| 1741-04-07 | b. Stockton, Durham | George Richardson (1850) The Annals of the Cleveland Richardsons and their Descendants, compiled from family manuscripts, etc. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: not published |
| became a grocer in North Shields, Northumberland | Richardson (1850) | |
| 1777-02-13 | m. John Walker (cal 1731 – 1813, master and mariner, of North Shields; later grocer; s. of Thomas and Sarah (Stead) Walker) at Newcastle-upon-Tyne fmh | TNA: RG 6/228, /348, /778, /1245; Richardson (1850) |
| Children: | John (1778–1843), William (1779–1806), Mary (1781–1783), Henry (1783–1863), Hannah (1788–1868); all b. North Shields | Digest of Durham Quaker Births: Index; censuses; Digest of Durham Quaker Burials: Index; Annual Monitor; Richardson (1850) |
| 1811-06-01 | of Stephenson St, Tynemouth; d. North Shields | RG 6/228, /777, /1245; Richardson (1850) |
| 1811-06-05 | bur. North Shields fbg | RG 6/228, /777, /1245 |
| 1743-02-08 | b. Washington Mill, Durham | George Richardson (1850) The Annals of the Cleveland Richardsons and their Descendants, compiled from family manuscripts, etc. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: not published |
| 1777-11-26 | m. Sarah Hall (1745–1795, d. of Isaac and Alice (Fetherstone) Hall, of Broughton, Cumberland), at Little Broughton | TNA: RG 6/341; Richardson (1850); William Evans and Thomas Evans, eds Piety Promoted, in a collection of dying Sayings of many of the people called Quakers . . . 1854, Philadelphia |
| Children: | Alice (1779–1846, b. Workington, Cumberland), Hannah (1780–1843, b. Birmingham), Sarah (1783–1836, b. St Philip's, Birmingham), Lucy (1784–1844), John (1785–1785, b. St Martin's, Birmingham), and John (1787–1812, b. St Martin's, Birmingham) | RG 6/279, /947, /979, /988, /993; TNA: HO 107; Annual Monitor; Digest of Durham Quaker Burials: Index; Richardson (1850) |
| first settled as a civil engineer at Workington | Richardson (1850) | |
| 1779 |
The first steam mill [in Birmingham] was erected in Water Street, at the bottom of Snow Hill, for James Pickard a Birmingham button maker, in June 1779, to a design patented by Matthew Wasbrough a Bristol brassfounder. The engineer who erected the engine was John Stead (1743?-1799). Stead settled in Birmingham at some time before October 1780 and worked for the joint engine company formed by Pickard and Wasbrough. James Watt, who was not known for his generosity of spirit when it came to rival engine builders, held John Stead in high regard. He was the one person, in what came to be referred to as the Crank Company, who Watt regarded as an honest man. Stead was a Quaker. A letter from James Watt to Matthew Boulton [26 June 1779] refers to Stead the engineer from Workington. |
information from John Townley |
| 1780 | removed to Birmingham | Richardson (1850) |
| 1794-05-13 |
Birmingham, May 13, 1794. WHEREAS the Copartnership lately subsisting between Thomas Robinson, Thomas Archer, John Stead, and William Sheward, under the Firm of Robinson, Archer, and Co. is by mutual Consent dissolved. All persons indebted to the said Partnership, are requested to pay their respective Debts either to Thomas Robinson, or Thomas Archer. And if any Person or Persons have any claim on the said Partnership, he or they are desired to apply to either of us, who will Discharge the same. As Witness our Hands, this 13th Day of May, 1794. THOMAS ROBINSON. THOMAS ARCHER. Witness, JOHN STEAD. JOHN GUEST. WILLIAM SHEWARD. |
Aris's Birmingham Gazette, 1794-05-19 |
| 1797-09-18 |
STEAM ENGINE, TO be SOLD, a Steam Engine, equal to a Twelve-horse Power, in excellent Condition. Apply to Mr. Richard Jee, Bromsgrove; or Mr. John Stead, Engineer, Bradley Iron-Works, near Birmingham. |
Aris's Birmingham Gazette |
| 1799-10-13 | engineer, of Birmingham; "much respected as an elder in the Society"; d. Birmingham | RG 6/723, /1139; Richardson (1850); Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 1799-10-24 |
| 1799-10-16 | bur. Bull Street fbg, Birmingham | RG 6/723, /1139 |
| 1745-03-05 | b. Washington, Durham | George Richardson (1850) The Annals of the Cleveland Richardsons and their Descendants, compiled from family manuscripts, etc. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: not published |
| d. in early life | Richardson (1850) |
| 1747-04-24 | b. Washington Mill, Durham | George Richardson (1850) The Annals of the Cleveland Richardsons and their Descendants, compiled from family manuscripts, etc. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: not published; FFHS (2004) National Burial Index, 2nd edn |
| 1778-05-28 | carpenter, of Workington, Cumberland; m. Mary Hudson (1750–1841, d. of Joseph and Elizabeth Hudson, of Greysouthern, near Cockermouth), at Greysouthen, Cumberland | TNA: RG 6/341; Richardson (1850); Annual Monitor |
| Children: | John (1779–1814, b. Workington), Elizabeth (1780–1808), Margaret (1782–1826), William (1784–1784), William (1785–1809), Joseph (1787–1848), and Ann (1789–1852); all after John b. Bolton Wood, Cumberland | RG 6/470, /471; TNA: HO 107; Annual Monitor; Richardson (1850); National Burial Index |
| followed the business of civil engineer; first resided in the neighbourhood of Workington, but afterwards settled at Waverbridge, near Wigton, where he had the management of a colliery and other works | Richardson (1850) | |
| 1780-12-19 | of Bolton; one of those named from whom information could be obtained about the forthcoming auction of Low Ling Lime Kilns | Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser |
| 1810-12-07 | coal viewer, of Waverbridge, Cumberland; d. Waverbridge | RG 6/226, /465 |
| 1810-12-09 | bur. Bolton Wood fbg, Cumberland | RG 6/226, /465; National Burial Index |
| 1811-03-06 | yeoman, of Bolton, Cumberland; abstract of will in Death Duty Register | TNA: IR/26/434/171 |
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