Ancestry of
Josiah Wedgwood

Inventor of Industrialized Pottery Manufacturing and the Pyrometer

Josiah Wedgwood

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Wedgwood III 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Stringer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jul 1730 
  • Birth Location:
  • Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Jan 1795 
  • Death Location:
  • Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • St Peter ad Vincula Churchyard, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England 
  • Notes: 

  • Founder of industrialized pottery manufacturing and inventor of the pyrometer, a device to measure extremely high temperatures. He invented the device to measure the temperature in his kilns.

• Marriages for Josiah Wedgwood

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Wedgwood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jan 1764
  • Marriage Location:
  • Astbury, Cheshire, England

• Sources for Josiah Wedgwood

  • ¹ Burke's Family Records, Dakeyne-Dundas, p. 213, Image 11 of 33.
  • ² England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, Marriage record for Josiah Wedgwood and Sarah Wedgwood.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/18/2015).
  • ⁴ Jewitt, Llewellynn, The Wedgwoods: Being A Life of Josiah Wedgwood; With Notices of his Works . . ., London: Virtue Brothers and Co. (1865), 85, 155-157, especially chart on 158.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 51.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Josiah Wedgwood", (accessed 02/18/2015).