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Thank you Hepburn.
As the text you supplied confirms that James Neale took over the Church Works pottery after Humphrey Palmer.
In August 1762, James Neale married Hannah Heath.
The next piece I find is that "Hannah Neale’s older sister had married the Staffordshire manufacturer Humphrey Palmer". (No children listed in the information). So who is this Hannah Neale? She can't be a daughter of James Neale or she would be way too young for Humphrey. Could she be a sibling to James Neale or Auntie.
Thanks for the link which I didn't have in my Neale & Co folder. It seems that the kind work of the volunteers are running into the same barriers that I did. Just not enough information available but I will continue to search.

Have I missed anything from the information supplied so far? Don't be afraid to let me know.

Was the William Palmer that married my Sarah Turner, the son of the potter Humphrey Palmer. Both were from Hanley.

I have put a lot of questions up here before regarding the pottery family "Turners of Lane End" (Longton) and thought I had had enough about 5 years ago but lets face it enough is never enough.
I have moved my research to the family of John Turners eldest son William and discovered his daughter Sarah b.1806 Longton d.1881 buried Hanley Cem married 1831 a William Palmer timber merchant of Hanley.
I'm looking for the family of this William Palmer to see if he was the son of Humphrey Palmer who is notorious for Copying Wedgwood pieces and was sued by him.
There are several finds for Humphrey Palmer of the Church Works in Hanley but I'm having trouble to find if William Palmer was his son.
It would be interesting to find a marriage link of their children.

I am also looking into the Degg family of Uttoxeter in the year 1762. See my post dated today today in the Staffordshire forum.
I am trying to find this family to ask if they know the whereabouts of a teapot last recorded in 1901. It is marked "M.D. Uttoxeter" beneath the lid and the base has "M. Degg Mar 1762"
I presume the surname is the same family.
Rob

Thank you 'amondg'.
Yes his son "John" who I do not have in my tree applied for his estate which was valued at £100 (from memory).
So who was he???
I have a John listed as b.1803 d.1809 which was mentioned earlier in these replies. Have I missed another birth?
Looking at the 6 children there is a gap in the births from 1807 to 1815 so it is quite possible that there was another birth in that time frame. So if they lost a child named John in 1809 then it is likely that a new son would be called John. That was happening in a previous generation of the Turner line.  Williams father and brother was named John. "If you Google Turner of Lane End" you will find that as potters they were well respected at the time.

Thanks for the death info on Charlotte. It is obvious that the families didn't move around much. I have been lucky enough to have obtained information by a researcher who was writing a book called "Staffordshire Women". Chapter 8 was all about Mary Ann Turner. Here is an extract from her research which she sent me which is where I obtained much of my information.

"They appear in the 1851 and 1861 censuses. In 1851 they just gave the enumerator their initials - daughter `E`, 18, a dressmaker, and sons `W`, 16, `W`, 14, `F`, 12, `J`, 9, `M`, 3 and `H`, 6 months. By 1861 we have the full names - Charlotte is the wife and the children are Elizabeth, William, Walter, John, Martin and Henry - all 10 years older of course. `F` seems to have died or been elsewhere.  Father William was a potter, as were sons William and John. Walter was a `potter`s warehouseman` and Elizabeth was still a dressmaker. The others were `scholars`. As Mary Ann left £550 to Elizabeth and £50 to Martin, listing them as children of her brother William, I`m pretty sure that is the right household. What Mary Ann had against her other nephews I`m not sure - maybe she thought they were doing well enough not to need her money - or maybe she just didn`t like them much!