6)12Aug1849 at 22mths
        5 Charles James POTTER b.11Jan1851 (Shoreditch);
          Chr.20APR1851 (St John The Baptist, Shoreditch) [IGI]; d.3Dec(Nov)1912
          ? Printer
         +(1)Emily PIERCE [695] m.Mar1872 [130]; d.1892
          6 Emily Sarah POTTER b.1870 or 1873 [695]
           + Frank SMITH
            7 Lily Emily Rose SMITH b.1900
             + Stanley BYSH  
          6 Charles James POTTER
          6 Ernest POTTER
          6 Ellen POTTER
          6 Winifred POTTER
         +(2)Lottie BUCHANAN m.Jun1897 [130]; d.27Jan1917

        5  Theophilus John POTTER b.12Sep1836 chr.2Oct1836
          (St John the Baptist, Shoreditch) [IGI]
          m.12Mar1864 (Old St Rd, West Hackney) d.28May1916. 
          Occ. Clergyman, secretary, bookbinder           
         +  Mary Ann BLANE b.27May1840; Chr.21Jun1840 (Sr Botolph, Bishopsgate, London) [IGI];
           d.2Jan1917 (his cousin)
          6  Theophilus John POTTER b.22Dec1864 ?bpt Mar1865 (Shorditch) [130];
            d.3Mar1937
           +  Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ann GOWERS [124]  b.1862 
             m.24Dec1887 (Old Gravel Pit Chapel, Hackney). d.2(8)Feb1921
            7  Theophilus John POTTER b.9Dec1888
             +  Maud Alice TATE b.19Jun1899 m.3Jun1914 d.10Feb1970
              8 Ethel POTTER d. age 9
              8 Marjorie POTTER d. age 23
              8 John Theophilus POTTER b.22May1917
               + Jean Hazel DERBYSHIRE b.11Feb1929 m.26Aug1950
                 view family  (?p/w problem)
            7  Gwendolen (Gwennie) Elizabeth POTTER b.27Oct1889
            7  Horace Norman POTTER b.24(26)Nov1891 dsp
            7 Harold Ewart (Ervie) Kenneth POTTER b.17Dec1894
             + Marion ___
              8 Kenneth POTTER
          6 Charles Edward George POTTER (1867-1948) (see below)
          6  Edith (Edie) POTTER b.8Oct1871 d. unm >1948 (Westcliff, Essex)
          6 Jessie Sarah POTTER b.12Mar1876; ?bpt.Jun1876 (Shoreditch) [130]]
            dsp.1978 (age 102) 
           + Victor LOUGH (pron. "Loft") b.6Jan1906 m.6Jan1906 d.14Jun1930
            7  Gladice (Peggy) POTTER adopted neice, daughter of Charles
              so she became Peggy LOUGH. Stayed home to nurse Victor
              then Jessie. Dsp.Mar1992
          6 May? POTTER d.17Apr1914

          6  Charles Edward George POTTER b.31Jul1867 [195] 
            Islington, Middlesex, England. Brown eyes [195]
            or b.30Jul1867 38 Barington St [Birth Certificate]
            occ Clerk, Saw Doc, Mill Foreman, Merchant seaman (Deckhand
            on voyage to NZ & return disch 1910), carpenter.
            Emm.1912 to Canada, 1920 to NZ
            Married three times. d.10Jun1948
           +(1)  Emma CHARTERS b.1870 England, m.1Jun1895 Middlesex
             d.5Aug1911. Interred Edmonton Cemetery, Church St. Nth London
             d/o John Kendall CHARTERS, cabinet maker
             in Bethnal Green. 
             "Mr & Mrs Charters were a nice old couple"
            7  Charles John POTTER b.13Mar1897, London, Emm.1912
             d.22Oct1978 Vancouver, Canada
             +  Lottie Edith KEESMAN b.1883 m.Jun1921 d.1Mar1968
              8  Alice Grace POTTER b.9May1922 Vancouver, Canada
               +  Robert (Bob) D KEAN m.21Aug1954 ob ~2004
                 A divorcee with 3 sons to previous marriage.
                9 Allan Charles KEAN view family  (?p/w problem)
              8 Margaret (Margorie) POTTER b. Canada. Invalid (Vancouver Is)
                d.unm.
            7 Edward George POTTER b.16Dec1898, England, d.24Dec1898
            7 Mary (?May) POTTER b.24Aug1900 (twin), d.1Sep1900 (5900gm!)
            7 Frederick POTTER b.24Aug1900 (twin), England
              Emm.1912, later returned to England. Spiritualist/Medium
             + Leigh ___ (the nurse caring for him)
            7 Ernest (Ernie) Edward POTTER b.15Dec1902 See Ernie below
            7 twin brother of Peggy Potter b.10Mar1905 died very young.
            7  Gladice (Peggy) POTTER b.10Mar1905 
              Peggy remained in England and adopted by her aunt Jessie,
              sister of Charles, becoming Peggy LOUGH ("Loft"). dsp.Mar1992

            7  Ernest (Ernie) Edward POTTER b.15Dec1902, Tottingham, England.
              Mother died when he was 9, Emm. to Canada 1912 with 
              father and two brothers, joined army in 1917, claiming
              to be 18 (actually 14), but Charles found out before he 
              left for France. Private Potter 2448426 of the 21st Reg
              O/S Company of the Canadian O/S Expeditionary Forces was
              discharged on 18Jul1917.
              Apparently all his company died in France.  
              After 26 jobs he imm.1920 to NZ. 
              Occ. in NZ: Farming (18mth), 
              Merchant Navy (NZ-Australia) hon. discharge 31Jan1923;
              Freezing Worker 1923-4; Qual. as Mental (Psychiatric) Nurse 1928 
              and worked at Carrington Hospital; 
              Unemployed 1930-35 (Great Depression); 
              Bread Roundsman (carter) 1943-7
              Interests included the Church (lay minister & historian), 
              Unions, Flannelography and poetry.
              d.2Apr1981 (Heart Disease), 24b Johnstone Rd, Otara, Auckland
              Bur. Mangere Lawn Cemetry
             +  Margaret Arletta (Arlie) CARRUTHERS
               b.18May1902 Hamilton NZ m.18May1925.
               D/o Joseph CARRUTHERS b.20Aug1854,
               NZ and Alice Jane CUTHBERT b.28Jun1871 NZ. d.1945, NZ]
               d.15Dec1976 (Breast Cancer) Green Lane, Auckland, NZ
               (with Ernie and grandson, me at the bedside.
               See the Carruthers lineage.

              8  Phyllis Muriel Emma POTTER (alive) view family  (?p/w problem)
               +  Ivan Thomas BLAYNEY b.29Mar1926 (Auckland), d.1993             
                9 Living BLAYNEY view family  (?p/w problem)
                9 Living BLAYNEY view family  (?p/w problem)
                9 Keith Thomas BLAYNEY (me -still alive I think!) view family  (?p/w problem)
                9 Living BLAYNEY view family  (?p/w problem)
                9 Living BLAYNEY view family  (?p/w problem)
              8  Joseph (Joe) Edward POTTER b.1928 Auckland
                occ. Cabinet Maker.  d.1981 (brain tumour)
               +(1)Beryl CAMERON b.25Jun1929(8) Taree, NSW, Australia
                 dau. of Archibald Cameron and Vioet May Madalina b.19Jan1893 
                 m.5Dec1953 Occ. Shorthand typist
                9 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
                9 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
                9 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
              8 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
              8 Reginald George POTTER b.1933 d.1933 (6 hrs)
              8 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
              8 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)
              8 Living POTTER view family  (?p/w problem)

         +(2)Ann SINCLAIR b.1861 London (widow) m.6Aug1921 Auckland (to Charles)
            dau of John Davis (Cabinet Maker) and Eliza Roberts
            dsp.1May1932(1) in Canada

         +(3)Mary SMITH m.6Feb1932 (NZ) (to Charles) dsp