Histories

This document draws on various published sources in charting the history of glassmaking at Stanton Wick, including "From Broad Glass to Cut Crystal" by D.R.Guttery, 1956. It also mentions a newspaper report of 21 Aug 1790 (Bristol Journal) in which 3 apprentices from the glasshouse had absconded and were being sought. Descriptions of the three - Joseph DULLY and Robert and Nathaniel WARREN - are given. Reference is made to a special Magistrates Court which was held at Nailsea in 1815 to hear the settlement examinations of workers transferred there from the Stanton Wick glasshouse, from which it is evident that boys would start work aged 7 or 8 before being apprenticed at 14 or 15 under 7-year contracts. This is said to be documented in the Nailsea parish settlement records.