William EVETT, Glover, of Worcester, England

On March 6, 1672, my 8th great-grandfather William Evett was baptised at St. Albans in Worcester, England. His father was also William Evett. (Was this William a brewer, son of Henry and Isabelle of Woodhall Hallow/Worcester?)

William was a glover, during a time when Worcester surpassed London as the largest gloving centre and the industry reached its peak. Glove-making was Worcester's principal industry from the 16th century until the advent of the porcelain industry in the mid-1700s.

William Evett married Elizabeth WOOD at a Quaker meeting in Worcester 1702. (Elizabeth was a widow, possibly of Timothy Biggs?) The couple had at least one child, our ancestor Mary Evett who married Richard MARCHANT in Worcester in 1723.  Elizabeth must have died by 1710, when William's wife was listed as Alice.

William purchased a large property in Worcester called Warmstry House in 1707.This property was leased in 1751 to a member of a group of businessmen who then converted William Evett's glove-making establishment on part of the property into a porcelain factory. Warmstry House was the site of the first Worcester Porcelain factory, later known as Royal Worcester porcelain. Only the wealthy could afford this porcelain at that time. The factory is now closed, after a sale to Spode and then Portmeiron,  but the Worcester Porcelain Museum remains. The collections date to 1751, and the museum houses archives.

William Evert died in April 1755, leaving the property to his son-in-law Richard Marchant. Marchant eventually sold the Warmstry House property to the Worcester Porcelain company which had continued to lease the property. 

links:
http://www.worcesterporcelainmuseum.org.uk/uploaded/documents/9DrWallandthefirstfact.pdf
http://www.worcesterporcelainmuseum.org.uk/collections/starobjects/index.cfm?factory=drwall objects made in the Warmstry House factory
http://www.worcestercitymuseums.org.uk/mag/spirit/pottery/spp1.htm Warmstry House 1752