GENEALOGICAL TABLES OF THE FAMILIES OF WEDGWOOD, OF BURSLEM. I. TABLE A. Containing the Elder Branch, (or Burslem Wedgwoods) of which the Male Line is extinct. II. b. 1646. Thomas, Anne, Sarah, I. II. TABLE B. Containing the eldest surviving Male Branch, or OVERHOUSE Family Thomas Wedgwood, 2d surviving son of Gilbert 1653 Margaret Shaw, who survived VII. Benedicta John John, unm. 1838. d. s. p. Thomas, d. 1835 (issue.) 2 | Abner Philemon, and four daughters. 3 | 2 Thomas, of Spitalfields, London, China Merchant, unm. IV. 201 TABLE C. Containing the Etruria Family. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD, Sarah, daughter of Richard Wedgwood, (youngest son of Thomas Wedg III. 2. John Allen, (in holy orders). 4. Caroline Louisa Jane, d. unm. 6. Jessie, m. her cousin Henry A. Wedgwood, Esq. 7. Robert, (in holy orders) m. Frances, dau. of Rev. Offley Crewe. 1 2 3 4 | 5 6 1. Sarah Elizabeth. 89 2. Josiah, m. his cousin, Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of R. W. Darwin, M. D. 3. Mary nne, d. unm. 4. Charlotte, m. Rev. C. Langton. 6. Francis, m. Frances, dau. of Rev. J. P. 7. Hensleigh, Barrister-at-Law, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh, Bart. 8. Frances, d. unm. 9. Emma, m. her cousin C. Darwin, F.R.S. TABLE D. Containing the next Male Branch (after the Etruria Line.)-See Table B. 202 TABLE E. Containing the Red Lion and Big-house Families, descended from Aaron, 6th Son of Gilbert and Margaret, (See Table A.) N. B. The Issue of William and Moses, the 4th and 5th Sons, are passed over for Want of Information. ANCIENT TILEWRIGHTS' CRAFT. 203 From the genealogy of the Wedgwoods, of whom the greater number were Potters in their day, we naturally come to consider the question-'When the manufacture of earthenware was first brought to Burslem?' We have, indeed, confessed our inability to state this with any degree of certainty ;* but we find it established here as far back as our researches have gone. The earliest specimens of its productions are rude, and without any pretensions to merit; and the making of earthen vessels was, unquestionably, one of the earliest and most simple efforts of human skill. The formation of a flat tile, or a hollow vessel of clay, required little advancement in civilization, and both these articles were, no doubt, wrought by the same hands, in primitive times. We are warranted in believing that such was the case during the captivity of the Jews in Egypt, when "their lives were made bitter with hard bondage, in bricks," and ere "their hands were delivered from the pots."† Our Saxon forefathers appear to have given one common surname to those employed in making tiles and pots,that of Tile-wrights, (workers of tile;) and an earthen jar was, with them, a tile-vat, (Tigulen væt.) In the Saxon Gospels, a translation of the 7th century, in the passage of St. Matthew, (ch. xxvii. v. 10.) the "Potter's Field," is rendered the Tilewright's Acre, (as we have already mentioned; which marks the peculiar sense of the term, whether the Saxon version was made from the Greek or the Latin text; for both the Kepaμevs of the one, and the Figulus of the other, signify what we now call a Potter, -a word which comes to us from the French, (i. e. Potier) and was, no doubt, imported hither by our Norman conquerors, along with a multitude of other French terms. * Vide ante, p. 24. + See Exodus, c. i. v. 14. See Chap. II. p. 24. tionary, Voc. "Tigel." Psalm lxxxi. v. 6. See also Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dic |