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" Service Yard," for her life, with remainder to his son 

 John. This son, John Wedgwood, was a minor, and died 

 under age, and so never came into possession. Catherine 

 Wedgwood, after the decease of her husband, Richard, mar- 

 ried secondly Thomas Bourne, and thirdly Rowland Egerton, 

 Esq., and the Overhouse became their chief residence after 

 the decay of Dale Hall. This lady, usually known as Madam 

 Egerton, died at the Overhouse, at an advanced age, in 

 1756. Catherine Egerton gave to the parish of Burslem 

 the Communion plate, which is still used, and which bears 

 the inscription recording that it is her gift. The property 

 had already passed to Thomas Wedgwood, brother of Josiah, 

 as heir-at-law of her deceased son, John. 



Thomas Wedgwood who married first Isabel Beech, 

 and had by her two sons, John and Thomas, and three 

 daughters, Catherine, Sarah, and Mary married secondly 

 Jane Richards, by whom he had issue two sons, William 

 and John, and a daughter, Jane. He died, it appears, in 

 1772, when the property passed to his son Thomas, who, 

 having married Mary Alsop, had two sons, Thomas and 

 John. He died in 1786, and was succeeded by his son 

 Thomas, who occupied the Overhouse until his death, in 

 1809, when the property was sold by the trustees under his 

 will to Christopher Robinson, who sold it to John Wood, in 

 whose hands it has remained until recently purchased from 

 his representatives by its present owner, Mr. Challinor. 



The " Overhouse Works " were occupied early in the pre- 

 sent century by Messrs. Goodfellow and Bathwell, who were 

 succeeded by Mr. Challinor, by whom they were carried on 

 for some years. They next passed into the occupancy of a 

 manufacturer named Pointon, who in turn was, in 1856, suc- 

 ceeded by Messrs. Morgan, Williams, and Co., and Morgan, 

 Wood, and Co., by whom the works were carried on until 

 1861, when they passed into the hands of the present occu- 

 piers, Messrs. Allman, Broughton, and Co. The productions 

 of these works are the ordinary description of earthenware 

 goods, in services of various kinds, and in the usual classes 



