Author: Brettell, Ann
Biography:
BRETTELL, Ann (1782-1815: findmypast.co.uk)
She was born 19 October 1782, the daughter of Ann (Bourne) and Enoch Wood. Her father was a well-known earthenware modeller and later manufacturer, often called the “Father of the Potteries,” who had been apprenticed to Josiah Wedgwood and Humphry Palmer. (On his death in 1840, he left Ann’s children £2500.) She married John Brettell, also an earthenware manufacturer, on 25 October 1809. They had four children. He had entered into partnership with John Wood in 1804 (dissolved 1824 but the firm continued in another form until 1845). He died, probably on business, in Antwerp in 1826, aged 49. She was buried at St. John the Baptist, Burslem, 2 November 1815. Her two books, Meriden, or, Memoirs of Matilda (1819) and Susan Ashfield (1820) were published posthumously. (Acrostics in Susan Ashfield; Aileen Dawson, Portrait Sculpture in the British Museum [2000] 239; findmypast.co.uk 16 Jul. 2020; Staffordshire Advertiser 5 Jun. 1804 and 29 Jul. 1826.) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Brettell