William Woodall (1832-1901) MP, gas engineer, pottery manufacturer
c.1832 Born in Shrewsbury son of William and Martha Woodhall, brother of Corbet Woodall
1851 Clerk to Liverpool Gas Co; lived with his parents in West Derby; his father was a gas fitter and tinman[1]
1861 Wm Woodall 29, gas engineer, was living with his mother Martha Ann Woodall, 62, his brother Henry (?) Woodall 22, clerk to gas works, in Burslem[2]
Manager of Burslem Gasworks
Presumably then became a partner in James Macintyre and Co
1869 William Woodall, of Burslem, China and Earthenware Manufacturer, and Louis Henry Macintyre, of Liverpool, were 2 of the executors of James Macintyre, of Burslem, China and Earthen-ware Manufacturer (who died on the 19th day of December,1868)[3]
1871 William Woodall 39, potter, widower, was living with his mother in law, Mary Hughes 63, who was living on rental income with her daughter Elizabeth M Hughes 34, in Burslem[4]
1881 Appointed member of the Royal Commission on Technical Education.
1881 Potter, Manufacturer, Town Councillor, M.P., Magistrate, widower, lived in Burslem[5]
1891 William Woodall 59, earthenware manufacturer, MP, JP, widower, lived in Burslem[6]
1901 of Burslem and London, a china manufacturer when he died in Llandudno; executor was Corbet Woodall, civil engineer[7]