Manufactured with handle.
Potter: ? Photo courtesy Paul De'Ath.
Note: This is a different person to the Frederick James Lane born c.1857, who was Wine Merchant at the Old Museum Buildings on College Green c.1880-1881, a son of Samuel Lane. b. Bristol c.1818.
Frederick Lane was born at Weston, near Bath, Somerset around 1825, son of coach proprietor William Lane and wife Sarah. William and Sarah had all their children baptised at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, on 11 July 1833, including William, Mary, James, Ellen, Jane, Frederick, Sarah, Isabell and Henry. There is a note in the baptism book that William and Sarah are in the marriage book for the same church for 4 July 1812, and indeed William Lane, alias Bond, married Sarah King on this date at St. Mary Redcliffe.
From the deaths column of the Dorset County Chronicle - Thursday 31 October 1833 page 4: "October 23, after a lingering illness, at Dawlish, Jane, third daughter of Mr. Lane, coach proprietor, Bath."
Likewise from the Exeter Flying Post - Thursday 09 February 1837 page 2: "Feb. 4, after only a few days' illness, at his residence, Weston, Mr. Lane, coach proprietor of Bath." William was age 48, and was buried on 11 Feb. at Bathford.
On 27 August 1841, 105 fast coach-horses belonging to William Lane and Mr. Isaac Niblett of the White Lion Hotel, Bristol, were up for sale in consequence of opening of the railways on routes that the coaches once seviced. That year, in the census, Frederick appears as a pupil at Mr. George Viner's preceptory at York Place, Bathwick. It is possible Viner was related to the family as the name appears in conjunction with Lane elsewhere in Bristol. Viner died in 1842 so it may be a tribute from somebody educated by him.
In 1851 Frederick's brother James is keeper of the White Lion Inn, Bath, and Frederick is living and working there as "Innkeeper's Brother".
Frederick married Kitty Eliza, daughter of Wine Merchant the late Robert Fry, formerly of the Talbot Hotel, Bristol, and Mrs. Fry late of Oriel-terrace, Weston-super-Mare at the parish church there on 28 October 1852. Kitty was born in June 1826 in Churchill, Somerset, daughter of maltster, Robert Fry, and wife Joannah, Joanna Fry was a widow when she married Robert in Winscombe, Som. in 1821. Originally Joanna Dyer she had married Thomas Rogers at St. James, Bristol on 19 Apr. 1810, son Thomas Rogers from that marriage was baptised in Churchill in 1811 and was a Hotel Keeper in Weston-super-Mare in 1851, and mother Joanna was living there at that time. By this date Frederick is a Wine Merchant on his own account in Bristol. Sisters Isabel and Sarah are spinsters living in Westbury-upon-Trym and brother Henry is in Newport.
Son Edward Frederick Lane was baptised at St. John's, Weston-super-Mare, on 27 April 1854. Daughter Emily Kate Lane was baptised at St. Paul's Bedminster on 14 Feb. 1857, the family were living at 12 Ashton Terrace at that time. Edward F. Lane followed his father into the wine trade.
In the years following 1852 there was a lawsuit Lane v. Niblett concerning the estate of William Lane which resulted in the sale of the White Lion in Bath with James Lane as tenant.
From the London Gazette - 31 December 1852 page 3959: "TO be peremptorily sold, pursuant to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause of Lane against Niblett, with the approbation of Nassau William Senior, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at Mr. 'Frederick Morris' rooms, No. 22, Milsom-street, Bath, on Friday, the 28th day of January 1853, at one o'clock in the afternoon in five lots; Certain freehold and leasehold premises, called the White Lion Inn and White Lion Tap, and the stables and premises thereto appertaining, situate in the Market-place and Bridge-street, in the city of Bath, late the property of William Lane, of the said city, deceased; Particulars whereof may be had gratis at the said Master's chambers, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; of Sir John Kerle Haberfield, and Mr. Isaac G. Niblett, Solicitors, Bristol; of Mr. Charles Berkeley, Solicitor, 52, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London; of Messrs. Makinson, Sanders and Carpenter, Solicitors, 3, Elm-court, Temple London; of Messrs. Thomas and Robert Crutwell, Solicitors, Westgate-buildings, Bath; of the Auctioneer, 22, Milsom-street, Bath; and at the said White Lion Inn, Bath.—Dated 29th December 1852."
From the London Gazette - 25 April 1853 page 1209: "PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause Lane against Niblett, the.creditors of William Lane, late of Bath, in the county of Somerset, Hotel Keeper and Coach Proprietor, deceased (who died in or about the month of February, 1837), are, on or before the 25th day of May, 1853, to come in and prove their debts before Nassau William Senior, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at his chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree."
In 1868 the premises of Frederick Lane in Bedminster were attacked during the election riots that year. This may have precipitated his partnership with John Maberly Banfield.
From the Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette - Thursday 8 February 1883 page 3: "MARRIED...Feb. 1st, at Roscommon, by the Rev. Canon Bourke W. Wright, Edward Frederick, son of Frederick Lane, esq., 14, Alma Road, Clifton, to Euphemia Grace, second daughter Reynold Peyton, esq., A.B., M.D., F.R.C.S., Surgeon CountyInfirmary, Roscommon."
Frederick Lane of Clifton Down House, Clifton, died 10 January 1892, Probate 10 March to Edward Frederick Lane, Commercial Traveller, and Charles Kynaston Coathupe Herepath, Surgeon.
Widow Kitty Eliza Lane died in 1901 age 75, registered in Axbridge.
Edward F. Lane late of 30 Cavendish Road, Henleaze, died on 16 May 1907 in Torquay, age 53, where he had gone for his health. He was chairman of Messrs. Rather & Co. Ltd. (Bristol Wine & Spirit Merchants).
John Maberly Banfield was born in St. Michael's, Bristol about 1826, baptised at St. James on 4 October 1829 along with several brothers and sisters. He was son of Commercial Traveller and later Accountant, Edward Banfield, and wife Susanna Young Salmon who had married in St. John the Baptist, Bristol on Christmas Day 1805. Baptised with him were Emma, Catherine, Mary and Thomas Stokes Salmon. Edward's mother was Mary Maberly and that is where John's middle name comes from.
John married Jane, daughter of Accountant, John Lewis, of St. Andrew's, Montpelier, Bristol, at St. James, Bristol, on 4 May 1848.
John Maberly Banfield went into business with John Lewis as Wine and Spirit Merchants in Devonport and in Bristol, but the business was unsuccessful. At this time he was also an agent for the London Indisputable Life Policy Company.
In the 1851 census John M. Banfield, Jane and family are living at 61 Fore Street, Stoke Damerel where John has his business. Two children, Edward Maberly, and Mary Kate were born here. Other children followed after the family moved to Bristol: Elizabeth Annie (1852-1938); Agnes Annie (1856-1919); Emma Grace (1857-1951); Arthur Harry (1860-1906) and Susan Mabel (1863-1946).
From the Western Morning News - Monday 25 October 1869 page 1: "THIS is to give notice that the Court authorised to act in the prosecution of a Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy, filed on the 24th day of October, 1851, JOHN MABERLY BANFIELD, of Devonport,ln the county of Devon, and JOHN LEWIS, of No. 44, Saint Michael's-hill, in the city of Bristol, carrying on business as Wine and Spirit Merchants at Devonport aforesaid, under the style or firm of “J. M. Banfield and Company," did hold a public sitting for the allowance of the Certificate to the said Bankrupts, on the 19th day of February, 1852, at the Court of Bankruptcy for the Exeter District, Woolster-street Hall of Commerce, in Plymouth, in the county of Devon, and the said Court did then and there allow and award unto John Mayberly Banfield, one of the said Bankrupts, a Certificate of the second class, and such Certificate was ordered to be suspended for twelve months from the said 19th day of February, 1852, and no-protection was given to the said John Maberly Banfield during such suspension. And notice is hereby given that such Certificate will be delivered to the said Bankrupt, John Maberly Banfield, unless appeal duly entered against the judgment of the Court." John Lewis was awarded his certificate on 19 Feb. 1852 it appears without suspension, whereas it took John 17 years to finally get his.
After the bankruptcy John and Jane moved back to Bristol, John worked as a Commercial Traveller for a Wine & Spirit Merchant and was able to pay his bankruptcy dividend at 9˝d in the pound.
When John finally got his certificate in 1869 it enabled him to go into partnership with Frederick Lane, at 29 Broad Street, Bristol, a partnership which lasted until 1881 when Frederick retired.
From the London Gazette - 22 July 1881, page 3626: "NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Frederick Lane and John Maberly Banfield, carrying on business at No. 29, Broad-street, in the city of Bristol, as Wine and Spirit Merchants, under the firm of Lane, Banfield, and Co., was this day dissolved, by mutual consent, the said Frederick Lane retiring from the said partnership. The business will henceforth be carried on by the said John Maberly Banfield, by whom all debts owing to and from the said partnership will be respectively received and paid.—As witness our hands this 30th day of June, 1881. Frederick Lane. J. M. Banfield."
At Frederick's retirement John resurrected the company name of J. M. Banfield & Co. The Bristol business was far more successful than that in Devonport, and outlived its founder.
John died 21 November 1893 at 4 Burlington Road, Clifton, and was buried at Arnos Vale.
The business continued at 29 Broad Street until it disappeared around 1902, run by Charles Frederick Terrell. Charles, born in Bristol around 1854 in Totterdown, Bristol, was a Wholesale Wine Merchant in 1901 on his own account, in the census of that year, visiting the Royal Clarence Hotel at Burnham-on-Sea. He sold the house he previously occupied in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, in May 1901 because he had removed to Clevedon.
Charles Frederick Terrell had married Agnes Annie Banfield, daughter of John Mabely Banfield, on 3 August 1881 at Emmanuel Church, Clifton, he was a Wine Merchant at the time and likely already working with John Mabely Banfield. The company likely continued only until Charles retired to Clevedon.
From the Deaths column of the Western Daily Press - Tuesday 08 March 1927 page 12: "TERRELL.—March 7. 1927. at "Lyndhurst," Clevedon, Charles Frederick Terrell, in his 74th year. Funeral on Thursday, 11.15 a.m.., Clevedon Parish Church."
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FREDK LANE / Wine Merchant / Bedminster / BRISTOL. Manufactured with handle. Potter: ? Photo courtesy Paul De'Ath. |